E Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 32243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2643-526X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reproducing a ‘horrific’ place: Carceral humanism and prison expansion in Aotearoa New Zealand
Analysis of incarceration in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has largely focused on the influence of penal populism. The role of progressive politics in NZ's significant carceral build-up has, by contrast, mostly escaped critical examination. Using Waikeria Prison as a case study, set to become the country's largest by 2030, this article investigates how successive NZ governments are ‘selling’ prison expansion to the public. Using critical discourse an…
Carceral Infrastructure Planning: Regional Prison Expansion and the Making of Punishment Futures in Victoria, Australia
Victoria has often been touted as Australia’s “progressive” penal state with one of the lowest imprisonment rates in the country. Its prison population has increased significantly over the past two-and-a-half decades, however. The upward trend in incarceration has been seized on by state planners and private firms as a major infrastructure project opportunity, purporting to stimulate job creation in regions precipitously managing the decline of t…
Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization
Building on conceptions of policing as a colonial project, this article contributes to spatial and sensory understandings of policing by examining everyday practices of gender and racial criminalization. I argue that criminalization results from ‘seeing like a cop’ (Guenther 2019), and reordering and securing spaces accordingly. I explore the logics, practices and effects of this regime of visuality and spatial governance, drawing upon research o…
Queer matters in criminology
This special issue addresses the need for a critical and collective response to the growing hostility faced by queer and trans people worldwide, and to the expansion of state, legal, and techno-social control over contra-normative modes of gendered and sexual life. In this editor’s introduction, we reflect on the provocation offered in the title of this special issue— Queer Matters in Criminology —and situate this collection’s development within …
Racial and nonracial discrimination and tobacco use among high school students in California
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl
This article examines the politics of prison siting on contaminated land within an endangered ecosystem in Australia, contributing to the literature on carceral geography and the burgeoning field of abolition ecology. I argue that prisons materialise in the landscape through processes of dispossession, environmental degradation and value extraction that enclose Indigenous lands for caging populations cast as ‘surplus’ to settler racial capitalism…
Soundmapping hotel detention
During August 2020, amid Australia’s COVID-19-driven external border closures and internal border restrictions, the Manus Recording Project Collective (hereafter: the Collective) produced the sound project, where are you today (wayt).1 The project was a collaboration between six asylum seekers detained in hotels or immigration detention centres across Australia and Papua New Guinea, and three writers/radio-makers in Melbourne.2 Each day, for 30-c…
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia's colonial policy of 'offshoring' immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both 'on' and 'offshore'. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form 'spaces of disappearance'. In this article, we draw upon conce…
It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the Covid-19 pandemic
This article advances a critical analysis of the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and highlights the ways in which it can work to justify the pre-emptive detention and over-policing of marginalised populations. Building on a historical analysis of the entanglement between public health directives and carceral techniques of securitisation, we provide a contemporary case study of the ‘hard lockdown’ of nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia i…
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
This article examines a sound-based digital project co-created with refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention in Australia and Papua New Guinea to advance understandings of the sensory violence of borders – and resistance to borders – and their reordering of intimate realms. In where are you today (2020), refugees/asylum seekers catalogued their carceral environments in 10-minute sonic vignettes which were distributed to listeners …
Governing Queer Histories and Futures: A Critical Place-Based Analysis of State Apology
The southern island of Tasmania is renowned for being the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1997. Twenty years after the repeal of these laws, the state parliament of Tasmania passed legislation introducing an expungement scheme for historical homosexual convictions and delivered an apology for their harms. In this article, we draw upon theories of sexual citizenship to develop a critical place-based analysis of the Tasmania…
Carceral atmospheres on Manus Island: Listening to how are you today
