Molly Rosabelle Ackhurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 2497093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molly Rosabelle Ackhurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Molly Rosabelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackhurst |
| SIGNATURE | ACKHURST M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8607-5238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Texture of Things: Collage as a Site of Material Constraint and Possibility
This article explores the affective and material complexities of creating arts-based artefacts to explore and represent sexual violence. It does so through attending to both the materials used and the embodied practices of those making them. Focusing on collage, it examines how the physical properties of materials mediate what can be imagined, simultaneously enabling expression and constraining it within familiar visual vocabularies often shaped …
Exploring Anti-carceral Pathways to Address Gender-based Violence in Universities: A Conversation
This article is an overview of a Legislative Theatre (LT) workshop that was organised by the authors at Newcastle University in June of 2024. The workshop was aimed at both rethinking and reimagining the university’s broadly defined approach to and policies around complaint handling with a specific focus on instances and reports of gender-based violence (GBV). All of the authors are committed to enacting anti-carceral feminist futures aimed at ch…
Listening, or ‘led by’? Belief, innocence and the risks of a ‘survivor-led’ feminist politics
Since the carceral elements of #MeToo were first observed, long-simmering debates around what it means to listen to – and indeed believe – survivors have been reignited within Anglophone feminist anti-violence work and scholarship. Using analysis of the anger that erupts on social media when seemingly carceral feminist campaigns proclaim to be ‘led by’ survivors as a starting point, this article demonstrates that – while seemingly divided – much …
Against Conferencing-as-usual in times of Genocide: Criminology, Complicity, and Sexual Violence in Palestine
No abstract available
Collaging Carceral Entrapments and Reorientating to the Imagination
In this article I interrogate the attachment to 'the imagination' as a site free from the weed-like tentacles of carceral systems and structures, and thus a solution to 'stuckness'. Building on Lauren Berlant's theorisation of 'cruel optimism', I draw on my own sticky, cruelly optimistic methodological engagements with the imagination in qualitative research, whereby collage was used to explore what participants wanted in response to the injustic…
Collaging Carceral Entrapments and Reorientating to the Imagination
In this article I interrogate the attachment to 'the imagination' as a site free from the weed-like tentacles of carceral systems and structures, and thus a solution to 'stuckness'. Building on Lauren Berlant's theorisation of 'cruel optimism', I draw on my own sticky, cruelly optimistic methodological engagements with the imagination in qualitative research, whereby collage was used to explore what participants wanted in response to the injustic…
Collaging Carceral Entrapments and Reorientating to the Imagination
In this article I interrogate the attachment to 'the imagination' as a site free from the weed-like tentacles of carceral systems and structures, and thus a solution to 'stuckness'. Building on Lauren Berlant's theorisation of 'cruel optimism', I draw on my own sticky, cruelly optimistic methodological engagements with the imagination in qualitative research, whereby collage was used to explore what participants wanted in response to the injustic…
Listening, or ‘led by’? Belief, innocence and the risks of a ‘survivor-led’ feminist politics
Since the carceral elements of #MeToo were first observed, long-simmering debates around what it means to listen to – and indeed believe – survivors have been reignited within Anglophone feminist anti-violence work and scholarship. Using analysis of the anger that erupts on social media when seemingly carceral feminist campaigns proclaim to be ‘led by’ survivors as a starting point, this article demonstrates that – while seemingly divided – much …
Against Conferencing-as-usual in times of Genocide: Criminology, Complicity, and Sexual Violence in Palestine
No abstract available
In the Texture of Things: Collage as a Site of Material Constraint and Possibility
This article explores the affective and material complexities of creating arts-based artefacts to explore and represent sexual violence. It does so through attending to both the materials used and the embodied practices of those making them. Focusing on collage, it examines how the physical properties of materials mediate what can be imagined, simultaneously enabling expression and constraining it within familiar visual vocabularies often shaped …
Exploring Anti-carceral Pathways to Address Gender-based Violence in Universities: A Conversation
This article is an overview of a Legislative Theatre (LT) workshop that was organised by the authors at Newcastle University in June of 2024. The workshop was aimed at both rethinking and reimagining the university’s broadly defined approach to and policies around complaint handling with a specific focus on instances and reports of gender-based violence (GBV). All of the authors are committed to enacting anti-carceral feminist futures aimed at ch…
Feminism (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Feminist theory (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Affordance (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Complaint (1 works) · Conversation (1 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (1 works)