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Another World is Possible. That’s the proposition at the heart of this conversation with Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan, University College London, hosted Dr Peter Doran, QUB School of Law, touching on everything from the role of art in social change to the challenge of avoiding imaginative closure within the academy.

Working all over the world, Mulgan’s main focus is on how to get governments and other organisations to function well and how to create and find good ideas. This conversation focuses on themes from his books, Another World is Possible: How to reignite radical political imagination (C.Hurst and Co, 2022) and his latest work, Prophets at a Tangent: How Art Shapes Social Imagination (Elements in Creativity and Imagination) (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Further Information

https://www.geoffmulgan.com/

Dr Peter Doran

In this final episode of our mini-series exploring the edited collection Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or Non-Field) (Routledge, 2022), Dr Matthew Evans speaks to Dr Lauren Dempster about his chapter in the collection: ‘Beyond Disciplines, Beyond Fields, Beyond Transitional Justice.’ Dr Evans introduces this chapter, discusses the dominance of law in transitional justice and explores the potential value of a postdisciplinary approach to TJ. 

Information on the edited collection can be found here.

 You can access Dr Evans’s University profile here and Orcid here.

 Other publications referred to in this episode: 

Evans, M. (2021) ‘You cannot eat critique: on uncritical critical (legal) theory and the poverty of bullshit,’ European Journal of Legal Studies 13(1). https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/99731/

Evans, M. (2020) ‘Interdisciplinarity and punishment in the academy: reflecting upon researching and teaching human rights in university settings,’ Journal of Human Rights Practice, 12(3). https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaa048

Koram, K. Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press, 2022). https://www.johnmurraypress.co.uk/titles/kojo-koram/uncommon-wealth/9781529338621/

Sayer, A. (2000) ‘For Postdisciplinary Studies: Sociology and the Curse of Disciplinary Parochialism/Imperialism.’ In For Sociology: Legacies and Prospects, eds. J. Eldridge, J. Maclnnes, S. Scott, C. Warhurst, and A.Witz, pp. 83–91 (Durham: Sociologypress) https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/19170

In this special series of LawPod we introduce a recently published edited collection, Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or Non-Field), edited by Dr Matthew Evans (University of Sussex) and published by Routledge in 2022.

In this third episode, QUB School of Law PhD candidate, Daniela Suarez Vargas, interviews Dr Rachel Killean and Dr Lauren Dempster about their chapter in this collection: “Greening’ Transitional Justice.’ They discuss the relationship between armed conflict and environmental harm, unpack several of the reasons why they think transitional justice has to date overlooked this type of harm, and draw on the green criminology literature to consider how transitional justice might better address conflict-related environmental harm. 

Information on the edited collection can be found here.

You can read more of Rachel and Lauren’s research in this area here:

Killean, R. & Dempster, L. (2022) ‘Mass Violence, Environmental Harm and the Limits of Transitional Justice,’ Genocide Studies and Prevention 16(1), 11-39. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol16/iss1/5/

In this special series of LawPod we introduce a recently published edited collection, Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or Non-Field), edited by Dr Matthew Evans (University of Sussex) and published by Routledge in 2022.

In this second episode, Dr Dáire McGill (University of Oxford) tells us about his chapter in the collection, ‘Transforming Experiences of Citizen Security?’ Dáire introduces the concept of citizen security and its relevance to transitional and transformative justice through engendering participatory processes and strengthening state-citizen relationships, drawing on the case studies of Colombia and Northern Ireland.

Information on the edited collection can be found here.

Listeners may be interested in Dáire’s other work:

McGill, D. (2022) ‘Reduciendo la violencia estructural mediante la justicia transformativa’ in Gutiérrez Danton, J.A., Hoddy, E., and McGill, D. (Eds.) Justicia transformativa y cuestión agraria. Medellín: Universidad Santo Tomas Ediciones [forthcoming in Spanish].

McGill, D. (2022) ‘Transforming Experiences of Citizen Security?’ in Evans, M. (Ed.) Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or non-field). Abingdon: Routledge.

McGill, D. (2020) ‘Book Review: From Transitional to Transformative Justice’. Social and Legal Studies, Vol. 29:6, pp925-928.

McGill, D. (2019) ‘Tackling Structural Violence Through The Transformative Justice Framework’ in Evans, M. (Ed.) Transitional and Transformative Justice: Critical and International Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge.

McGill, D. (2017) ‘Different Violence, Different Justice? Taking Structural Violence Seriously in Post-Conflict and Transitional Justice Processes’. State Crime Journal Special Issue on Post-Conflict Reconstruction, the Crimes of the Powerful and Transitional Justice, Vol. 6:1, pp79-101.

In this special series of LawPod we introduce a recently published edited collection, Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or Non-Field), edited by Dr Matthew Evans (University of Sussex) and published by Routledge in 2022.

In this first episode, Dr Evans introduces the collection, discusses some of its key themes, and tells us about the background to, and experience of, preparing this edited volume.

Information on the edited collection can be found here.

You can access Dr Evans’s University profile here and Orcid here. 

Other publications referred to in this episode:

Bell, C. (2009) ‘Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the Field (or Non-Field),’ International Journal of Transitional Justice 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijn044

 Evans, M. (2016) ‘Structural Violence, Socioeconomic Rights and Transformative Justice,’ Journal of Human Rights 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2015.1032223

Evans, M. Transformative Justice: Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition (Routledge, 2018). https://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780815375623

Transitional and Transformative Justice: Critical and International Perspectives, ed. Matthew Evans (Routledge, 2019). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351068321

In a frank and open conversation, lawpodders Zoe and Charlotte talk to Professor John Barry about climate change and climate activism in this era of climate crisis.

