... The second quotation from Hayter provides some evidence for this point given current response... more ... The second quotation from Hayter provides some evidence for this point given current responses to asylum seekers and refugees in ... Liam Byrne MP and ex-Home Office Minister espouses communitarian principles of shared values and responsibilities, that 'individuals do best ...
This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England i... more This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England in November 2013 and March 2014 on the possibilities for thinking through what a change movement towards slow might mean for the University. Slow movements have emerged in relation to a number of topics: Slow food, Citta slow and more recently, slow science. What motivated us in the seminars was to explore how far these movements could help us address the acceleration and intensification of work within our own and other universities, and indeed, what new learning, research, philosophies, practices, structures and governance might emerge. This editorial introduction presents the concept of the "slow university" and introduces our critical engagements with slow. The articles presented here interrogate the potentialities, challenges, problems and pitfalls of the slow university in an era of corporate culture and management rationality.
The article explores the use and importance of taking a biographical approach to conducting parti... more The article explores the use and importance of taking a biographical approach to conducting participatory action research (PAR) with asylum seekers and refugees in order to: better understand lived experiences of exile and belonging; contribute to the important field of Biographical Sociology; provide a safe space for stories to be told; and in turn for these stories to feed in to policy and praxis. The authors’ combined work on the asylum-migration nexus, the politics of representation and participatory action research methodology (PAR) as ethno-mimesisi argues for the use of biography to contribute to cultural politics at the level of theory, experience and praxis, and is constitutive of critical theory in praxis. PAR research undertaken with Bosnian refugees in the East Midlands and Afghan refugees in London will be the focus around which our analysis develops. We develop a case for theory building based upon lived experience using biographical materials, both narrative and visua...
Applying the concept of slow to the university, in the context of increasing marketisation, manag... more Applying the concept of slow to the university, in the context of increasing marketisation, managerialism and performance management, enables us to focus upon our experiences of work, time and well-being, the increasing pace and tempo of academic life and the very meaning of the university in current times. In this article, the possibilities for being slowly radical are examined through a critical theoretical and psycho-social lens. Drawing upon Isabel MENZIES LYTH (1988 [1959]) I argue that the success and indeed well-being of the modern university is intimately connected to techniques used to contain anxiety. Confronting anxiety materially, discursively and symbolically involves addressing issues of governance and well-being through providing opportunities for more dialogue and spaciousness. The final section of this article makes recommendations for taking forward sociological research in this area utilising critical, participatory, biographical and performative methodologies.
This paper focuses upon the transformative role of art and the methodological approach of working... more This paper focuses upon the transformative role of art and the methodological approach of working with artists to conduct ethnographic research with refugees and asylum seekers. In exploring the space or hyphen between ethnography (sociology) and arts based practice (photos, installations, textual practice) I suggest that the combination of biography/narrative (ethnography) and art (mimesis) becomes a "potential space" for transformative possibilities. More specifically, draw- ing upon Walter BENJAMIN's (1992) The Storyteller I will discuss the methodological contribution of combining biography/narrative with art forms (ethno-mimesis) in creating a "potential space", a reflective/safe space for dialogue and narratives to emerge around the themes of transnational identities, home and belonging. The importance of renewing methodologies for the work we do within the area of forced migration, humiliation, "egalization" and human rights (LINDNER, 2006), ...
This paper focuses upon renewed methodologies for social research in order to explore and re-pres... more This paper focuses upon renewed methodologies for social research in order to explore and re-present the complexity of lived relations in contemporary society. Renewed methodologies can transgress conventional or traditional ways of analysing and representing research data. This paper combines socio-cultural theory; experience (life stories); and practice (exhibition/performance) defined as ethno-mimesis to explore and better understand key themes and issues evolving from ethnographic work with female prostitutes. By focusing upon life history work with women working as prostitutes and by experiencing women's stories represented through live art we can further our understanding of the complexity of sex, sexualities, desire, violence, masculinities and the relevance of the body – the gendered body, the imaginary body, the performative body, the social body – within the context of post modern times, de-traditionalization, and what Stejpan Meštrović calls ‘postemotionalism’ and com...
... Young locates this chapter in her wider body of knowledge and forthcoming book and her partic... more ... Young locates this chapter in her wider body of knowledge and forthcoming book and her particular interest 'in the cinematic scene of violence and the ways in which the spectator's encounter with that scene has implications for the theorization of law, judgment and justice ...
