Listening to Justice, Listening to Injustice

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This panel explores and highlights the sonic dimensions of justice and injustice in a range of environments. Drawing on the recent developments around sensory criminology (McClanahan & South, 2020), the papers all pay specific and particular attention to sound and what listening can tell us about power, domination and dissent. Both sounds and their absence clearly play important roles in punishment, protest, politics and even prison programs. Directing our criminological attention to listening not only reveals often submerged dynamics of power and punishment, but it may support the project reorienting criminology, a disciplinary field born of the colonial gaze.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 72. Cultural Criminology

Individual Presentations

• Listening Criminologically: On Sound and the Sensory - Alison Young, University of Melbourne

• Clangs, bangs, structure and agency: A sensory consideration of power - Kate Zoe Herrity, University of Cambridge

• Sonic Violence and the Far Right - Liam Gillespie, University of Melbourne

• Prison Sounds and Prison Music: Sensory Punishments and Creative Releases - Murray Lee, University of Sydney

Discussant

• Justin Ellis, University of Newcastle