Will Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 243495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7464-1615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Lesbians and Policing Project: Police monitoring in defence of dangerous lesbian-ness in 1980s London
This article provides a case study of The Lesbians and Policing Project [LesPop], a police monitoring organisation that existed in London between 1984 and 1990. Drawing on archives held at Glasgow Women's Library, the article reviews the activities of LesPop and outlines its aims and objectives. We consider both its origins and its demise in the political context of Britain in the 1980s. In doing so, we argue that LesPop offers an important, and …
Playing the game? A criminological account of the making and sharing of Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence
This article reflects on the production and dissemination of Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence. Probationary is an artwork in the form of a board game that takes its players on a journey as they navigate the complexities of the probation process. This article explores the interdisciplinary collaborations that underpinned both the making and the sharing of the game and examines the benefits and challenges of working with stakeholders in th…
Out of place: Women’s experiences of policing in protest spaces
This article considers women’s experiences of policing at anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, which took place between November 2013 and April 2014. Specifically, the article examines the spatial dynamics of the policing of women and argues that the policing of protest demands feminist analysis. Drawing upon narratives collected from women protesters at Barton Moss, which explore experiences of sexual violence perpetrated by police, w…
Immoral Habits: Delinquent White Girls in 1920s Cape Town and the Distribution of Blame
In much recent historical writing on the history of South African child welfare considerable emphasis has been placed on the poor white problem. The development of child welfare is typically seen as part of the wider project to uplift so-called ‘poor whites’. This article builds on this literature by focusing on one particular aspect of South African child welfare work – the attempt to discipline ‘uncontrollable’ youth. Case histories pertaining …
Researching the policed: Critical ethnography and the study of protest policing
This article seeks to consider the value of critical ethnography for the study of policing. Specifically, the article explores the benefits and challenges of using ethnographic methods to explore protest policing from the perspective of the policed. Drawing upon a longitudinal study of the policing of protests against ‘fracking’ in England, the article examines the process of conducting research with groups who are being policed in extended prote…
Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests
In recent years public order policing policy in England and Wales has undergone significant changes. A ‘human rights compliant’ model of protest policing has been developed since 2009 and this article makes a contribution to the body of academic work considering the impact of these changes on operational policing. Drawing upon a longitudinal case study of the policing of protests against ‘fracking’ in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 2013–14, the …
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 133–134
No Country for Old Men: The Life of John Lee and the Problem of the Aged Pioneer
This article uses a charity appeal made on behalf of one old white man in South Africa in 1912 as an entry into considering the importance of age for social histories of empire – and for settler colonialism in particular. John Lee, aged eighty-five when he made his appeal, demanded the restitution of a piece of land he claimed to have been given by an African king and, to gain public sympathy, had his life story published in the local press. The …
Gender, power and sexual abuse in the Pacific: Rev Simpson's improper liberties
The Shame of Not Belonging: Navigating Failure in the Colonial Petition, South Africa 1910–1961
This essay examines letters of petition sent by failed white settlers in South Africa to the British Governor General. These letters comprise a particular discursive genre that combine aspects of both private and public. The key to their success was controlled emotion: petitioners had to present their distress in such a way as to excite the exercise of compassion. Allowing subversive or stray emotions to enter a letter was bound to undermine a pe…
The Private Lives of Empire: Emotion, Intimacy, and Colonial Rule
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Unmistakable Trace of Colour: Racializing Children in Segregation-Era Cape Town, 1908-1933
This article uses the extensive case records of South Africa’s first child welfare society – the Society for the Protection of Child Life (SPCL) – as the means to rethink how race has been constituted within families and communities in colonial contexts. It uses the idea of an ‘unmistakable trace of colour’ as a way to considering the importance of doubt in the Society’s case records. In a context with a long history of racial mixing, judging rac…
Madness and Marginality: The Lives of Kenya's White Insane
‘No ordinary chaps’: Class, gender and the licensing of transgression
This chapter traces the social history of deviance amongst Europeans in colonial Kenya. In order to contain deviance within manageable bounds, it argues, a practical project of social control was combined with a discursive neutralisation of what might otherwise bring colonial rule into disre¬pute. Combining attention to cultural production with analysis of social control mechanisms reveals the salience of gender and class in the protection of a s…
Madness and marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane
