Sensory Criminology

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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…

International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 3

“… we are invited to…think, rethink, and unthink what justice is, feels like, tastes like, smells like, sounds like, was, and should be in a future free from racism, racialisation, and harms of apartheid”.