Colonial Confessions: an Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa

This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern ways of thinking and being. The aim is to encourage...

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Main Author: Dixon, Bill (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 5, Pages: 1063-1079
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Southern Criminology
decolonial criminology
autoethnography
South Africa
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Summary:This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern ways of thinking and being. The aim is to encourage other criminologists from a similar background to reflect on their histories and the impact of their work in the present, and to be open to ideas from outside the Euro-American mainstream of the discipline. The evolution of South African criminology, and its gradual adoption of a more southern or decolonial sensibility, is traced in the work of the author and others.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azae011