People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’

Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research

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ID8401928
AutoresAradhana Parmar (0000-0001-6719-6173, University of Cambridge), Rod Earle (0000-0001-9068-9849, The Open University), Coretta Phillips (0000-0001-9796-7792, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume63
Fascículo4
Páginas811-827
Data de publicação2023-06-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azac058
OpenAlexW4292064166
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas61

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 racialized stereotypes which have a foundation in colonial histories. Both young minority ethnic men are also situated in a transnational, glocalized frame in which their racialized and gendered identities prescribed the nature of their belonging to a British nation-state irrevocably connected to the Empire. Our reflections on a third narrative interview of Barry reveal the dividends of whiteness, simultaneously occluded, disavowed, and yet wilfully upheld, but in a competitive and exclusive form of belonging. In the articulation and analysis of these stories of crime and order, we mine styles of reasoning from postcolonial theory, sociology, history, and philosophy to embolden a postcolonial criminology

Argument (complex analysis) · Articulation (sociology) · Colonialism · Criminalization · Criminology · Empire · Narrative · Political science · Power (physics) · Racism · Situated · Sociology · State (computer science) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration