Colonialism in Africa

Murhula, Patrick Bashizi Bashige; Chivasa, Norman

doi:10.4324/9781003004424-8

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“…The implications of this orientation within mainstream criminology are bound up with the production of knowledge around race and criminal justice within the discipline. This orientation has also been acknowledged elsewhere by scholars such as Agozino (2004), Bempah-Owusu & Gabbidon (2020), Murhula & Chivasa (2020), Dastile & Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2020), Henson et al (2023) and many others, who have drawn attention to criminology itself as a colonial project. Within this understanding, much of the foundation for criminology as a discipline is bound up with what colonial powers viewed as "the civilizing mission" of coloniality (Murhula & Chivasa 2020: 61).…”

Section: Mainstream Criminology Whiteness and The Colonial Projectmentioning

confidence: 69%

Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice

Glynn,

Breen

2024

Crit Crim

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This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology. Russell (2022) has previously called for the development of ‘Black criminology’, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) further argued that there is a need to develop ‘minority perspectives’ within mainstream criminology. In allyship with these traditions, this article applies a Critical Race Theory lens to provide a rationale for a new criminological perspective presented here as Critical Race Criminology (CRC). CRC is applied here to demonstrate the necessity for centring on ‘race and the racialization of crime’ within the discipline of criminology specifically, and within a global context more widely. It further calls for the development and articulation of a ‘counter narrative’ around race and crime within the discipline of criminology itself. Achieving this requires transcending the binary of the Global North–South divide, moving towards a unifying ‘Critical Race Criminology’ (CRC).

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Section: Mainstream Criminology Whiteness and The Colonial Projectmentioning

confidence: 69%

Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice

Glynn,

Breen

2024

Crit Crim

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“…Postcolonial theory 56,57,58,59 rests on the premise that (1) a grasp of the history of colonial rule is necessary for understanding colonized territories; (2) colonization was for the benefit of the colonizers and not for the benefit of the colonized; and (3) the impact of colonization extends beyond the end of official colonization. This article uses insights from postcolonial theory 56,57,58,59 to shed light on the contemporary North-South divide that the British colonizers created in 1914.…”

Section: Postcolonial Theorymentioning

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Tweets and Reactions: Revealing the Geographies of Cybercrime Perpetrators and the North-South Divide

Lazarus

Button

2022

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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How do tweets reflect the long-standing disparities between the northern and southern regions of Nigeria? This study presents a qualitative analysis of Twitter users' responses (n = 101,518) to the tweets of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) regarding the production and prosecution of cybercrime. The article uses postcolonial perspectives to shed light on the legacies of British colonial efforts in Nigeria, such as the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 1914. The results revealed significant discrepancies between Nigeria's northern and southern regions regarding cybercriminal arrest, conviction, and sentencing. Specifically, the results showed that the EFCC's criminalization of Southerners differs substantially from that of Northerners. The contemporary manifestation of inequalities concerning the production and prosecution of cybercrime on Twitter reflects long-standing contestations (e.g., economic, political, cultural, geological) between the northern and southern parts of Nigerian society. Therefore, since the North-South divide in present-day Nigeria originated from British colonization, colonialism is the base that shaped the superstructure comprising political, religious, historical, geological (e.g., crude oil), and economic factors. In turn, the article spotlights that regional differences in educational attainment, originating from differing experiences of Christianization and colonization, interact with regional disparities in the production of cybercrime. More research is required to better understand how these contextual disparities in society interact with the production and prosecution of cybercrime, given that Nigerian cybercriminals defraud victims all over the world.

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The Food Crisis in Kenya

Woldesmiate¹,

Cox²

2019

Agrarian Reform in Reverse

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Colonialism in Africa

Cited by 3 publications

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Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice

Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice

Tweets and Reactions: Revealing the Geographies of Cybercrime Perpetrators and the North-South Divide

The Food Crisis in Kenya

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