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In recent years, a diverse set of groups including some of the most marginalised and vulnerable have been subjected to a range of deeply harmful policies and practices by state institutions and their corporate proxies.

We live in a world where there is increased censorship, restrictions on free speech and the criminalisation of protest and direct action. However, we also live in a time where there is growing dissent and imaginative and effective examples of resistance are emerging.

The objective of this cluster is to host a range of scholars and activists across the different disciplines who are involved in researching, campaigning and resisting state and corporate harms. Projects examine a number of global policy arenas such as welfare, policing, gender violence, prison expansion, trans rights, social housing, asylum and refugee support. It illustrates the contribution of these emerging movements for social justice in response to increasingly punitive state actions.

Projects

Emily Luise Hart - The impact of mega prisons and carceral expansion on local communities

Henry Kirby - Trans people and care as a form of resistance and activism: Developing a trans care archive

Tom Houseman- Post-positivism and the politics of knowledge; Decolonising Political Economy; Punk versus Consumerism.

Waqas Tufail - The racialisation of crime, the impact on communities and the implications for anti-racism and social policy.

Kirsty Cameron - Examining the (often negative) impact of antisocial behaviour interventions on alleged perpetrators of antisocial behaviour living within social housing.

Publications

Jones R; Hart E; Scott D (2024) ‘A pre-requisite of progress’? Prison modernisation and new prison building in England and Wales. Punishment & Society, pp. 1-20.

Cameron K-L (2024) “It feels like temporary accommodation”: the impact of antisocial behaviour interventions on alleged perpetrators’ feelings of ontological security in social housing. Housing, Theory and Society, pp. 1-20.

Cameron K-L (2024) ‘I feel so trapped’: women’s experiences of antisocial behaviour intervention in social housing. Journal of Gender Studies, pp. 1-13.