... European initiatives and the global 'cri-sis' includes: Asylum and Immigration Acts... more ... European initiatives and the global 'cri-sis' includes: Asylum and Immigration Acts 1996 and 1999; Human Rights Act 1998 ... and also in the ways that the police felt supported and part of the positive vision for the ... Brah, A. (1996) Cartographies of the Diaspora: Contesting Identities ...
Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, 2008
Combining theoretical analysis and insights, original empirical research and practice, the collec... more Combining theoretical analysis and insights, original empirical research and practice, the collection explores the continuities and changes given the complex global realities that stem from the intricate interplay of gender, migration and citizenship, and the inclusions ...
... The second quotation from Hayter provides some evidence for this point given current response... more ... The second quotation from Hayter provides some evidence for this point given current responses to asylum seekers and refugees in ... Liam Byrne MP and ex-Home Office Minister espouses communitarian principles of shared values and responsibilities, that 'individuals do best ...
This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England i... more This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England in November 2013 and March 2014 on the possibilities for thinking through what a change movement towards slow might mean for the University. Slow movements have emerged in relation to a number of topics: Slow food, Citta slow and more recently, slow science. What motivated us in the seminars was to explore how far these movements could help us address the acceleration and intensification of work within our own and other universities, and indeed, what new learning, research, philosophies, practices, structures and governance might emerge. This editorial introduction presents the concept of the "slow university" and introduces our critical engagements with slow. The articles presented here interrogate the potentialities, challenges, problems and pitfalls of the slow university in an era of corporate culture and management rationality.
The article explores the use and importance of taking a biographical approach to conducting parti... more The article explores the use and importance of taking a biographical approach to conducting participatory action research (PAR) with asylum seekers and refugees in order to: better understand lived experiences of exile and belonging; contribute to the important field of Biographical Sociology; provide a safe space for stories to be told; and in turn for these stories to feed in to policy and praxis. The authors’ combined work on the asylum-migration nexus, the politics of representation and participatory action research methodology (PAR) as ethno-mimesisi argues for the use of biography to contribute to cultural politics at the level of theory, experience and praxis, and is constitutive of critical theory in praxis. PAR research undertaken with Bosnian refugees in the East Midlands and Afghan refugees in London will be the focus around which our analysis develops. We develop a case for theory building based upon lived experience using biographical materials, both narrative and visua...
Applying the concept of slow to the university, in the context of increasing marketisation, manag... more Applying the concept of slow to the university, in the context of increasing marketisation, managerialism and performance management, enables us to focus upon our experiences of work, time and well-being, the increasing pace and tempo of academic life and the very meaning of the university in current times. In this article, the possibilities for being slowly radical are examined through a critical theoretical and psycho-social lens. Drawing upon Isabel MENZIES LYTH (1988 [1959]) I argue that the success and indeed well-being of the modern university is intimately connected to techniques used to contain anxiety. Confronting anxiety materially, discursively and symbolically involves addressing issues of governance and well-being through providing opportunities for more dialogue and spaciousness. The final section of this article makes recommendations for taking forward sociological research in this area utilising critical, participatory, biographical and performative methodologies.
This paper focuses upon the transformative role of art and the methodological approach of working... more This paper focuses upon the transformative role of art and the methodological approach of working with artists to conduct ethnographic research with refugees and asylum seekers. In exploring the space or hyphen between ethnography (sociology) and arts based practice (photos, installations, textual practice) I suggest that the combination of biography/narrative (ethnography) and art (mimesis) becomes a "potential space" for transformative possibilities. More specifically, draw- ing upon Walter BENJAMIN's (1992) The Storyteller I will discuss the methodological contribution of combining biography/narrative with art forms (ethno-mimesis) in creating a "potential space", a reflective/safe space for dialogue and narratives to emerge around the themes of transnational identities, home and belonging. The importance of renewing methodologies for the work we do within the area of forced migration, humiliation, "egalization" and human rights (LINDNER, 2006), ...
