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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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2024
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The British journal of criminology
Año: 2024, Volumen: 64, Número: 5, Páginas: 1063-1079 |
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| Sumario: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azae011 |