Aradhana Parmar
Biographic Data
| ID | 733303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aradhana Parmar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aradhana |
| FAMILY NAME | Parmar |
| SIGNATURE | PARMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6719-6173 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Feeling race: Mapping emotions in policing Britain’s borders
Collaboration between the police and immigration has expanded in Britain, following implementation of renewed legislative and policy imperatives to ensure swifter removal and deportation of foreign national criminals. The roles and powers of ordinary police and immigration officers have blurred, allowing both to play a greater part in enforcing migration control as part of their daily routine. Race-making practices are woven into immigration enfo…
People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research
In this paper, we advocate identifying the colonizing logics of race in criminological analysis, in recognition of their enduring postcolonial presence in societies like the United Kingdom. Our argument unfolds through the life stories narrated by three men entangled by colonial remnants of power(lessness), subservience, and criminalization. For Cairo (black) and Rafan (Asian), their subalternity is exposed through their vulnerability to racializ…
Seeing is Believing: How the Layering of Race is Obscured by “White Epistemologies” in the Criminal Justice Field
Criminology has been slow in recognizing the central organizing logic of race in (post)colonial societies. It is therefore unsurprising that research practice falls behind that proffered through other disciplinary epistemological critiques. In this paper, we interrogate the tools of whiteness that are obscured in the widely used research method of in-depth interviews. We scrutinize what is not “seen” but which can be made evident in research inte…
Race matters in criminology: Introduction to the Special Issue
As race scholars and criminologists we are attuned to Du Bois’s (2007: 106) still meaningful injunction to ‘oppose this national racket of railroading to jails and chain gangs the poor, the friendless and the Black’. Yet we have become concerned that criminology seems rather inured to the long-standing and deeply entrenched patterns of race and criminal justice which characterize many high-income countries, and certainly England and Wales and Aus…
Borders as Mirrors: Racial Hierarchies and Policing Migration
This article considers how state-controlled borders and bordering practices are conceptualized, what they symbolize, and the consequences of these representations. By analyzing critically the metaphors that are used to describe borders and migration, and by drawing on empirical research on policing migration in the United Kingdom, an alternative metaphor, where borders are depicted heuristically as mirrors, may be instructive for capturing the mu…
Arresting (non)Citizenship: The Policing Migration Nexus of Nationality, Race and Criminalization
In this article I examine ‘Operation Nexus’, a collaborative initiative between the police and immigration enforcement in the UK, and its impact on foreign national and minority ethnic suspects of offending. I explain how strategic policing aims to manage migration around notions such as ‘high harm’ offenders, target those who appear ‘foreign’ as well as visible ethnic minority suspects, the latter of which may hold citizenship in the UK. The con…
Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone
In this article we use Emirbayer and Desmond’s institutional reflexivity framework to critically examine the production of racial knowledge in British criminology. Identifying weakness, neglect and marginalization in theorizing race and racism, we focus principally on the disciplinary unconscious element of their three-tier framework, identifying and interrogating aspects of criminology’s ‘obligatory problematics’, ‘habits of thought’ and ‘positi…
Policing Migration and Racial Technologies
The merger between familiar modes of policing with the impetus for migration control is reorganizing the racial politics of policing in unexpected ways. In the aim to decipher who is a citizen, who is a foreign national offender and who is eligible for deportation on the grounds of criminality, the role of criminal records agencies has expanded further into the work of policing, as have the collaborative working partnerships between immigration a…
Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control
In the introductory chapter the editors discuss why a volume that brings together race, migration, and criminal justice, in a way that speaks to issues of belonging, is both timely and necessary. In highlighting the gaps in various disciplinary literatures including the sociology of migration, criminology, and immigration law, this collection of essays discusses explicitly how concerns about race and ethnicity animate many of the state and popula…
Intersectionality, British criminology and race: Are we there yet
Intersectionality is the study of overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, discrimination and domination. From an intersectional perspective, aspects of a person’s identity, for example race, class and gender are understood to be enmeshed. To understand how systemic injustice operates and is produced, a multi-dimensional framework which captures how forms of oppression intersect and are shaped by one another, is necessary.…
Ethnicities, Racism, and Crime in England and Wales
Stop and search in London: Counter-terrorist or counter-productive
The principle of ‘reasonable suspicion’ aims to prevent the abuse of the police power to stop, search and arrest and to increase accountability. The lack of a ‘reasonable suspicion’ requirement in stop and search under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 generated controversy and demands for legislative reform. Questions were raised about whether counter-terrorist policing efforts under s44 were effective of merely compromising civil liberties a…
Perspectives on International Development Studies in Canadian Universities: The Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (CCUPIDS)
This paper briefly surveys the membership of the Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (ccupids) to establish a perspective on the variety of institutional and intellectual contexts within which international development is studied in Canada. The paper then examines some of the institutional and intellectual challenges that currently influence the directions of debate in the field of International Develop…
