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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was such an incredible pleasure to see you all at the Group’s conference in Malmö. A true abolitionist earthquake, a space to flourish, think, organise, conspire and act against the global punitive culture! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Aug 30

#BurmaStorybook follows poet #MaungAungPwint as he manages life after imprisonment under #Myanmar ’s military government. Watch #PetrLom ’s vision of a recovering nation September 1-8 for Screen Southasia. Sign up to watch: bit.ly/ScreenSoutha...

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Jul 1

Latest issue of Justice, Power and Resistance now available, check:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

@frasoliman.bsky.social @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @unenormecampo.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social

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CONFINED @confinedproject.bsky.social · Jun 13

Yesterday we had our public #launch, where we discussed south-north partnerships and considerations when researching confined lives. 🌱

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · Apr 29

Major new report out today from SCCJR on the number of deaths in custody.

❗️Prison deaths in Scotland have surged to 64 in the last year.

bit.ly/deaths-in-cu...

Watch this short video to find out the key stats👇

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thanks to @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social @vcanning.bsky.social Greg Martin, Valeria Vegh Weiss, Biko Agozino #statecrime #repression #Myanmar

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

10/10 The challenge for reformers thus becomes how to EXPECT LESS while DEMANDING MORE. P138

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

9/10 One obvious lesson to draw from the foregoing analysis would be to expect less from times of apparent transition, to de-romanticise the ‘rise of democracy’, and ‘waves of reform’ and to debunk linear understandings of change. P138

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

8/10 We have shown how prisons in Myanmar between 2015 and 2019 brutally and systematically restricted the space for volition, compelling subjects to conform even as they occasionally resisted, protested, or complained. P141

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

7/10 Via the narratives of a range of different prisoners – both men and women, younger and older – we have come up close to the everyday travails of the incarcerated in Myanmar. We have glimpsed the hardship and the harm and tasted… the torment. P138-9

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

6/10 Our analysis took point of departure in the everyday lives and experiences of people imprisoned during a period of imagined transition. P138

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

5/10 [The occupants of] Myanmar’s prisons were subject to a regime organised and regulated according to a violent logic of subjection based on hierarchies of perceived worth and sustained by relations of exchange and diffusely distributed authority. P137

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

4/10 (T)he prisons were harsh, brutal, unfair, unequal, and unforgiving… P137

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

3/10 (T)hey were organised & regulated according to hierarchical, martial norms, where authority is distributed, corporeal, & fear-inducing, & subjection is brutal, endemic, and deliberate. P127

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

2/10 Myanmar prisons (2015-19) were geared more to human degradation than human flourishing, more to social death than political life. P127

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 24

1/10 Here I am yesterday at Books & Company in Copenhagen introducing a new co-produced book published by @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social explaining how come the Myanmar military were so easily able to weaponize the criminal justice system following the military coup in 2021. @dignitydk.bsky.social

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · Mar 31

On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.

DM me for the Zoom link.

@cahr-york.bsky.social

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Mar 31

Check out this new collection featuring the abolitionist thought of early socialists and anarchists #academicsky #prisonabolition #socialism #anarchism

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Ana Ballesteros-Pena @anaballesteros.bsky.social · Mar 26

We rally against gendered violence. Why are we silent about prisons? womensagenda.com.au/latest/we-ra...

We rally against gendered violence. Why are we silent about prisons?

If we are serious about ending violence against women, we must demand an end to the prison system that disappears and brutalises them.

womensagenda.com.au

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Mar 25

Out now!! bookstore.emerald.com/everyday-pri...

Everyday Prison Governance in Myanmar analyses prison life in Myanmar during a short-lived period of democratic transition. The accounts of former prisoners reveal the realities of everyday life illuminating survival strategies, landscapes of emotion, and power dynamics.

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Mar 17

Coming soon at my favourite Danish bookstore: www.booksandcompany.dk/events-calen...

Book Talk - Understanding prisons and imprisonment beyond the West — Books & Company

www.booksandcompany.dk

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Jan 28

New report from friends at AAPP in #Myanmar. It documents the struggles that persist for ex- prisoners after prison. As we approach the 4th anniversary of the coup it’s vital we continue to attend to the harms generated by the Junta's brutality
aappb.org?p=31062 @dignity.dk #politicalprisoners

Struggle for Survival: Resilience in The Face of Prison's Aftershocks

AAPP and DIGNITY Launch Groundbreaking Report on Post-Imprisonment Challenges in Burma (Press Release) The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners of Burma (AAPP) and DIGNITY today unveiled a p...

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Jan 25

#BookSky #poetry #deconstruction #peckham #feminism Cant wait to get into these 3 potential gems.

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Dec 20

Fantastic small book!

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Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social · Dec 20

Friends of mine have edited an important book on punishment in Latin America bookstore.emerald.com/punishment-i...

Punishment in Latin America

Challenging the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment-and-society, this collection draws on innovative theoretical perspectives to make sense of punishment, penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings, taking Latin American countries as its case studies.

bookstore.emerald.com

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