RT Article
T1 East is East?: Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 3
SP 521
OP 537
A1 Piacentini, Laura
A2 Slade, Gavin 1980-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1892105578
AB This paper identifies an absence in currently constituted criminological discourse on the Global North and Global South. This absence is the Global East. The Global East is not a defined region but a relation of betweenness, geographically and geo-politically, within and between the South and North, representing peoples from countries and societies which fit imperfectly into a North/South binary. We focus on the Eastern European and Eurasian regions to demonstrate this point, concentrating specifically on its omission in punishment and society studies. Our paper makes a positive argument for the Global East concept, disrupting the assumed categories of North and South and producing a strategic essentialism to help better represent peoples thus far overlooked in southern criminology.
DO 10.1093/bjc/azad048