This paper develops a conception of ‘carceral atmospheres’ as a way of framing our encounter with the sound art and archive how are you today, created by the Manus Recording Project Collective (MRPC). This 2018 work involved the creation and collection of 84 field recordings by six asylum seekers and refugees indefinitely detained on Manus Island by the Australian government. I argue that a proper engagement with the medium and mode of production…
It all started here, and it all ends here too’: Homosexual criminalisation and the queer politics of apology
In recent years, we have witnessed a tide of government apologies for historic laws criminalising homosexuality. Complicating a conventional view of state apologies as a progressive effort to come to terms with past mistakes, queer theoretical frameworks help to elucidate the power effects and self-serving nature of the new politics of regret. We argue that through the discourse of gay apology, the state extolls pride in its present identity by e…
Carceral churn: A sensorial ethnography of the bail and remand court
This article discusses findings from an ethnographic study of a bail and remand court in Victoria, Australia. Through a focus on the sensory dimensions of forced movements within and through the bail court, the article contributes to the burgeoning sub-field of sensory criminology and develops the concept of ‘carceral churn’. The article argues that the bail court’s churn reproduces criminal and carceral subjects and is implicated in a project of…
Ambivalent investments: Lessons from LGBTIQ efforts to reform policing
Despite their longstanding role in upholding heteronormativity, police forces are becoming increasingly concerned to publicly demonstrate their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) rights. Far from an inevitable progression, this partial and uneven shift is the product of sustained LGBTIQ activism and advocacy with and against the police – much of it ‘behind the scenes’. This paper draws on a selection of i…
Indefinite stuckness: Listening in a time of hyper-incarceration and border entrapment
New technologies for recording, reproducing, and disseminating sound are increasingly accessible and provide important opportunities for listening to accounts of confinement. Through a politics and practice of ‘earwitnessing detention’, this article explores experiential patterns and distinctions between immigration detention and imprisonment. By ‘tuning in’ to radio and podcasting emerging from and through carceral spaces, we argue that both det…
‘We Will Be Written Out of History’: Feminist Challenges to Carceral Violence and the Activist Archive
Feminist activism has played an important role in documenting, highlighting and challenging carceral violence against women within and beyond prison walls. Using the campaign against the punitive segregation of women in high-security men’s prisons in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia, as a case study, we illustrate the value of the activist archive for critical prisons research. The activist archive has the potential to expose continuiti…
Carceral Pride: The Fusion of Police Imagery with LGBTI Rights
Counter-carceral acoustemologies: Sound, permeability and feminist protest at the prison boundary
This article provides an analysis of sonic protest strategies used by anti-carceral feminist coalitions in Melbourne, Australia. Our research demonstrates that sound is a particularly powerful boundary-crosser that can challenge the exclusionary spatial ordering of the prison. Under certain political and geographical conditions, the carceral soundscape, which increasingly restricts 'who gets to hear what', can be temporarily breached, altered and…
The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members
“Gang” discourses typically elicit racialized images of the kinds of aggressive heteronormative masculinities that are, in actuality, encountered in all kinds of social and culture spheres. Far less often do we imagine gangs to be a possible site for queer identity formation, negotiation, and defense. By providing precisely this insight, Vanessa Panfil’s timely book The Gang’s All Queer makes an important queer intervention into a persistent sour…
Punishment in a ‘tolerant society’: Interrogating hate crime law reform discourse
This article examines political and media discourse surrounding a specific Australian example of hate crime law reform that was instituted principally to combat a wave of racial violence. The analysis suggests that the introduction of hate crime law can advance a liberal tolerance discourse that becomes interwoven with a ‘law and order’ agenda. This creates a troubling context whereby punitiveness may be promoted as a vehicle to deliver social ju…
Queer Penalities: The Criminal Justice Paradigm in Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Politics
A ‘fair cop’: Queer histories, affect and police image work in Pride March
This article investigates how proactive police image work contends with the politics of queer history by drawing from aspects of affect theory. It asks: How does police image work engage with or respond to ongoing histories of state violence and queer resistance? And why does this matter? To explore these questions, the article provides a case study of the Victorian Pride March in 2002. It analyzes textual representations of Chief Commissioner Ch…
Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters, eds
