In October, 2016,, Vivek Venkatesh presented a talk about the development of an interdisciplinary research program that looks at socio-communal, political and psychological factors impacting the production and dissemination of hate speech in the global extreme metal music scene at CICC, Université de Montréal. Drawing on examples from field observations, interviews, and multi-method content analyses from multiple sources of data, Vivek described how themes of darkness, destruction, self-harm, xenophobia and dystopia blur consumption-related boundaries between musicians, fans, visual artists and journalists in underground extreme metal scenes. Implications for the development of social pedagogical curricula to build criticality and reflexivity in the general public towards issues of discrimination, racism, misogyny and other forms of intolerance are discussed.
To view a recording of the talk, visit the CICC, Université de Montréal event page here or watch it here:
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