MIT’s Catherine D’Ignazio, writing in Academe Blog: “Political scholar Ruth Blakeley writes that “state terrorism should be understood as a threat or act of violence by agents of the state that is designed to induce fear in a target audience, so that they are coerced into changing their behavior in some way.” What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to “send a message”—to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior.” Read the full commentary here.
PERSPECTIVES: Understanding Threats to Higher Education as “State Terrorism”
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