Journal Article Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters, eds Get access Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters, eds. 2007. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle. pp. 463. £44.99, $89.99 hardback Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth Russell Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona, [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Counter-carceral acoustemologies: Sound, permeability and feminist protest at the prison boundary
This article provides an analysis of sonic protest strategies used by anti-carceral feminist coalitions in Melbourne, Australia. Our research demonstrates that sound is a particularly powerful boundary-crosser that can challenge the exclusionary spatial ordering of the prison. Under certain political and geographical conditions, the carceral soundscape, which increasingly restricts 'who gets to hear what', can be temporarily breached, altered and…
Carceral churn: A sensorial ethnography of the bail and remand court
This article discusses findings from an ethnographic study of a bail and remand court in Victoria, Australia. Through a focus on the sensory dimensions of forced movements within and through the bail court, the article contributes to the burgeoning sub-field of sensory criminology and develops the concept of ‘carceral churn’. The article argues that the bail court’s churn reproduces criminal and carceral subjects and is implicated in a project of…
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
This article examines a sound-based digital project co-created with refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention in Australia and Papua New Guinea to advance understandings of the sensory violence of borders – and resistance to borders – and their reordering of intimate realms. In where are you today (2020), refugees/asylum seekers catalogued their carceral environments in 10-minute sonic vignettes which were distributed to listeners …
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia's colonial policy of 'offshoring' immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both 'on' and 'offshore'. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form 'spaces of disappearance'. In this article, we draw upon conce…
A ‘fair cop’: Queer histories, affect and police image work in Pride March
This article investigates how proactive police image work contends with the politics of queer history by drawing from aspects of affect theory. It asks: How does police image work engage with or respond to ongoing histories of state violence and queer resistance? And why does this matter? To explore these questions, the article provides a case study of the Victorian Pride March in 2002. It analyzes textual representations of Chief Commissioner Ch…
Indefinite stuckness: Listening in a time of hyper-incarceration and border entrapment
New technologies for recording, reproducing, and disseminating sound are increasingly accessible and provide important opportunities for listening to accounts of confinement. Through a politics and practice of ‘earwitnessing detention’, this article explores experiential patterns and distinctions between immigration detention and imprisonment. By ‘tuning in’ to radio and podcasting emerging from and through carceral spaces, we argue that both det…
Carceral Pride: The Fusion of Police Imagery with LGBTI Rights
It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the Covid-19 pandemic
This article advances a critical analysis of the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and highlights the ways in which it can work to justify the pre-emptive detention and over-policing of marginalised populations. Building on a historical analysis of the entanglement between public health directives and carceral techniques of securitisation, we provide a contemporary case study of the ‘hard lockdown’ of nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia i…
Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization
Building on conceptions of policing as a colonial project, this article contributes to spatial and sensory understandings of policing by examining everyday practices of gender and racial criminalization. I argue that criminalization results from ‘seeing like a cop’ (Guenther 2019), and reordering and securing spaces accordingly. I explore the logics, practices and effects of this regime of visuality and spatial governance, drawing upon research o…
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl
This article examines the politics of prison siting on contaminated land within an endangered ecosystem in Australia, contributing to the literature on carceral geography and the burgeoning field of abolition ecology. I argue that prisons materialise in the landscape through processes of dispossession, environmental degradation and value extraction that enclose Indigenous lands for caging populations cast as ‘surplus’ to settler racial capitalism…
It all started here, and it all ends here too’: Homosexual criminalisation and the queer politics of apology
In recent years, we have witnessed a tide of government apologies for historic laws criminalising homosexuality. Complicating a conventional view of state apologies as a progressive effort to come to terms with past mistakes, queer theoretical frameworks help to elucidate the power effects and self-serving nature of the new politics of regret. We argue that through the discourse of gay apology, the state extolls pride in its present identity by e…
Queer Penalities: The Criminal Justice Paradigm in Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Politics
