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Coming to one’s senses: knowledge production, situatedness, and vulnerability in criminological interview work.
…but they had seen my raw vulnerability first. They had been given evidence that I was putting myself in a complex physical situation – meeting with unknown men in areas I’d never been, their faces forever a blur, just like the pavement I would have to navigate – in order to listen to their stories.…
Sound and Detention: Writing about music, sound and confinement
Music becomes his bridge, a tether between displacement and possibility, a fragile articulation of belonging in a world that refuses to accommodate him. But sound is never neutral. It carries histories of violence, it registers absence, and it disrupts imposed silences
The City That Won’t Let You Sit: Sensory Criminology and Urban Pain
…Western cities govern houselessness through what I conceptualize as deliberate nociception. There is a pervasive, intentional production of sensory pain that functions as a mechanism of regulation. This governance is not primarily enacted at the level of spectacular punishment, but through mundane, everyday encounters that keep people on their feet, in their shoes, and on the…
