Alison Urie
Biographic Data
| ID | 334315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Urie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Urie |
| SIGNATURE | URIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vox Liminis, Glasgow, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1992-4302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making Light of Imprisonment
In previous papers, we have explored how songs written in prison, and the process of collaborative songwriting that produced them, served as devices for solving relational and personal problems that imprisonment poses. Here, drawing on data from the same project (Distant Voices: Coming Home), we explore and analyse how humour featured both in the songwriting process and in some of the songs, focussing on two songs written by women in prison. Our …
Mediating Punishment? Prisoners’ Songs as Relational ‘Problem-Solving’ Devices
In this article we share some findings from the Distant Voices – Coming Home project. It is a partnership between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and the West of Scotland, and the Glasgow-based arts charity Vox Liminis. Distant Voices aims to explore and practice re/integration after punishment through creative collaborations (primarily songwriting) and action-research. The project is complex and interdisciplinary, blurring boundaries betw…
Collaboration before collaborative research
In this article, we explore the origins and early development of the ongoing collaborative action research project 'Distant Voices - Coming Home'. We begin by explaining why and how our somewhat different backgrounds and interests came to be connected in Distant Voices. We then go on to explore the project's first two development stages. In discussing the first phase (Distant Voices 1), we focus on how and why we developed creative processes and …
Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility
Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led research and songwriting to explore crime, punishment and reintegration through creative conversations that aim to challenge and unsettle understandings of and approaches to rehabilitation and reintegration. In this paper, we discuss some of the thinking behind the project and we reflect on o…
Collaboration before collaborative research
In this article, we explore the origins and early development of the ongoing collaborative action research project 'Distant Voices - Coming Home'. We begin by explaining why and how our somewhat different backgrounds and interests came to be connected in Distant Voices. We then go on to explore the project's first two development stages. In discussing the first phase (Distant Voices 1), we focus on how and why we developed creative processes and …
Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility
Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led research and songwriting to explore crime, punishment and reintegration through creative conversations that aim to challenge and unsettle understandings of and approaches to rehabilitation and reintegration. In this paper, we discuss some of the thinking behind the project and we reflect on o…
Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility
Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led research and songwriting to explore crime, punishment and reintegration through creative conversations that aim to challenge and unsettle understandings of and approaches to rehabilitation and reintegration. In this paper, we discuss some of the thinking behind the project and we reflect on o…
Mediating Punishment? Prisoners’ Songs as Relational ‘Problem-Solving’ Devices
In this article we share some findings from the Distant Voices – Coming Home project. It is a partnership between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and the West of Scotland, and the Glasgow-based arts charity Vox Liminis. Distant Voices aims to explore and practice re/integration after punishment through creative collaborations (primarily songwriting) and action-research. The project is complex and interdisciplinary, blurring boundaries betw…
Collaboration before collaborative research
In this article, we explore the origins and early development of the ongoing collaborative action research project 'Distant Voices - Coming Home'. We begin by explaining why and how our somewhat different backgrounds and interests came to be connected in Distant Voices. We then go on to explore the project's first two development stages. In discussing the first phase (Distant Voices 1), we focus on how and why we developed creative processes and …
Making Light of Imprisonment
In previous papers, we have explored how songs written in prison, and the process of collaborative songwriting that produced them, served as devices for solving relational and personal problems that imprisonment poses. Here, drawing on data from the same project (Distant Voices: Coming Home), we explore and analyse how humour featured both in the songwriting process and in some of the songs, focussing on two songs written by women in prison. Our …
Criminology (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Prison (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Action research (1 works) · Community Health and Development (1 works)