Cambridge Decolonising Criminology Network

We’re back with our seminar series! Join us on Fri, 11 Apr at 12 pm (UK) for Shivangi Narayan’s talk on Tech Policing in India—exploring how logics of extractivism and control persist from colonial rule to today’s algorithmic surveillance. Register now:👉 tinyurl.com/cdcntalk

What role does the issue of race play in understanding the question of Palestine? Join @ayca_cu next month at this @LSELaw event, which will focus on the colonisation of Palestine as something which cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. buff.ly/DvRisXJ

There's still time to register for Wednesday's online workshop. All welcome!

Just finished - brilliant! A fantastic book, highlighting the powerful, and often dark, work done by terms such as “pre-history”, “civilisation”, and “barbarism” throughout history.

I wrote about the presence of anti-colonial rhetoric in global right-wing discourse for @kafila. I argue that the similarities between anti-colonial and right-wing arguments are only prima facie. Details reveal the farce: kafila.online/2025/09/15/ant…

Dirty research: A call towards decolonial urban knowledge production Tanzil Shafique Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/136048…

JOB: Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow. Full-time, fixed term (5 year) post in a collegiate team which is part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research @TheSCCJR #Criminology #ECRchat jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD973/lec…

Decolonization is not a vibe. Excellent article by Tanja Bosch published in Media, Culture & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

#OpenAccess The Dutch and English East India Companies Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia eds. Adam Clulow, Tristan Mostert. Amsterdam Univ Pr 2019 bibliopen.org/p/bopen/978904… PDF 🎯 bibliopen.org/p/bopen/978904…

🚨New Publication w/Brian Stults.🚨 We incorporate race into institutional anomie theory. Race, Institutions, and American Homicide: A Du Boisian Test of Institutional Anomie Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21…

#Newbooks #BorderBooks 📗From #Frontiers to #Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality 🖋️ Kerry Goettlich 🗓️ August 2025 🏢 Cambridge University Press 🔎 cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project! 🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug) 🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug) 📍 Hosted at @NLSIUofficial with @onneshaghosh Apply & share! nls.ac.in/news-and-event…

How has the normative turn in social science affected our ability to produce and use theory? Using a case study of punishment studies during/after the normative turn, I find authors are mistaking normativity for theory. Published today in @Theory_Society! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨The Architecture of Whiteness: How institutional whiteness shapes academic careers in the UK🚨 For all those who had an issue with my use of “whiteness” as a term, please feel free to read my published thesis and let me know your thoughts Have at it: repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesi…

Happy to share the new editorial and series on Feminist Intellectual Traditions from South Asia. As part of the larger conversation ⁦@TheNewHistoria⁩ ⁦@TheNewSchool⁩, engaging with intellectual history from gendered lens. thenewhistoria.org/editorial/us-a…

🗣️The Changing Landscape of Immigration Detention: A Case Study from Southern Europe with Cristina Fernández-Bessa, University of A Coruña. 🕓 30 April, 4pm (UK time) Online 👉 Register bit.ly/43YaZln #bordercriminology #immigration #detention #UNL #SCCJR

2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 16/07/25. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou

What if the biggest challenge to decolonisation is not forgetting — but misrecognising colonialism itself? Join us for a webinar on May 2, 2 pm (BST) with Mark Brown who will speak on "Decolonisation and Misrecognition: Reflections from Colonial Penality" tinyurl.com/dcnwebinar

We’re back with our seminar series! Join us on Fri, 11 Apr at 12 pm (UK) for Shivangi Narayan’s talk on Tech Policing in India—exploring how logics of extractivism and control persist from colonial rule to today’s algorithmic surveillance. Register now:👉 tinyurl.com/cdcntalk

📣NEW PUBLICATION📣 Title: ‘The De/Construction of Identity: The Complexities of Loss and Separation for Mixed-Race Britain’ It is OPEN ACCESS so you can read it here now! Please do let me know your thoughts and feedback! mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/2/… #mixed #race #woke

"On the Semicivilized" by Julia Elyachar @JElyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. Check out the intro for free! #Anthropology buff.ly/QMdzLqM