This conference aims to explore the complexity of
social conflicts and the way in which occupation (military or otherwise) can
lead to the marginalisation
of identifiable groups of people in societies divided by historical and
territorial claims. It will examine the
meaning of going ‘beyond the wire’ or beyond the frontiers of a given conflict. The conference
intends to place deeply embedded social fault lines into context, and
specifically to consider their impact on processes of criminalisation, justice
and social control. The conference organisers
therefore encourage papers that will analyse social division, conflict and resistance
across Europe and beyond. For example,
we welcome consideration of the long term implications of the re-unification of
Germany; the consequences for Eastern European nations following the collapse
of communist states and the Soviet Union; political and community developments
in North of Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement; and the continued conflict
in Palestine and resistance of the Palestinian people.
The conference will seek to examine the manner in
which social divisions and conflicts implicitly or explicitly underpin
definitions of ‘crime’, justice, political constructions of order and
ideologies of the ‘other’. In uncertain
economic and political times, what will be the impact of profound social
divisions on the application of the criminal law? Will the harms of the powerful, corporations
and nation states against humans and non-humans remain relatively
invisible and under-enforced? How might current insecurities and
inequalities impact on policing conflict, unrest and popular resistance? Which identifiable groups are being placed
‘beyond the wire’ and how might deepening social divisions impact on the
marginalization and criminalisation of children, young people, migrants and
minority ethnic groups? What are the dynamics of persistent struggle,
criminalisation and social justice in societies transitioning from conflict?
We welcome papers on a range of issues connected to the theme of ‘Beyond the
Wire': Regulating Division, Conflict and Resistance, grouped under the six streams below.
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Stream
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Potential Topics
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Social divisions and the application of the
criminal law
For further details
contact: Athanasios Chouliaras tchouliaras@hotmail.com
and/or Vicky Vasilantonopoulou vickyvassila@hotmail.com
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Gendered violence
Identity, diversity and criminalisation
Gendered perspectives on social and criminal
policy
The criminalisation of children and young people.
Contemporary anatomo-politics and
bio-politics (incl. gender, sex and sexualities)
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Anti-security
For further details
contact: George Rigakos grigakos@connect.carleton.ca
and/or
Mark Neocleous mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk
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Policing disorder
Domestic and imperial projects of pacification
Police science and political economy
Private policing and the commodification
of security
Warfare in all its guises (class, race,
gender)
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Eco-global
‘crimes’, harms and abuse and consequences for human and nonhuman individuals
and species
For further details
contact: Ragnhild Sollund
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Environmental crimes and harms
The effects of globalisation on environmental
justice and species justice
The criminalisation of green and animal
rights’ movements
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Class, state power and corporate harms
For further details
contact: Steve Tombs
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Analysing ‘crime’ and harm in late capitalism
Corporate crime and financial regulation:
private profits, global contexts and consequences
Truth, knowledge and the corporate state
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The criminalisation
and victimisation of migrants and minority ethnic
communities For further details contact: Stratos
Georgoulas s.georgoulas@soc.aegean.gr and / or Georgios A. Antonopoulos g.antonopoulos@tees.ac.uk
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Border controls and control of migration
Explorations of the neo-colonial and
post-colonial condition
National / transnational exercises of power
Mapping the current scientific and technological
matrix
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Marginalisation, exclusion and social control
For further details
contact: Alejandro Forero Cuellar aleforero@ub.edu
and /or Andrea Beckmann abeckmann@lincoln.ac.uk
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Economic
crisis, uprisings and social control
Relationship between punishment and economic
conditions
The ever-expanding prison system
Marginalisation in societies divided by history and territorial claims
The
criminalization of poverty
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