Lauren Martin
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Human Geographer: Refuge, Asylum, Borders, Carceral Economies, Abolition Geographies. Airedale Owner. Immigrant. Durham University. Chair: RGS Carceral Geographies Working Group
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Really excited about these @carceralgeography.bsky.social sponsored sessions at @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference next week. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
for those of us working on asylum accommodation, detention and bordered contexts, the workshop will open up conversations around the role of lived experience leadership in producing knowledge about spaces of confinement. Please join us! carceralgeographies.co.uk/creating-in-...
Creating in Confinement 2025
Creating in Confinement: Co-production, Creative Methods and Carceral Geographies Workshop Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. University of Birmingham, UK, Room TBC. Registration: Worksh…
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We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.
Prisoner Leaders
This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.
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The Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) are honoring the work of our international network at our August "Creating in Confinement" workshop.

If you have published/edited a book, article, or creative work over the last academic year, let us know by sumbitting sugestions using the link below!
We have received submissions from Politics, Law, Sociology, Criminology, Anthropology, Art History and multiple sub-disciplines of human geography. Please share widely!
Are you working with a talented student on a project broadly engaging with carceral geographies? Consider nominating them for our annual UG dissertation prize.

Non-geography and international submissions very warmly welcomed!

Deadline: 15 July, 2025
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Prizes
The Carceral Geography Working Group are pleased to announce two new prizes to recognise student research. Prizes will be awarded for the Best Undergraduate Dissertation and the Best Postgraduate P…
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