Locating Cure: Leprosy and Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging
Journal Article Locating Cure: Leprosy and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging Get access Emily Russell Emily Russell University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 53–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.1.53 Published: 01 March 2006
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The problem of measuring change in individual health-related quality of life by postal questionnaire: Use of the patient-generated index in a disabled population
Whose health is it anyway: Enabling participation
Public and patient participation in the healthcare decision making process. Current policy rhetoric promises the public and patients wider participation in decisions about health care, and in the research that informs it, with an implication that participation is likely to generate substantial health benefits. However, it is not yet clear what can be done to make it happen effectively. The British National Health Service (NHS) was built on an eth…
Locating Cure: Leprosy and Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging
Journal Article Locating Cure: Leprosy and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging Get access Emily Russell Emily Russell University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 53–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.1.53 Published: 01 March 2006
Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters, eds
Journal Article Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters, eds Get access Women's Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters, eds. 2007. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle. pp. 463. £44.99, $89.99 hardback Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth Russell Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona, [email protected] Search for other works by this…
A ‘fair cop’: Queer histories, affect and police image work in Pride March
This article investigates how proactive police image work contends with the politics of queer history by drawing from aspects of affect theory. It asks: How does police image work engage with or respond to ongoing histories of state violence and queer resistance? And why does this matter? To explore these questions, the article provides a case study of the Victorian Pride March in 2002. It analyzes textual representations of Chief Commissioner Ch…
Punishment in a ‘tolerant society’: Interrogating hate crime law reform discourse
This article examines political and media discourse surrounding a specific Australian example of hate crime law reform that was instituted principally to combat a wave of racial violence. The analysis suggests that the introduction of hate crime law can advance a liberal tolerance discourse that becomes interwoven with a ‘law and order’ agenda. This creates a troubling context whereby punitiveness may be promoted as a vehicle to deliver social ju…
Queer Penalities: The Criminal Justice Paradigm in Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Politics
‘We Will Be Written Out of History’: Feminist Challenges to Carceral Violence and the Activist Archive
Feminist activism has played an important role in documenting, highlighting and challenging carceral violence against women within and beyond prison walls. Using the campaign against the punitive segregation of women in high-security men’s prisons in the 1980s and 1990s in Victoria, Australia, as a case study, we illustrate the value of the activist archive for critical prisons research. The activist archive has the potential to expose continuiti…
Carceral Pride: The Fusion of Police Imagery with LGBTI Rights
Counter-carceral acoustemologies: Sound, permeability and feminist protest at the prison boundary
This article provides an analysis of sonic protest strategies used by anti-carceral feminist coalitions in Melbourne, Australia. Our research demonstrates that sound is a particularly powerful boundary-crosser that can challenge the exclusionary spatial ordering of the prison. Under certain political and geographical conditions, the carceral soundscape, which increasingly restricts 'who gets to hear what', can be temporarily breached, altered and…
The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members
“Gang” discourses typically elicit racialized images of the kinds of aggressive heteronormative masculinities that are, in actuality, encountered in all kinds of social and culture spheres. Far less often do we imagine gangs to be a possible site for queer identity formation, negotiation, and defense. By providing precisely this insight, Vanessa Panfil’s timely book The Gang’s All Queer makes an important queer intervention into a persistent sour…
Ambivalent investments: Lessons from LGBTIQ efforts to reform policing
Despite their longstanding role in upholding heteronormativity, police forces are becoming increasingly concerned to publicly demonstrate their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) rights. Far from an inevitable progression, this partial and uneven shift is the product of sustained LGBTIQ activism and advocacy with and against the police – much of it ‘behind the scenes’. This paper draws on a selection of i…
Indefinite stuckness: Listening in a time of hyper-incarceration and border entrapment
