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What can Southern Criminology Contribute to a Post-Race Agenda?

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Drawing on Raewyn Connell’s Southern Theory (2007), Carrington et al. (British Journal of Criminology, 56(1), 1–20, 2015) have called for a de-colonization and democratization of criminological knowledge, which, they argue, has privileged the epistemologies of the global North. Taking up the challenge of “southern criminology,” in this paper we examine the concept of race as a political artifact of northern thinking. The idea of race is durable in criminology. To illustrate this, we examine the racialization of Aboriginal Australians. Given the relationship between processes of racialization and criminalization, criminology should avoid engaging in practices which produce or reinforce racial schema. Further, with reference to southern epistemologies, we offer an alternative construct of human difference and diversity grounded in discourses of belonging specific to Australasian cultures.

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Scott, J.G., Fa’avale, A. & Thompson, B.Y. What can Southern Criminology Contribute to a Post-Race Agenda?. Asian Criminology 13, 155–173 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-017-9263-8

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