SOAS is pleased to announce the inaugural conference of “Carceral Policy, Policing and Race” to mark the launch of a new Project, headed by the Rt Hon David Lammy MP.
In the wake of a resurgent Black Lives Matter movement, we have witnessed a renewed dialogue about the salience of race in systems of policing and prisons. However, this has not been translated into a sustained conversation about the global reality of Black, brown and Indigenous internment. Recalibrating a discussion that has been dominated by perspectives from the Global North, the Carceral Policy, Policing and Race Project explores the varying realities – and meanings – of carcerality around the world, and asks how these realities have been shaped by histories of colonialism and slavery. We will adopt a truly comparative framework to connect the carceral experiences of those across the traditional African, Asian and Middle Eastern remit of SOAS to those in Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Grounded in this understanding, the Project will also discuss solutions, forms of resistance and alternative futures. Identifying action that is already being taken, as well as exploring new paths that remain uncharted, the Project will ask what it would mean to “decolonise” systems of criminal justice around the world.
We are launching this Project with an inaugural conference on the 7-8 September 2022, bringing together a wide network of academics, activists and professionals, united by their concerns over the salience of race in systems of prisons, policing and detention.
We are now welcoming the following submissions:
1. Academic/research abstracts. Space will be made for submissions from graduate students and early year academics.
2. Proposals from activists, public servants, practitioners, professionals, lawmakers and those willing to share their experience of incarceration, detention and police repression.
3. Abstracts from authors of recently published or forthcoming books, to be discussed with selected respondents.
Please email your submissions (max. 500 words) to Oly Durose at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] The conference will take place on a hybrid basis, so please detail whether you wish to attend in person or online. We hope to have bursaries available for those who would otherwise not be able to attend. Please provide an additional short statement (max. 200 words) if you would like to apply for this funding. If you would like to discuss any proposals before submitting, or require any further information, please get in touch. The deadline for submissions is Monday 2nd May.
We would be so grateful if you were able to circulate this CfP to anybody who you think may be interested. You can find more information here: https://www.soas.ac.uk/law/research/projects/carceral-policy-policing-and-race/events/07sep2022-call-for-papers--carceral-policy-policing-and-race-conference.html
All the best,
Oly Durose
Policy Fellow
SOAS School of Law
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