Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?

Phillips, Coretta; Earle, Rod; Parmar, Alpa; Smith, Daniel R.

doi:10.1177/1362480619880345

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“…However, Social Policy is not alone in its failure to decolonise its knowledge. Criminology, development studies, economics, migration studies, political science, and sociology have all now produced reports similar to Craig et al's (2019) (Hesse, 2014;Bhambra, 2015;Erel et al, 2016;McClain et al, 2016;CSMGEP, 2019;Pailey, 2020;Phillips et al, 2020).…”

Section: Organisational Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching

Phillips¹,

Williams²

2021

Social Policy and Society

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Research-led teaching is the sine qua non of the 21st century university. To understand its possibilities for teaching and learning about race in Social Policy requires, as a first step, interrogating the epistemological and theoretical core of the discipline, as well as its organisational dynamics. Using parts of Emirbayer and Desmond’s (2012) framework of disciplinary reflexivity, this article traces the discipline’s habits of thought but also its lacunae in the production of racial knowledge. This entails focusing on its different forms of institutionalised and epistemological whiteness, and what has shaped the omission or marginalisation of a full understanding of the racialisation of welfare subjects and regimes in the discipline. Throughout, the article offers alternative analyses and thinking that fully embrace the historical and contemporary role of race, racism, and nation in lived realities, institutional processes, and global racial orders. It concludes with pointers towards a re-envisioning of Social Policy, within a framework in which postcolonial and intersectional theory and praxis are championed. Only then might a decolonised curriculum be possible in which race is not peripheral to core teaching and learning.

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Section: Organisational Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching

Phillips¹,

Williams²

2021

Social Policy and Society

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“…Nigel South is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. 6 Critical race theory (CRT) could also potentially be of use for this project, since it focuses on how 'race' is constructed, on how racial power is sustained (Crenshaw et al 1995) and on how racial categories are constitutive in social life (Phillips et al 2020). However, this framework-as it has developed-has actually been mainly concerned with addressing (1) discrimination logics and practices against black populations and (2) how legal institutions and legal culture sustain and reinforce systemic racism, particularly in the United States of America (Crenshaw et al 1995) and, as Cunneen and Tauri (2017: 9) assert, has 'largely sidelined the Indigenous experience' and populations of the global south (Carrington et al 2017;Carrington et al 2019;Connell 2007).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Worlds and Criminological Exclusion: A Call to Reorientate the Criminological Compass

Goyes

South

2021

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Indigenous peoples, their cultures and territories, have been subjected to continuous victimisation, plunder and genocide throughout history—or at least ‘history’ as created by and written from the North. Since contact with colonisers, these many different peoples have suffered legal and illegal forms of direct, structural and symbolic violence. Meanwhile, criminology—the discipline concerned with studying instances of criminality, harm and victimisation—has largely remained untouched by or indifferent to serious crimes and systematic attacks that have increased mortality, denied rights and destroyed traditional ways of life. In this article, we first present a bibliographical analysis of relevant content in leading criminology journals. We then suggest a conceptual and theoretical basis for enhancing an ethical and non-colonial engagement with this underdeveloped field of work. We conclude, however, that to counter the under-representation of Indigenous explorations and contributors in criminology, a broader transformation of the discipline will be necessary.

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“…Within these processes and discourses, ideas of difference, threat and danger condensed to embody the criminal subject, which in turn traveled and formed the staple to define and deal with colonial subjects -and vice-versa. While much has been written on the extent to which crime and criminalization have historically served as tools for social oppression, less attention has been paid to the racialized nature of the criminal question, a gap that until very recently has remained largely unaddressed (Phillips et al, 2020). Particularly in European criminology, 'the problem of race' has been either completely neglected or subsumed into the 'problem of class'.…”

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Decolonizing the criminal question

Aliverti¹,

Carvalho²,

Chamberlen

et al. 2021

Punishment & Society

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In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from the intimate relationship between colonialism and punishment that directly challenge the persistent neglect of these dimensions in mainstream criminological scholarship. We aim to foreground the relevance of this relationship to contemporary enquiries. We highlight that decolonization did not dismantle the colonial roots of the cultural, social and political mechanisms informing contemporary punishment. They are still very much part of criminal justice practice and are thus also central to criminological knowledge productions.

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Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?

Cited by 33 publications

References 96 publications

Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching

Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching

Indigenous Worlds and Criminological Exclusion: A Call to Reorientate the Criminological Compass

Decolonizing the criminal question

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