Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting.
The School of Social Science at Liverpool Hope University is hosting a free one day conference 'Theorising Sites of Discipline in Society', sponsored by the British Society of Criminology Northwest Consortium and Liverpool Hope University on Wedneday, 23rd May.
There has been growing interest within criminology and across the social sciences more widely in the diffusion of disciplinary techniques and institutions throughout society. These techniques range from the more subtle as exhibited by the development of the Behavioural Insights Team (or nudge unit) under the Coalition Government and the associated shift towards an increasingly penal welfare state, to the hardening of responses in more traditional institutions in the carceral state and beyond. This one-day conference intends to critically examine the growing influence of some of these techniques and institutions and their impact upon vulnerable and marginalized populations as well as their wider ramifications for society as a whole. Themes which we intend to address during the day’s discussion include: the role of the military in disciplining marginalized populations; the disciplining of refugee and migratory groups in the ‘Jungles’ of Northern Europe; the problems posed by imprisonment upon those seeing to desist from crime; the associated role of society as a site of discipline for those facing the stigma of criminal records and Disclosure and Barring Service checks; and shifting sites of discipline in contemporary mental health and penal welfare policy reform.
Speakers include:
Dr Emily Hart (University of Liverpool)
Developing a ‘Critical Desistance’: The harms of imprisonment and the search for a ‘real utopia’
Dr Andrew Henley (Keele University)
Criminal records checks and the regulation of redemption: a delegation of the power to punish?
Dr Rich Moth (Liverpool Hope University)
From psychiatric abuse to psycho-compulsion: shifting sites of discipline in contemporary mental health and welfare policy reform
Dr Zaki Nahaboo (Liverpool Hope University)
Disciplining refuge in The Calais Jungle
Hannah Wilkinson (Keele University)
The military as a continuation site of discipline and conflict: ‘it was either join the army, or go to jail’
Spaces are limited, so if you are interested in attending, please register via the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theorising-sites-of-discipline-in-society-one-day-conference-tickets-43545367366
Best wishes,
Ian
Dr Ian Mahoney
Lecturer in Criminology
School of Social Science
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool
L16 9JD
Tel: 0151 291 3553
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Twitter: @mahoney787
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