Narrative Criminology #2: Power and Resistance in Intersecting Institutional and Personal Narratives

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Stories both exercise power and have the potential to resist dominating structures – on all levels of society. This panel studies stories from tellers as different as Iraqi resettled refugees and university faculty, as well as stories from the #MeToo movement and in parole hearings. Narratives and storytelling are inevitably shaped by institutions and movements, which is to say, they are inevitably shaped by power and in relation to hierarchies of power. The panel emphasizes dimensions of power that have arguably been missing in some lines of narrative research and zooms in on the many possibilities of narrative resistance.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 73. Narrative and Visual Criminologies

Individual Presentations

• “You’re Never Given the Opportunity to Say What Really Happened”: Narrative Constructions of Un-/Worthiness of Early Release in Parole Hearings - Katie Owens-Murphy, University of North Alabama

• Shaming Narratives and the Reconstruction of Vulnerability - Sara Salman, Victoria University of Wellington

• Institutional Narrative-Making in Reporting Academic Sexual Misconduct - Sarah Silberman, University of Maryland; Rachel Ellis, University of Maryland

• A Narrative Typology of Teaching Race in Criminology and Criminal Justice - Deirdre Caputo-Levine, Idaho State University; Vanessa Lynn, Marist College

Chair

• Anja Emilie Kruse, University of Oslo, Norway

Discussant

• Danielle Arlanda Harris, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University