This paper focuses upon renewed methodologies for social research in order to explore and re-pres... more This paper focuses upon renewed methodologies for social research in order to explore and re-present the complexity of lived relations in contemporary society. Renewed methodologies can transgress conventional or traditional ways of analysing and representing research data. This paper combines socio-cultural theory; experience (life stories); and practice (exhibition/performance) defined as ethno-mimesis to explore and better understand key themes and issues evolving from ethnographic work with female prostitutes. By focusing upon life history work with women working as prostitutes and by experiencing women's stories represented through live art we can further our understanding of the complexity of sex, sexualities, desire, violence, masculinities and the relevance of the body – the gendered body, the imaginary body, the performative body, the social body – within the context of post modern times, de-traditionalization, and what Stejpan Meštrović calls ‘postemotionalism’ and com...
... Young locates this chapter in her wider body of knowledge and forthcoming book and her partic... more ... Young locates this chapter in her wider body of knowledge and forthcoming book and her particular interest 'in the cinematic scene of violence and the ways in which the spectator's encounter with that scene has implications for the theorization of law, judgment and justice ...
... European initiatives and the global 'cri-sis' includes: Asylum and Immigration Acts... more ... European initiatives and the global 'cri-sis' includes: Asylum and Immigration Acts 1996 and 1999; Human Rights Act 1998 ... and also in the ways that the police felt supported and part of the positive vision for the ... Brah, A. (1996) Cartographies of the Diaspora: Contesting Identities ...
Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, 2008
Combining theoretical analysis and insights, original empirical research and practice, the collec... more Combining theoretical analysis and insights, original empirical research and practice, the collection explores the continuities and changes given the complex global realities that stem from the intricate interplay of gender, migration and citizenship, and the inclusions ...
New Arrivals: participatory action research, imagined communities and 'vision&am... more New Arrivals: participatory action research, imagined communities and 'vision's of social justice. Authors: Maggie O'Neill, Philip A. Woods and Mark Webster For 'Emerging Imaginaries of Regulation, Control and Oppression' special issue of.
Taking the notion of transgression – the breaking of boundaries – as its starting point, this boo... more Taking the notion of transgression – the breaking of boundaries – as its starting point, this book brings a fresh approach to cultural criminology by exploring representations of the transgressive in fictive texts and ethnographic research. Chapters focus on topics of urgent contemporary interest, including school shooters, violent female avengers, sex workers, those labelled 'mad', serial killers, asylum seekers and skid row residents. The book is interdisciplinary in scope, blending insights from film and media studies, literary criticism and psycho-social analysis with cultural criminology. It also presents cutting edge, participatory arts-based ethnography carried out in the UK and Canada.
In November 2018, the Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) held a workshop and launched the in... more In November 2018, the Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) held a workshop and launched the inaugural ‘Laura Lee Sex Workers’ Rights Annual Lecture’ series in conjunction with the United Kingdom Sex Work Research Hub (UKSWRH) at Trinity College Dublin. Ms Lee, a Trinity College law graduate and sex worker activist, worked courageously and tirelessly for sex workers’ rights. On that day, her friends, supporters and colleagues gathered to honour her memory and work and re-committed to continuing the work of social justice for sex workers. Addressing those present, Luca Stevenson, co-ordinator of the International Committee on Sex Workers’ Rights in Europe, reflected on how governments across European UnionMember States failed to respond appropriately to the realities of sex workers’ lives. Stevenson observed that current law and policy initiatives to tackle the ‘problem’ of prostitution ‘lack a bit of nuance about our vulnerability’. Such vulnerability stems from the social injusti...
Regulating sex for saleProstitution policy reform in the UK, 2009
This chapter looks at governance through the changing representation of prostitution's incivi... more This chapter looks at governance through the changing representation of prostitution's incivility
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2008
There is substantial literature on how fears of Other populations are prompting the increased sur... more There is substantial literature on how fears of Other populations are prompting the increased surveillance and regulation of public spaces at the heart of Western cities. Yet, in contrast to the consumer-oriented spaces of the city centre, there has been relatively little attention devoted to the quality of the street spaces in residential neighbourhoods beyond the central city. In this article, we explore how media representations of sex workers as an abject and criminalized Other inform the reactions of residents to street sex work in such communities. Drawing on our work in a number of British cities we highlight the different degrees of tolerance which residents express towards street sex work. In light of the Home Office strategy document, A Coordinated Prostitution Strategy, this article concludes by advocating participatory action research and community conferencing as a means of resolving conflicts and assuaging fears of difference.