From advocating for combining street activism with legal activism as a means to challenge governments, corporations and institutions to criticising the neoliberal framing of the climate crisis, the wide-ranging conversation calls for fundamental change in all parts of our society. It is a clarion call to action for academics, students and the wider community.

Professor John Barry - https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/john-barry

Production Team

Zoe Cleland

Charlotte Gourley

In this episode, the latest in a series providing a closer look at the lives and careers of members of the QUB law faculty, LawPod participant Peter Lockhart interviews Dr Andrew Godden.

Their conversation provides an insight into a fascinating journey, from leaving school at 17 to becoming the first member of his family to attend university and eventually being awarded the James MacQuitty Law Scholarship and becoming a lecturer at Queen’s.

The spine of the conversation explores Dr Godden's passion for a range of widening participation initiatives with which he has been involved, highlighting their paramount importance within further education.

In this episode, Dr Amanda Kramer interviews Dr Matt Bowden (Technological University Dublin) about his recently published book ‘Rural Transformations and Rural Crime’ (2022) co-edited with Alistair Harkness. Matt explains to the listeners that what rural criminology is and why it is an important area of study. He explains that, while it is a relatively new area, rural criminologists are doing important work to try to understand crime, victimisation, criminal behaviours, and their impacts in rural areas. He outlines some of the key themes that emerge in the book and discusses the chapter he co-authored with his current PhD student, Artur Pytlarz, which aims to further develop the theoretical perspectives informing rural criminological research.

This is the final episode in a special series of LawPod recorded at the European Society of Criminology Conference in Malaga, Spain, in September 2022. You can listen to the rest of the series https://lawpod.org/taking-lawpod-on-tour/.

References:

Donnermeyer, J. F. and DeKeseredy, W. S. (2014) Rural Criminology. New York: Routledge.

Donnermeyer, J.F. ed. (2016) The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Criminology. London: Routledge.

Harkness, A., Peterson, J., Bowden, M. Pedersen, C. and Donnermeyer, J.F. eds (2022) The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Bristol: Bristol University Press

Links:

International Society for the Study of Rural Crime https://issrc.net/

In this episode, Dr Lauren Dempster interviews Dr Natalia Maystorovich Chulio (University of Sydney) about her research on the recovery of those disappeared under the Franco regime in Spain.  Natalia discusses the efforts made by the families of those disappeared to locate and exhume the graves of their loved ones, and the challenges they face. Focusing on the case of the Mandieta family from Guadalajara (Spain), Natalia considers the role and potential of legal internationalisation for those seeking to recover the remains of their disappeared loved ones.

This episode is the third in a special series of LawPod recorded at the European Society of Criminology Conference in Malaga, Spain, in September 2022. For the rest of this series please see https://lawpod.org/taking-lawpod-on-tour/.

 Related publications: 

Maystorovich Chulio, N. (2022, forthcoming). Democratising Collective Memory through Forensic Exhumations in Spain, Australian Journal of Politics and History.

Maystorovich Chulio, N., Pacheco Vila, R. (2019). Exhumando fosas en Espana: Alcala del Valle Cadiz. In Victor Ataliva, Aldo A. Geronimo and Ruy D. Zurita (eds.), Arqueologia Forense y Processos de Memorias: Saberes y reflexiones desde las practica, (pp. 165-186). Tucuman, Argentina: Universidad Nacional del Tucuman.

Maystorovich Chulio, N. (2017). Challenges to the Movement to Exhume the Missing Victims of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Dictatorship. In Chrisje Brants, Susanne Karstedt (eds.), Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere: Engagement, Legitimacy and Contestation, (pp. 285-305). Oxford: Hart Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509900190.ch- 

Maystorovich Chulio, N. (2016). Victims, Silence and the Exhumation of Mass Graves. In Robert Hermanson, Clare Mumford (eds.), Giving Voice to Silence, (pp. 23-33). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. 2015

 Maystorovich Chulio, N. (2015). Challenging the discourses of the past through the exhumation of mass graves in Spain. NEXUS - Newsletter of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), 27, 36-37.

In this episode, Dr Amanda Kramer interviews Dr María Laura Böhm (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany). This episode explores María Laura’s research on extractive industry activity in Latin America as a form of state-corporate crime. She outlines a variety of harms caused by the extractive industries that have significant consequences for the environment, individuals, and broader communities, such as environmental destruction, long term illness, displacement, and death. She explains how the causes of these harms are multifaceted and complex, but that the lack of regulation and control allows asymmetrical power relationships to flourish, enabling this type of state-corporate crime. María Laura also introduces listeners to her concept of the ‘crime of maldevelopment’ as a new way of understanding the global and regional criminogenic context, and as a new way for understanding how to implement more effective solutions.

This is the second in a special series of LawPod recorded at the European Society of Criminology Conference in Malaga, Spain, in September 2022. You can listen to the rest of the series https://lawpod.org/taking-lawpod-on-tour/.

Our interviewee, María Laura Böhm, has published extensively on this topic. Two of her recent English language publications include:

María Laura Böhm (2019) The Crime of Maldevelopment: Economic Deregulation and Violence in the Global South: https://www.routledge.com/The-Crime-of-Maldevelopment-Economic-Deregulation-and-Violence-in-the-Global/Bohm/p/book/9780367483586#

María Laura Böhm (2020) ‘Criminal Business Relationships between Commodity Regions and Industrialized Countries: The Hard Road from Raw Material to New Technology’ in Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 1(1), 34-39: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2631309X19887681

You can find more information about María Laura Böhm’s teaching and research here: https://www.jura.uni-muenchen.de/personen/b/boehm_maria_laura/index.html

https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/Mar%C3%ADaLauraB%C3%B6hm

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mar%C3%ADa-laura-b%C3%B6hm-59a6262a/?originalSubdomain=de