Criminalisation and Citizenship
Thematic Seminar
The CrimScapes project is pleased to invite interested audiences to a two-day transdisciplinary seminar, ‘Criminalisation and Citizenship,’ which will take place at the Institute of Sociology of Jagiellonian University, and online.
Extending beyond narrow, legal conceptualisations of citizenship, this seminar offers a critical reflection on citizenship in terms of responsibilities, subjectivities and the logics regulating access to, and the content of, rights and entitlements. It asks about shifting forms of belonging and state-citizen relations in the context of expanding criminalisation – understood broadly as the application of criminal law, crime control measures and imaginaries of (il)legality in the management of discourses, practices and populations. With such a framing in mind, the seminar invites in-depth elaborations on how different communities and individuals navigate and respond to various criminalising laws and regulations, and the social, political and economic implications of such modes of responding.
It will explore complex relationships between processes of criminalisation and citizenship by asking: What citizenship models emerge in relation to European landscapes of criminalisation? What are their commonalities and differences? How do different forms of criminalisation enable or limit possibilities for activists’ mobilisation or claim-making practices?
Together with distinguished guests, the CrimScapes project invites a closer look at the emergent dynamics of citizenship and criminalisation by discussing ongoing research in different landscapes of criminalisation. In particular, we spotlight entanglements of criminalisation with borders and migration, sexual politics, and the politics of emotions.