School violence is a daily reality for many in China and remains a significant issue globally. Recent extreme cases of school violence in China have amplified public and governmental concern, prompting a robust response from educational and legal authorities, including the implementation of various anti-bullying and anti-violence policies. Theoretical reflection on the relationship between the school space and violence is essential to understand why, how and to what effect schools suffer from various kinds of violence; however, this is an area yet to be thoroughly explored. This chapter argues for a critical geography of Chinese school violence by pointing to an epistemological transformation of school space which treats school not just as containers for state policy, but as situated moments that must be thoroughly problematized and expounded in their own right to understand state securitization and the trivial and banal violence embedded in everyday life. We argue that school violence in China is intimately related to the fear in school that defines the nexus between school and violence and the spatiality therein: the landscape (of securitization), continuum (of violence), and network (of social support). This hybridized perspective helps us to simultaneously explore the processes through which school violence proliferates and the specific forms in which it comes to be perceived, experienced and lived in the Chinese school.

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Navigating Safety and Security: The Complex Landscape of Chinese Schools

  • Tianyang Liu,
  • Zhenjie Yuan

摘要

School violence is a daily reality for many in China and remains a significant issue globally. Recent extreme cases of school violence in China have amplified public and governmental concern, prompting a robust response from educational and legal authorities, including the implementation of various anti-bullying and anti-violence policies. Theoretical reflection on the relationship between the school space and violence is essential to understand why, how and to what effect schools suffer from various kinds of violence; however, this is an area yet to be thoroughly explored. This chapter argues for a critical geography of Chinese school violence by pointing to an epistemological transformation of school space which treats school not just as containers for state policy, but as situated moments that must be thoroughly problematized and expounded in their own right to understand state securitization and the trivial and banal violence embedded in everyday life. We argue that school violence in China is intimately related to the fear in school that defines the nexus between school and violence and the spatiality therein: the landscape (of securitization), continuum (of violence), and network (of social support). This hybridized perspective helps us to simultaneously explore the processes through which school violence proliferates and the specific forms in which it comes to be perceived, experienced and lived in the Chinese school.