Micro-Credit, Empowerment, and Agency: Re-Evaluating the Discourse
The discussion around gender and development has come to focus on the “empowerment” of women, and has become quite central to development discourse. The “empowerment” of women also increasingly appears among the stated objectives of NGOs and other development agencies, to the extent that efforts to “empower women” have come to be an expected component of any credible development project or strategy. By critically assessing the discourse of empowe…
Savoirs, participation et développement: Perspectives au XXI e siècle
Literacies, Participation and Development in the Twenty-First Century
From Vedic Altar to Village Shrine: Towards an Interface Between Indology and Anthropology
Stop and search in London: Counter-terrorist or counter-productive
The principle of ‘reasonable suspicion’ aims to prevent the abuse of the police power to stop, search and arrest and to increase accountability. The lack of a ‘reasonable suspicion’ requirement in stop and search under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 generated controversy and demands for legislative reform. Questions were raised about whether counter-terrorist policing efforts under s44 were effective of merely compromising civil liberties a…
Arresting (non)Citizenship: The Policing Migration Nexus of Nationality, Race and Criminalization
In this article I examine ‘Operation Nexus’, a collaborative initiative between the police and immigration enforcement in the UK, and its impact on foreign national and minority ethnic suspects of offending. I explain how strategic policing aims to manage migration around notions such as ‘high harm’ offenders, target those who appear ‘foreign’ as well as visible ethnic minority suspects, the latter of which may hold citizenship in the UK. The con…
Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone
In this article we use Emirbayer and Desmond’s institutional reflexivity framework to critically examine the production of racial knowledge in British criminology. Identifying weakness, neglect and marginalization in theorizing race and racism, we focus principally on the disciplinary unconscious element of their three-tier framework, identifying and interrogating aspects of criminology’s ‘obligatory problematics’, ‘habits of thought’ and ‘positi…
Borders as Mirrors: Racial Hierarchies and Policing Migration
This article considers how state-controlled borders and bordering practices are conceptualized, what they symbolize, and the consequences of these representations. By analyzing critically the metaphors that are used to describe borders and migration, and by drawing on empirical research on policing migration in the United Kingdom, an alternative metaphor, where borders are depicted heuristically as mirrors, may be instructive for capturing the mu…
Intersectionality, British criminology and race: Are we there yet
Intersectionality is the study of overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, discrimination and domination. From an intersectional perspective, aspects of a person’s identity, for example race, class and gender are understood to be enmeshed. To understand how systemic injustice operates and is produced, a multi-dimensional framework which captures how forms of oppression intersect and are shaped by one another, is necessary.…
Policing Migration and Racial Technologies
The merger between familiar modes of policing with the impetus for migration control is reorganizing the racial politics of policing in unexpected ways. In the aim to decipher who is a citizen, who is a foreign national offender and who is eligible for deportation on the grounds of criminality, the role of criminal records agencies has expanded further into the work of policing, as have the collaborative working partnerships between immigration a…
Micro-Credit, Empowerment, and Agency: Re-Evaluating the Discourse
The discussion around gender and development has come to focus on the “empowerment” of women, and has become quite central to development discourse. The “empowerment” of women also increasingly appears among the stated objectives of NGOs and other development agencies, to the extent that efforts to “empower women” have come to be an expected component of any credible development project or strategy. By critically assessing the discourse of empowe…
People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research
In this paper, we advocate identifying the colonizing logics of race in criminological analysis, in recognition of their enduring postcolonial presence in societies like the United Kingdom. Our argument unfolds through the life stories narrated by three men entangled by colonial remnants of power(lessness), subservience, and criminalization. For Cairo (black) and Rafan (Asian), their subalternity is exposed through their vulnerability to racializ…
Race matters in criminology: Introduction to the Special Issue
As race scholars and criminologists we are attuned to Du Bois’s (2007: 106) still meaningful injunction to ‘oppose this national racket of railroading to jails and chain gangs the poor, the friendless and the Black’. Yet we have become concerned that criminology seems rather inured to the long-standing and deeply entrenched patterns of race and criminal justice which characterize many high-income countries, and certainly England and Wales and Aus…
Perspectives on International Development Studies in Canadian Universities: The Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (CCUPIDS)
This paper briefly surveys the membership of the Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (ccupids) to establish a perspective on the variety of institutional and intellectual contexts within which international development is studied in Canada. The paper then examines some of the institutional and intellectual challenges that currently influence the directions of debate in the field of International Develop…
From Vedic Altar to Village Shrine: Towards an Interface Between Indology and Anthropology
Savoirs, participation et développement: Perspectives au XXI e siècle
Literacies, Participation and Development in the Twenty-First Century
Micro-Credit, Empowerment, and Agency: Re-Evaluating the Discourse
The discussion around gender and development has come to focus on the “empowerment” of women, and has become quite central to development discourse. The “empowerment” of women also increasingly appears among the stated objectives of NGOs and other development agencies, to the extent that efforts to “empower women” have come to be an expected component of any credible development project or strategy. By critically assessing the discourse of empowe…
