British-Irish Section of the European Group
for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
2-4 July, 2008, Liverpool
Hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University
Call for Papers
2008 marks Liverpool's celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of policing and discourses of urban belonging.
Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose - undersides which rarely figure in official and academic discourse. Much of Liverpool and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment, and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing practices of power, justice and the right to the city.
Please submit abstracts of 100-200 words by Thursday May 1st 2008 to any of the following, These people can also be contacted for further details:
Roy Coleman roy.coleman@ liverpool.ac.uk
Lynn Hancock l.hancock@liverpool.ac.uk
Joe Sim j.sim@ljmu.ac.uk
Steve Tombs s.p.tombs@ljmu.ac.uk
Joe Yates j.yates1@ljmu.ac.uk
Dave Whyte david.whyte@liverpool.ac.uk
Booking & information: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/news_and_events.htm
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