Introduction—Reckoning with the East
Situating scholarship from Eastern Europe and Eurasia in criminology and socio-legal studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24217996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gavin Slade (0000-0002-3279-8892), Laura Piacentini (0000-0003-3817-6012) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1944-1956 |
| Publication date | 2026-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oñati Socio-legal Series (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2079-5971 • E-ISSN: 2079-5971 |
| Publisher | Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (PUBLISHER • ES) |
| DOI | 10.35295/osls.iisl.2978 |
| OpenAlex | W7215127755 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 19 |
In July 2022, the Law and Society Association met in Lisbon to reckon with colonialism. Russia had launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine five months earlier, yet the war was barely mentioned. This introduction takes that silence as its starting point. It describes how a 2024 workshop in Oñati brought together scholars from Eastern Europe and Eurasia to ask whether frameworks built elsewhere can explain socio-legal dynamics there. We outline the Global East concept and the critiques contributors made of it. We summarize the articles and a Latin American commentary. Three themes recur. Positions of colonizer and colonized are unstable. The effects of imperial and state-socialist legacies depend on how they are activated. States perform legitimacy or compliance for audiences that reflect their place in the world economy. We conclude that the Global East is best understood as a problem space that extends southern criminology to nested and reversible relations of domination.
Colonialism · coloniality · domination · Eastern Europe · Eurasia · Global East · Global South · Imperialism · Russian invasion of Ukraine · Southern criminology · state legitimacy · Criminal Justice and Penology · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · International Law and Human Rights
Punishment, wars and extreme violence in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Punitiveness in the global east
The changing landscape of legal gender recognition in the post-Soviet region
Socialism Goes Global
Russia’s recolonization war against Ukraine
Exhibitionist violence
In Search of the Global East
A criminology of the postsocialist East
Compliance performance
The shadow of carceral collectivism
Regimes of Permission and State-Corporate Crime
Penal extractivism
Architecture and attachment
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology
Urban disorder in democratic transitions
Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality
Decolonizing Decolonization
| Highly cited | No |
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