Javier Toscano
“Violence: Understanding the elementary forms of social aggression“
Before attempting to end violence, we need to understand how it comes to exist. And for that alone, we need to understand what is it that we experience as violence.
An international war between nation states is an obvious example, but what about the use of slurs in everyday language? Or the denial of historic injustices? Or the consumption of violent-themed music, literature, or films? The interpretation of what violence is entails a great deal of its undoing. In that path, this project examines the sociopolitical processes through which violence is actualized —in the sense that it is both produced and consumed.
This study aims at providing a socio-philosophical account of the manner in which everyday life is transformed in the engagement with violence.
PhD in Philosophy, an interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of political philosophy, visual sociology, and migrant studies. His work has involved a continuous search to understand and collaborate with minorities, communities, and groups with disabilities toward the production of practice-based knowledge, while considering narratives of self-affirmation and vital exploration. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and was awarded the Mouton d’Or Prize in 2019 from the Semiotica Journal, for the best article on the field that year.