Kenya Colony, for the British at least, has customarily been imagined as a place of wealthy settler-farmers, sun-lit panoramas and the adventure of safari. Yet for the majority of Europeans who went there life was very different. This book offers an unprecedented new account of what was – supposedly – the most picturesque of Britain's colonies overseas. While Kenya's romantic reputation has served to perpetuate the notion that Europeans enjoyed u…
The Settler’s Demise: Decolonization and Mental Breakdown in 1950s Kenya
Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880–1963
Settler colonialism in Kenya was both exemplary and aberrant. Here we encounter several of the defining characteristics of the settler colony as classically defined but encounter no less significant anomalies: a uniquely self-regarding settler culture; an intensely conflicted set of relations linking settlers to the state; a powerful and seemingly pervasive strain of fantasy in settler discourse that worked to conjure not just Kenya but a mythic …
Subverting Empire
Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the fir
Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal
In colonial settings, nothing was as dangerous to racialised social hierarchies as sexual contact between ‘white’ and ‘black’. 1 While Africans and Asians were constructed as — variously — rapacious, lascivious, hyper-sexed or diseased, Europeans who had sex with so-called ‘natives’ were perceived not only as culpable for the emergence of mixed-race populations but also as betraying a profound lack of racial feeling — to be recognised as white re…
Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World
Introduction: Thinking with Deviance
Colonialism was invested in the performance of power — from the pomp and ceremony of the imperial durbars to the everyday interactions of performed superiorities. The basic legitimating idea behind empire was the notion that the colonisers were superior to the colonised, whether that be in the form of unique access to the means of production, supposedly democratic systems of governance or those racial and cultural registers of difference that jus…
Pacifying Disruptive Subjects
This article considers the policing of protests against “fracking” at Barton Moss, Salford, Greater Manchester between November 2013 and April 2014. The article seeks to make sense of the policing response to the protest camp established at the Barton Moss site and to consider what the policing of anti-fracking protests reveals about state responses to resistance in the current era. The article begins by sketching out the background to fracking i…
Dangers to the Colony: Loose women and the "poor white" problem in Kenya
While a great deal of recent scholarship has focused on the problematic presence of so-called "poor whites" across the European colonial empires, comparatively little work has tackled their presence in Kenya. In part this may be explained by the force of Kenya's contemporary reputation as a destination for socialites and aristocrats. Yet it also reflects the fact that, until 1939, attempts by authorities to minimise the "poor white" presence succ…
Bad Blood: Poverty, Psychopathy and the Politics of Transgression in Kenya Colony, 1939-59
This article examines the inter-relationship between psychiatry and sex, both fertile fields within the recent historiography of colonialism and empire. Using a series of case files pertaining to European patients admitted to the Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi during the 1940s and 1950s, this article shows how sexual transgression among colonial Europeans precipitated, and was combined with, mental distress. Considering psychiatric treatment …
White man's country: Kenya Colony and the making of a myth
This article explains the cultural construction of Kenya Colony. It does so by combining two related histories – those of international tourism and of colonial rule – and two key explanatory themes – those of crisis and of commodity. The cultural construction of the colony, the article argues, emerged from two decisive moments: the "Indian crisis" of the early 1920s and the Mau Mau Emergency of the 1950s. Its content, meanwhile, was determined by…
Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests
In recent years public order policing policy in England and Wales has undergone significant changes. A ‘human rights compliant’ model of protest policing has been developed since 2009 and this article makes a contribution to the body of academic work considering the impact of these changes on operational policing. Drawing upon a longitudinal case study of the policing of protests against ‘fracking’ in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 2013–14, the …
White man's country: Kenya Colony and the making of a myth
This article explains the cultural construction of Kenya Colony. It does so by combining two related histories – those of international tourism and of colonial rule – and two key explanatory themes – those of crisis and of commodity. The cultural construction of the colony, the article argues, emerged from two decisive moments: the "Indian crisis" of the early 1920s and the Mau Mau Emergency of the 1950s. Its content, meanwhile, was determined by…
Dangers to the Colony: Loose women and the "poor white" problem in Kenya
While a great deal of recent scholarship has focused on the problematic presence of so-called "poor whites" across the European colonial empires, comparatively little work has tackled their presence in Kenya. In part this may be explained by the force of Kenya's contemporary reputation as a destination for socialites and aristocrats. Yet it also reflects the fact that, until 1939, attempts by authorities to minimise the "poor white" presence succ…
The Private Lives of Empire: Emotion, Intimacy, and Colonial Rule
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Bad Blood: Poverty, Psychopathy and the Politics of Transgression in Kenya Colony, 1939-59
