Introduction: Legacies of Empire
| Author | Roger Ball,Florence Seemungal,Lizzie Seal,Bharat Malkani,Lynsey Black |
| DOI | 10.1177/14624745211040652 |
| Published date | 01 December 2021 |
| Date | 01 December 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Essay |
Introduction: Legacies
of Empire
Lynsey Black
Maynooth University, Ireland
Lizzie Seal
University of Sussex, UK
Florence Seemungal
University of the West Indies Open Campus, Trinidad and
Tobago
Bharat Malkani
Cardiff University, UK
Roger Ball
University of the West of England, UK
Keywords
southern criminology, postcolonial, decolonial, empire
This special issue of Punishment & Society examines the global legacy of empire and
colonialism through its effects on the penal regimes and practices of former colonies.
The seven articles herein explore the historical patterns of colonial penal journeys as
well as their contemporary manifestations. The contributions capture the necessary inter-
disciplinary scope of such investigations, bringing together diverse perspectives from
which to interrogate punishment and the legacies of empire.
The production of ‘knowledge’in the Global North has been critiqued as the pro-
duction of a largely Anglophone and Eurocentric knowledge, one presumed to have a
universal application (Connell, 2007). This special issue seeks to ‘decentre’the
Global North through the inclusion of the historical and contemporary legacies of
the expression of penality in different postcolonial settings. Colonisation bequeaths
Corresponding author:
Lynsey Black, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Email: lynsey.black@mu.ie
Essay
Punishment & Society
2021, Vol. 23(5) 609–612
© The Author(s) 2021
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