RT Article
T1 Colonial Confessions: an Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 5
SP 1063
OP 1079
A1 Dixon, Bill
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902446976
AB 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.
K1 Southern Criminology
K1 decolonial criminology
K1 autoethnography
K1 South Africa
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae011