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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*PUNISHMENT IN GLOBAL PERIPHERIES: CONTEMPORARY CHANGES AND HISTORICAL
CONTINUITIES*
24-25 June 2021, University of Oxford*
Coordinated by
Luiz Dal Santo (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Máximo Sozzo (National University of Litoral, Argentina)
Scholars from the most varied subjects within Social Sciences and the
Humanities have increasingly highlighted how dominant knowledge is
fundamentally developed from the experiences of core countries. The
realities of peripheral countries have long been overlooked and, at best,
reduced to sources of data. This scenario is not different in the
Punishment and Society field. Though the number of comparative studies on
punishment has increased since the 2000s, this scholarship has failed to
integrate peripheral countries into the debate, concentrating in a small
number of countries of the Global north. Very little attention has been
paid to Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern European
countries, for instance. Yet very significant experiences are taking place
in these settings. Among the 50 highest imprisonment rates, only one is of
a ‘central’ country – the USA. On the other hand, many Eastern European
countries and states that were part of the USSR in the 20th century have
experienced a significant trend of decreasing imprisonment rates in the
last 20 years.1 Understanding punishment trends and patterns beyond the so
called ‘Western democracies’ or ‘advanced-economy countries’ is therefore a
necessary step for developing and deepening punishment and society research
and theory.
This workshop is a response to the historical Northern, Western-centric
feature of criminology and the unequal relations of subordination and
dependency which has shaped the production of knowledge in the field. It
aims to bring contemporary changes and historical continuities in punishment
in peripheral countries into the centre of the discussion. We welcome
contributions
which engage with punishment at peripheral contexts, broadly speaking, and
shed light into the complexities of penal trends in these societies, both
in relation to change but also persistence,
1 As per the data showed by the World Prison Brief. Available at
*https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-*
<https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?f...
*lowest/prison-population-total?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All*.
<https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison-population-total?f...
on 18 Nov 2020.
describing and explaining them from different methodological and theoretical
perspectives. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the
legacies of imperialism and colonialism in order to understand contemporary
penality in postcolonial contexts as well as the importance of travels from
the central countries of penal ideas and techniques that influenced penal
practices in peripheral contexts.
Submission of abstracts:
If you want to present a paper, please send an abstract of up to 500 words
by *22 March 2021 *to *luiz.dalsanto(a)crim.ox.ac.uk*
<luiz.dalsanto(a)crim.ox.ac.uk> and *delitoysociedad(a)unl.edu.ar*,
<delitoysociedad(a)unl.edu.ar> with your name and affiliation. Decisions
shall be communicated by 29 March 2021.
*Given the current uncertainties, we cannot anticipate whether the event
will be held in a hybrid format, where the workshop would partially take
place on-site in the University of Oxford, or fully online. We are now
arranging this to be in a hybrid format, so participants can decide between
coming in-person or participating online. We will keep this under review,
and updated information will be given by March 2021.
This workshop is co-hosted by the Global Criminal Justice Hub of the
Oxford Centre for Criminology (United Kingdom), and the Programa Delito y
Sociedad, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina).