While extensive literature documents how criminalisation harms sex workers' health and rights, li... more While extensive literature documents how criminalisation harms sex workers' health and rights, limited research has critically examined how interactions between criminal-justice, health, and other systems shape support and justice for and by people who sell sex. We attend to this question by drawing on participatory, qualitative research with a diverse group of sex workers and other stakeholders in East London, UK. In addition to directly and structurally-violent enforcement practices, we identified wider, necropolitical assemblages and practices-across police, local and immigration authorities, health and social services-that disciplined sex workers' lives, responsibilised them for their health, and defunded specialist services grounded in lived realities, amid tensions over sex-work governance. These effects-grounded in notions of community and vulnerability that often privileged residents' concerns over threats to sex workers' safety and health-impacted marginalised and minoritised cis and trans women the most. Those who worked on the street and used drugs, were migrants, and/or women of colour were particularly targeted for enforcement, discounted when reporting violence and impacted by service cuts. Yet participants' appeals for redirection of funds from enforcement towards respectful, peer-led services reflected claims to social justice on their own terms. We recommend (re)commissioning health and support services that respond to sex workers' diverse realities, with and by them, alongside concerted efforts to end policies and practices that criminalise, punish, and blame. This would help to alleviate the health and social harms that we document, in support of inclusive participation in health and broader social justice goals.
The Republic of Ireland is a good case study to highlight the problems associated with uncriti... more The Republic of Ireland is a good case study to highlight the problems associated with uncritical appeals to criminal law as the only appropriate tool to tackle demand and protect sex workers from harm. In 2017, the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act came into force in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter Ireland) making it a criminal offence to purchase sex in the jurisdiction. Ireland’s decision to introduce Swedish-style laws followed a protracted public campaign instigated in 2009 by the Irish and radical fem- inist inspired neo-abolitionist organisation, Turn off the Red Light. In this article, we confront and de-centre the Turn off the Red Light campaign’s hegemonic narrative that the criminal rather than social justice responses provide a more effective vehicle for sex workers’ empowerment. Undertaking our intervention in Irish feminist prostitution politics as a ‘politics of doing’ social justice through our separate and combined research, we extend our analysis by invoking Nancy Fraser and Barbara Hudson’s the- oretical work on social and restorative justice. We wish to develop a theoretical framework that can serve as a roadmap for restorative social justice – the process of achieving rights, recognition and redistribution through relational, reflective and discur- sive interventions in sex work research, policy and practice. We argue that by ‘thinking’ sex workers’ positionality in social relations differently, the ‘doings’ of restorative social justice for sex workers can begin or take place.
This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England i... more This thematic section emerged from two seminars that took place at Durham University in England in November 2013 and March 2014 on the possibilities for thinking through what a change movement towards slow might mean for the University. Slow movements have emerged in relation to a number of topics: Slow food, Citta slow and more recently, slow science. What motivated us in the seminars was to explore how far these movements could help us address the acceleration and intensification of work within our own and other universities, and indeed, what new learning, research, philosophies, practices, structures and governance might emerge. This editorial introduction presents the concept of the "slow university" and introduces our critical engagements with slow. The articles presented here interrogate the potentialities, challenges, problems and pitfalls of the slow university in an era of corporate culture and management rationality.
Welcome to walkingborders.com a website that documents and shares the walks undertaken by Maggi... more Welcome to walkingborders.com a website that documents and shares the walks undertaken by Maggie O’Neill as part of her Leverhulme Research Fellowship with a specific focus on borders, risk and belonging.
‘Ghosts of our future’ a web site dedicated to sharing a project funded in 2014-2015 by the Arts... more ‘Ghosts of our future’ a web site dedicated to sharing a project funded in 2014-2015 by the Arts Council UK and HMP Durham library and documenting and supporting walking as a method for doing criminological research on the history of crime, justice and punishment in Durham city.
‘Ghosts of our future’ was a pilot project led by Sheila Mulhern, writer in residence at HMP Durham and Jackie Woods, HMP Durham Library, working with prisoners, artists and Maggie O'Neill and Ivan Hill.
The project sought to forge positive links between the prison and the outside world and develop better understanding of the history of crime, justice and punishment in Durham city by using creative writing, storytelling, photography and walking.
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‘Ghosts of our future’ was a pilot project led by Sheila Mulhern, writer in residence at HMP Durham and Jackie Woods, HMP Durham Library, working with prisoners, artists and Maggie O'Neill and Ivan Hill.
The project sought to forge positive links between the prison and the outside world and develop better understanding of the history of crime, justice and punishment in Durham city by using creative writing, storytelling, photography and walking.