Brown, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-4098-2929 (2021) Truth and method in southern criminology. Critical Criminology, 29 (3). pp. 451-467. ISSN 1205-8629
Abstract
What does it mean to “do” southern criminology? What does this entail and what demands should it place on us as criminologists ethically and methodologically? This article addresses such questions through a form dialogue between the Global North and the Global South. At the center of this dialogue is a set of questions about ethical conduct in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding in human relations. These develop into a conversation that engages South Asian scholars working at the forefront of critical social science, history and theory with a foundational text of European hermeneuticist theory and practice, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method, published in 1960. Out of this exercise in communication across culture, histories and knowledge practices emerges a new kind of dialogue and a new way of thinking about ethical practice in criminology. To give such abstractions a concrete reference point, the article illustrates their possibilities and tensions through a case study of penal reform and the question of whether so-called “failed” Northern penal methods—like the prison—should be exported to the Global South. The article thus works dialogically back and forth through these scholars’ accounts of ethical conduct, research practice, the weight of history, and the work of theory with a very concrete and common criminological context in sight. The result is what might be understood as a norm of ethical engagement and an epistemology of dialogue.
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Law (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2021 16:45 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2024 08:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer (part of Springer Nature) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10612-021-09588-8 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172551 |
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