This article examines the inter-relationship between psychiatry and sex, both fertile fields within the recent historiography of colonialism and empire. Using a series of case files pertaining to European patients admitted to the Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi during the 1940s and 1950s, this article shows how sexual transgression among colonial Europeans precipitated, and was combined with, mental distress. Considering psychiatric treatment …
Empathic ability in normals and schizophrenics
Researching the policed: Critical ethnography and the study of protest policing
This article seeks to consider the value of critical ethnography for the study of policing. Specifically, the article explores the benefits and challenges of using ethnographic methods to explore protest policing from the perspective of the policed. Drawing upon a longitudinal study of the policing of protests against ‘fracking’ in England, the article examines the process of conducting research with groups who are being policed in extended prote…
An Unmistakable Trace of Colour: Racializing Children in Segregation-Era Cape Town, 1908-1933
This article uses the extensive case records of South Africa’s first child welfare society – the Society for the Protection of Child Life (SPCL) – as the means to rethink how race has been constituted within families and communities in colonial contexts. It uses the idea of an ‘unmistakable trace of colour’ as a way to considering the importance of doubt in the Society’s case records. In a context with a long history of racial mixing, judging rac…
Immoral Habits: Delinquent White Girls in 1920s Cape Town and the Distribution of Blame
In much recent historical writing on the history of South African child welfare considerable emphasis has been placed on the poor white problem. The development of child welfare is typically seen as part of the wider project to uplift so-called ‘poor whites’. This article builds on this literature by focusing on one particular aspect of South African child welfare work – the attempt to discipline ‘uncontrollable’ youth. Case histories pertaining …
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 133–134
Empathic ability in normals and schizophrenics
Bad Blood: Poverty, Psychopathy and the Politics of Transgression in Kenya Colony, 1939-59
This article examines the inter-relationship between psychiatry and sex, both fertile fields within the recent historiography of colonialism and empire. Using a series of case files pertaining to European patients admitted to the Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi during the 1940s and 1950s, this article shows how sexual transgression among colonial Europeans precipitated, and was combined with, mental distress. Considering psychiatric treatment …
White man's country: Kenya Colony and the making of a myth
This article explains the cultural construction of Kenya Colony. It does so by combining two related histories – those of international tourism and of colonial rule – and two key explanatory themes – those of crisis and of commodity. The cultural construction of the colony, the article argues, emerged from two decisive moments: the "Indian crisis" of the early 1920s and the Mau Mau Emergency of the 1950s. Its content, meanwhile, was determined by…
Dangers to the Colony: Loose women and the "poor white" problem in Kenya
While a great deal of recent scholarship has focused on the problematic presence of so-called "poor whites" across the European colonial empires, comparatively little work has tackled their presence in Kenya. In part this may be explained by the force of Kenya's contemporary reputation as a destination for socialites and aristocrats. Yet it also reflects the fact that, until 1939, attempts by authorities to minimise the "poor white" presence succ…
Subverting Empire
Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the fir
Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal
In colonial settings, nothing was as dangerous to racialised social hierarchies as sexual contact between ‘white’ and ‘black’. 1 While Africans and Asians were constructed as — variously — rapacious, lascivious, hyper-sexed or diseased, Europeans who had sex with so-called ‘natives’ were perceived not only as culpable for the emergence of mixed-race populations but also as betraying a profound lack of racial feeling — to be recognised as white re…
Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World
Introduction: Thinking with Deviance
Colonialism was invested in the performance of power — from the pomp and ceremony of the imperial durbars to the everyday interactions of performed superiorities. The basic legitimating idea behind empire was the notion that the colonisers were superior to the colonised, whether that be in the form of unique access to the means of production, supposedly democratic systems of governance or those racial and cultural registers of difference that jus…
Pacifying Disruptive Subjects
This article considers the policing of protests against “fracking” at Barton Moss, Salford, Greater Manchester between November 2013 and April 2014. The article seeks to make sense of the policing response to the protest camp established at the Barton Moss site and to consider what the policing of anti-fracking protests reveals about state responses to resistance in the current era. The article begins by sketching out the background to fracking i…
The Settler’s Demise: Decolonization and Mental Breakdown in 1950s Kenya
Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880–1963
Settler colonialism in Kenya was both exemplary and aberrant. Here we encounter several of the defining characteristics of the settler colony as classically defined but encounter no less significant anomalies: a uniquely self-regarding settler culture; an intensely conflicted set of relations linking settlers to the state; a powerful and seemingly pervasive strain of fantasy in settler discourse that worked to conjure not just Kenya but a mythic …