New technologies for recording, reproducing, and disseminating sound are increasingly accessible and provide important opportunities for listening to accounts of confinement. Through a politics and practice of ‘earwitnessing detention’, this article explores experiential patterns and distinctions between immigration detention and imprisonment. By ‘tuning in’ to radio and podcasting emerging from and through carceral spaces, we argue that both det…
Carceral atmospheres on Manus Island: Listening to how are you today
This paper develops a conception of ‘carceral atmospheres’ as a way of framing our encounter with the sound art and archive how are you today, created by the Manus Recording Project Collective (MRPC). This 2018 work involved the creation and collection of 84 field recordings by six asylum seekers and refugees indefinitely detained on Manus Island by the Australian government. I argue that a proper engagement with the medium and mode of production…
It all started here, and it all ends here too’: Homosexual criminalisation and the queer politics of apology
In recent years, we have witnessed a tide of government apologies for historic laws criminalising homosexuality. Complicating a conventional view of state apologies as a progressive effort to come to terms with past mistakes, queer theoretical frameworks help to elucidate the power effects and self-serving nature of the new politics of regret. We argue that through the discourse of gay apology, the state extolls pride in its present identity by e…
Carceral churn: A sensorial ethnography of the bail and remand court
This article discusses findings from an ethnographic study of a bail and remand court in Victoria, Australia. Through a focus on the sensory dimensions of forced movements within and through the bail court, the article contributes to the burgeoning sub-field of sensory criminology and develops the concept of ‘carceral churn’. The article argues that the bail court’s churn reproduces criminal and carceral subjects and is implicated in a project of…
It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the Covid-19 pandemic
This article advances a critical analysis of the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and highlights the ways in which it can work to justify the pre-emptive detention and over-policing of marginalised populations. Building on a historical analysis of the entanglement between public health directives and carceral techniques of securitisation, we provide a contemporary case study of the ‘hard lockdown’ of nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia i…
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
This article examines a sound-based digital project co-created with refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention in Australia and Papua New Guinea to advance understandings of the sensory violence of borders – and resistance to borders – and their reordering of intimate realms. In where are you today (2020), refugees/asylum seekers catalogued their carceral environments in 10-minute sonic vignettes which were distributed to listeners …
Governing Queer Histories and Futures: A Critical Place-Based Analysis of State Apology
The southern island of Tasmania is renowned for being the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality in 1997. Twenty years after the repeal of these laws, the state parliament of Tasmania passed legislation introducing an expungement scheme for historical homosexual convictions and delivered an apology for their harms. In this article, we draw upon theories of sexual citizenship to develop a critical place-based analysis of the Tasmania…
Soundmapping hotel detention
During August 2020, amid Australia’s COVID-19-driven external border closures and internal border restrictions, the Manus Recording Project Collective (hereafter: the Collective) produced the sound project, where are you today (wayt).1 The project was a collaboration between six asylum seekers detained in hotels or immigration detention centres across Australia and Papua New Guinea, and three writers/radio-makers in Melbourne.2 Each day, for 30-c…
Ghost Criminology and specters of abolition
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia's colonial policy of 'offshoring' immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both 'on' and 'offshore'. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form 'spaces of disappearance'. In this article, we draw upon conce…
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl
This article examines the politics of prison siting on contaminated land within an endangered ecosystem in Australia, contributing to the literature on carceral geography and the burgeoning field of abolition ecology. I argue that prisons materialise in the landscape through processes of dispossession, environmental degradation and value extraction that enclose Indigenous lands for caging populations cast as ‘surplus’ to settler racial capitalism…
Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization
Building on conceptions of policing as a colonial project, this article contributes to spatial and sensory understandings of policing by examining everyday practices of gender and racial criminalization. I argue that criminalization results from ‘seeing like a cop’ (Guenther 2019), and reordering and securing spaces accordingly. I explore the logics, practices and effects of this regime of visuality and spatial governance, drawing upon research o…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Prison (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works)