Postcolonial theory, Indigenous criminology, Southern criminology, and green criminology are relatively “new” areas of criminological discourse that challenge the foundations of what we have come to know as sociological and criminological theory. Criminology as a discipline, originating in the Global North, has a difficult history that has often resulted in the silencing and exclusion of those at the margins and from the Global South. The legacy of this endures to this day. This symposium reckons with this history and explores how this developing body of work is advancing—or not—a more diverse approach to research in criminology, leading to greater inclusivity of voices often excluded by Eurocentric and colonial epistemologies. It asks what it is that we need to do to bridge global divides and address the power imbalances that have privileged the knowledge and policy agendas of the Global North. For it is only by doing this that we— as criminologists and sociologists—can begin to confront the most pressing issues of our time.
Themes: Interrogating the Past | Reckoning with the Present | Interrupting the Curriculum | Challenges for the Future|
Speakers:
Dr Biko Agozino, Virginia Tech.
Dr. Nigel South, University of Essex, UK
Dr. Viviane Saleh-Hanna, U.Mass. Dartmouth
Dr. Marcia Esparza, Historical Memory Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Dr. Alex Vitale, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Dr. Jayne Mooney Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Dr. Albert de la Tierra, San Francisco State University
Angelica Macario, Mayan K'iche from El Quiché, Guatemala, Human rights activist
Dr. Ignasi Bernat, Colonial State Crime and Ecocide, University of Barcelona
Dr. David Brotherton, Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, CUNY
The symposium is a proud collaboration between Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project; Historical Memory Project (HMP), John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Policing and Social Justice Project, Brooklyn College; Department of Sociology; the Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR), John Jay College of Criminal Justice.