University:
University College London
Course:
LAWS0035 | Criminology
Academic year:

2024
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491

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2
Author:

Nam B.

Punishment in Global Peripheries: Contemporary Changes and Historical Continuities Presented by: Dr. Piacentini Date: 25 June, 2022 Introduction - A valid regime • 'The power to name things is the power to organize and give meaning to experience and, further, that all interaction entails a form of symbolic domination' (Bourdieu, 2013: 77). - The 'politico social body, of the People-as- One' (Holquist, 2003: 32). • 'Gulag, just like the non-Gulag, was neither socially nor economically homogenous...and that it is no exaggeration to say that the more "benign" spheres of the Gulag converged with the cruder spheres of the non-Gulag' (Khlevniuk, 2015:484). - The obsession with 'exceptionalism' • 'The emergence or demise of different penal practices cannot be ascribed to the ideas of reformers: penal change is ultimately determined by the conditions of labor and the labor market'(De Giorgi, 2013: 43).  The dominance of trans-national political ideology.  Linguistic colonialism.  The obligation to articulate, ground and deploy of 'western research methods' for many decades,  Pre-occupation with the 'turn'. In The Gulag's Shadow And The Question Of Penal Porosity (Piacentini, 2004, Slade, 2018) - Contemporary changes • Significant decarcerating rates • Some major reform practices - • Designing" Human rights as policy • Justice-facing CJ institutions Historical continuities • The thriving Polyptoton (Piacentini & Slade, 2015) • Penal leitmotifs • Weak civil society means lockdown to access to advocacy • Penal authoritarianism - shorthand for suffering Why not Russia - 'Penal reforms, however innovative, rarely emerge fully formed' (Rubin, 2017:193). - 'More than an accidental, temporary overlap, the coexistence of old and new played an active role enabling the post-Soviet order to take shape; the past gave a hidden subsidy to the present' (Wood, 2019: 82). What Is 'Comparative Neglect'? - (Jackman and Miller, 1996: 633) • 'The political culture approach needs to be recast in institutional terms that more directly acknowledge the role of political considerations in explaining performance'