Lecture 12: Changing rooms and changing rules

Administrative Violence

Systemic harm produced through routine bureaucratic processes, classifications, and eligibility requirements.

Administrative Misalignment

A condition where an individual's lived identity conflicts with institutional records or systems.

Administrative Silence

Institutional avoidance of action regarding identity-based issues, continuing exclusionary practices.

Institutional Misrecognition

The failure of organizations to accurately acknowledge or validate a person's self-identified social identity.

Gender Performativity

The idea that gender is continuously produced through repeated actions rather than existing as a fixed essence.

Double Bind

A situation where contradictory social expectations make it impossible to satisfy all normative demands simultaneously.

Institutional Hyper-Regulation

Intensified monitoring and evaluation of identity expression according to organizational standards.

Spatial Governance

The process through which institutions regulate behavior and identity through the management of physical spaces.

Institutional Silence (Pinder & Harlos)

The failure or refusal of institutions to formally recognize or respond to issues raised by marginalized individuals.

Non-Performative Inclusion

Institutional diversity commitments that exist primarily as symbolic statements without structural change.

Critical Autoethnography as Deviance Research

A research method combining personal experience and sociological analysis to reveal how power regulates deviance.

Legal Liminality

A condition of existing between conflicting legal classifications, resulting in uncertain recognition.

Systemic Inertia

Surface-level legal progress that fails to penetrate rigid bureaucratic school governance.

Transnational Jurisdictional Disjunction

A mismatch between legal or administrative systems across jurisdictions creating contradictory identity statuses.

Institutional Outing

Involuntary disclosure of gender identity or transgender status through organizational records or procedures.

Involuntary Exposure

The non-consensual revelation of personal identity information through institutional processes.

Epistemic Violence

Harm caused when institutional systems invalidate, erase, or deny the legitimacy of lived experiences.

Spatial Exclusion

Restriction of access to spaces through organizational arrangements or policies that disadvantage particular groups.

Spatial Discipline

The use of physical environments and architectural arrangements to regulate behavior and social participation.

Exception Space

A designated alternative location provided to those who do not fit dominant categories, maintaining exclusion.

Spatial Banishment

Separating individuals from ordinary institutional spaces by directing them toward segregated alternatives.

Bodily Withdrawal

Modification or restriction of everyday bodily practices in response to exclusionary environments.

Role Ambiguity

Uncertainty surrounding expectations, responsibilities, or social positioning associated with a particular status.

Pedagogical Adaptation

Modification of teaching strategies to navigate institutional constraints or enhance inclusion.

Powerlessness

A condition where individuals lack sufficient institutional support or resources to protect their interests.

Victim Legibility

The degree to which institutions recognize an individual as a legitimate recipient of protection or justice.

Coerced Silence

Suppression of complaints or self-expression because speaking out carries personal or professional risks.

Intersectional Stratification

Overlapping effects of multiple social inequalities combining to shape opportunities and barriers.

Academic Precarity

Employment insecurity characterized by temporary contracts and dependence on institutional approval.

Socioeconomic Gatekeeping

Restriction of opportunities and rights through financial barriers and unequal access to resources.

Bell hooks Framing

Reclaiming the margin as a location of radical possibility to challenge traditional assumptions.

Transformative Agency

The capacity of individuals to respond to structural constraints in ways that create change or resistance.

Critical Capital

Knowledge and capacities derived from marginalized experiences used to challenge dominant assumptions.

Student Validation

Recognition and affirmation from students that reinforces a teacher's legitimacy and professional identity.

Deviance as Rule-Enforcement

The perspective that deviance is produced through institutional rules rather than existing inherently.

Agency at the Margins

The ability of marginalized individuals to expose institutional limitations and reshape practices.