Perspectives on International Development Studies in Canadian Universities: The Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (CCUPIDS)
This paper briefly surveys the membership of the Canadian Consortium of University Programs in International Development Studies (ccupids) to establish a perspective on the variety of institutional and intellectual contexts within which international development is studied in Canada. The paper then examines some of the institutional and intellectual challenges that currently influence the directions of debate in the field of International Develop…
Stop and search in London: Counter-terrorist or counter-productive
The principle of ‘reasonable suspicion’ aims to prevent the abuse of the police power to stop, search and arrest and to increase accountability. The lack of a ‘reasonable suspicion’ requirement in stop and search under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 generated controversy and demands for legislative reform. Questions were raised about whether counter-terrorist policing efforts under s44 were effective of merely compromising civil liberties a…
Ethnicities, Racism, and Crime in England and Wales
Intersectionality, British criminology and race: Are we there yet
Intersectionality is the study of overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, discrimination and domination. From an intersectional perspective, aspects of a person’s identity, for example race, class and gender are understood to be enmeshed. To understand how systemic injustice operates and is produced, a multi-dimensional framework which captures how forms of oppression intersect and are shaped by one another, is necessary.…
Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control
In the introductory chapter the editors discuss why a volume that brings together race, migration, and criminal justice, in a way that speaks to issues of belonging, is both timely and necessary. In highlighting the gaps in various disciplinary literatures including the sociology of migration, criminology, and immigration law, this collection of essays discusses explicitly how concerns about race and ethnicity animate many of the state and popula…
Arresting (non)Citizenship: The Policing Migration Nexus of Nationality, Race and Criminalization
In this article I examine ‘Operation Nexus’, a collaborative initiative between the police and immigration enforcement in the UK, and its impact on foreign national and minority ethnic suspects of offending. I explain how strategic policing aims to manage migration around notions such as ‘high harm’ offenders, target those who appear ‘foreign’ as well as visible ethnic minority suspects, the latter of which may hold citizenship in the UK. The con…
Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone
In this article we use Emirbayer and Desmond’s institutional reflexivity framework to critically examine the production of racial knowledge in British criminology. Identifying weakness, neglect and marginalization in theorizing race and racism, we focus principally on the disciplinary unconscious element of their three-tier framework, identifying and interrogating aspects of criminology’s ‘obligatory problematics’, ‘habits of thought’ and ‘positi…
Policing Migration and Racial Technologies
The merger between familiar modes of policing with the impetus for migration control is reorganizing the racial politics of policing in unexpected ways. In the aim to decipher who is a citizen, who is a foreign national offender and who is eligible for deportation on the grounds of criminality, the role of criminal records agencies has expanded further into the work of policing, as have the collaborative working partnerships between immigration a…
Race matters in criminology: Introduction to the Special Issue
As race scholars and criminologists we are attuned to Du Bois’s (2007: 106) still meaningful injunction to ‘oppose this national racket of railroading to jails and chain gangs the poor, the friendless and the Black’. Yet we have become concerned that criminology seems rather inured to the long-standing and deeply entrenched patterns of race and criminal justice which characterize many high-income countries, and certainly England and Wales and Aus…
Borders as Mirrors: Racial Hierarchies and Policing Migration
This article considers how state-controlled borders and bordering practices are conceptualized, what they symbolize, and the consequences of these representations. By analyzing critically the metaphors that are used to describe borders and migration, and by drawing on empirical research on policing migration in the United Kingdom, an alternative metaphor, where borders are depicted heuristically as mirrors, may be instructive for capturing the mu…
Seeing is Believing: How the Layering of Race is Obscured by “White Epistemologies” in the Criminal Justice Field
Criminology has been slow in recognizing the central organizing logic of race in (post)colonial societies. It is therefore unsurprising that research practice falls behind that proffered through other disciplinary epistemological critiques. In this paper, we interrogate the tools of whiteness that are obscured in the widely used research method of in-depth interviews. We scrutinize what is not “seen” but which can be made evident in research inte…
People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research
In this paper, we advocate identifying the colonizing logics of race in criminological analysis, in recognition of their enduring postcolonial presence in societies like the United Kingdom. Our argument unfolds through the life stories narrated by three men entangled by colonial remnants of power(lessness), subservience, and criminalization. For Cairo (black) and Rafan (Asian), their subalternity is exposed through their vulnerability to racializ…
Feeling race: Mapping emotions in policing Britain’s borders
Collaboration between the police and immigration has expanded in Britain, following implementation of renewed legislative and policy imperatives to ensure swifter removal and deportation of foreign national criminals. The roles and powers of ordinary police and immigration officers have blurred, allowing both to play a greater part in enforcing migration control as part of their daily routine. Race-making practices are woven into immigration enfo…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)