Madness and Marginality: The Lives of Kenya's White Insane
‘No ordinary chaps’: Class, gender and the licensing of transgression
This chapter traces the social history of deviance amongst Europeans in colonial Kenya. In order to contain deviance within manageable bounds, it argues, a practical project of social control was combined with a discursive neutralisation of what might otherwise bring colonial rule into disre¬pute. Combining attention to cultural production with analysis of social control mechanisms reveals the salience of gender and class in the protection of a s…
Madness and marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane
Kenya Colony, for the British at least, has customarily been imagined as a place of wealthy settler-farmers, sun-lit panoramas and the adventure of safari. Yet for the majority of Europeans who went there life was very different. This book offers an unprecedented new account of what was – supposedly – the most picturesque of Britain's colonies overseas. While Kenya's romantic reputation has served to perpetuate the notion that Europeans enjoyed u…
The Shame of Not Belonging: Navigating Failure in the Colonial Petition, South Africa 1910–1961
This essay examines letters of petition sent by failed white settlers in South Africa to the British Governor General. These letters comprise a particular discursive genre that combine aspects of both private and public. The key to their success was controlled emotion: petitioners had to present their distress in such a way as to excite the exercise of compassion. Allowing subversive or stray emotions to enter a letter was bound to undermine a pe…
The Private Lives of Empire: Emotion, Intimacy, and Colonial Rule
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Unmistakable Trace of Colour: Racializing Children in Segregation-Era Cape Town, 1908-1933
This article uses the extensive case records of South Africa’s first child welfare society – the Society for the Protection of Child Life (SPCL) – as the means to rethink how race has been constituted within families and communities in colonial contexts. It uses the idea of an ‘unmistakable trace of colour’ as a way to considering the importance of doubt in the Society’s case records. In a context with a long history of racial mixing, judging rac…
Researching the policed: Critical ethnography and the study of protest policing
This article seeks to consider the value of critical ethnography for the study of policing. Specifically, the article explores the benefits and challenges of using ethnographic methods to explore protest policing from the perspective of the policed. Drawing upon a longitudinal study of the policing of protests against ‘fracking’ in England, the article examines the process of conducting research with groups who are being policed in extended prote…
Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests
In recent years public order policing policy in England and Wales has undergone significant changes. A ‘human rights compliant’ model of protest policing has been developed since 2009 and this article makes a contribution to the body of academic work considering the impact of these changes on operational policing. Drawing upon a longitudinal case study of the policing of protests against ‘fracking’ in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 2013–14, the …
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim
Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim." Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), pp. 133–134
No Country for Old Men: The Life of John Lee and the Problem of the Aged Pioneer
This article uses a charity appeal made on behalf of one old white man in South Africa in 1912 as an entry into considering the importance of age for social histories of empire – and for settler colonialism in particular. John Lee, aged eighty-five when he made his appeal, demanded the restitution of a piece of land he claimed to have been given by an African king and, to gain public sympathy, had his life story published in the local press. The …
Gender, power and sexual abuse in the Pacific: Rev Simpson's improper liberties
Playing the game? A criminological account of the making and sharing of Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence
This article reflects on the production and dissemination of Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence. Probationary is an artwork in the form of a board game that takes its players on a journey as they navigate the complexities of the probation process. This article explores the interdisciplinary collaborations that underpinned both the making and the sharing of the game and examines the benefits and challenges of working with stakeholders in th…
Out of place: Women’s experiences of policing in protest spaces
This article considers women’s experiences of policing at anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, which took place between November 2013 and April 2014. Specifically, the article examines the spatial dynamics of the policing of women and argues that the policing of protest demands feminist analysis. Drawing upon narratives collected from women protesters at Barton Moss, which explore experiences of sexual violence perpetrated by police, w…
Immoral Habits: Delinquent White Girls in 1920s Cape Town and the Distribution of Blame
In much recent historical writing on the history of South African child welfare considerable emphasis has been placed on the poor white problem. The development of child welfare is typically seen as part of the wider project to uplift so-called ‘poor whites’. This article builds on this literature by focusing on one particular aspect of South African child welfare work – the attempt to discipline ‘uncontrollable’ youth. Case histories pertaining …
Political science (18 works) · History (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Colonialism (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Empire (7 works)