Michaelmas Term 2023 Update
We have this term laid some more foundations for the next stage in the work of the Global Criminal Justice Hub. The Centre has signed research and teaching collaboration agreements with the Criminology group in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. Ian Loader is pictured at the signing of the agreement at the Tata Institute below.
The Global Criminal Justice Hub together with the Southernising Criminology discussion group also organized a seminar series on the Political Economy of Global Criminal Justice featuring three key events in Michaelmas Term. In the first talk, Prof. Christine Schwöbel-Patel explored with us the extractive nature of green capitalism through her concept of legal pipelines using the example of the unjust transition in Greenland. If you missed the talk, please check out an excellent blog post by our MSc students Aydin Orberk and Sophia Kjeldbjerg about the talk. In the second seminar, Dr Elena Butti took us to the streets of Medellín in Colombia where she conducted ethnographic fieldwork with youth gangs to interrogate the complex interplay of friendship, individualism and marketisation. In the final talk, Dr Robert Knox showed us the deep connections between ecocide, capitalism and racialization, arguing that the creation of an international crime of ecocide obscures the normal ecocidal operation of global capitalism.
You can watch the recordings of these talks.