Vivian Swayne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivian Swayne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivian |
| FAMILY NAME | Swayne |
| SIGNATURE | SWAYNE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2568-9892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Painting police power
Police around the world sponsor and paint murals to physically and socially engage the communities they police. Drawing from a transnational semiotic analysis, this study reveals how police murals materialize deeply affective landscapes. Despite local variation, police murals consistently reproduce paternalist, racialized, and colonial narratives that obscure direct, indirect, and pacifying forms of state violence. As benevolent markers of territ…
Digital collectives in the carceral era
This essay critically examines the growing role of digital collectives and collections in the current carceral era, emphasizing the transformative potential of community-driven digital scholarship and participatory research in the study of punishment and abolitionist movements. Through an introduction of Abolition Now: Images for Study and Struggle (AN) and related initiatives, the authors highlight how digital archives and artistic collaboration…
The Legal Violence of Police Calls for Service
In this article, we return to the scene of the police call in the United States to conceptualize the basic needs and structural forces animating calls for service and their relationship to a jurispathic form of legal violence. We do so by revisiting the perennial question of why people call the police, analyzing how conditions of organized abandonment drive the call. We follow how police reports reveal the bureaucratic and administrative legal vi…
Normalizing State Rape
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The Legal Violence of Police Calls for Service
In this article, we return to the scene of the police call in the United States to conceptualize the basic needs and structural forces animating calls for service and their relationship to a jurispathic form of legal violence. We do so by revisiting the perennial question of why people call the police, analyzing how conditions of organized abandonment drive the call. We follow how police reports reveal the bureaucratic and administrative legal vi…
Normalizing State Rape
Digital collectives in the carceral era
This essay critically examines the growing role of digital collectives and collections in the current carceral era, emphasizing the transformative potential of community-driven digital scholarship and participatory research in the study of punishment and abolitionist movements. Through an introduction of Abolition Now: Images for Study and Struggle (AN) and related initiatives, the authors highlight how digital archives and artistic collaboration…
Painting police power
Police around the world sponsor and paint murals to physically and socially engage the communities they police. Drawing from a transnational semiotic analysis, this study reveals how police murals materialize deeply affective landscapes. Despite local variation, police murals consistently reproduce paternalist, racialized, and colonial narratives that obscure direct, indirect, and pacifying forms of state violence. As benevolent markers of territ…
Business (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Abolitionism (1 work) · Advertising (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 work)