Culture, Narrative and the Sensory in Research

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

This panel explores the potentials of broadening our methodological horizons in order to amplify voices of the marginalized and for expanding criminological discourse. How do we better encompass both assessments and interpretations of the researched and researcher? This endeavour, we argue, requires us to depart from conventional methodological approaches. What happens to the processes and products of research when we explore more innovative and authentic ways of engaging with the field? How does our understanding shift when we make more room for appreciating culture, foregrounding the senses, and unfolding personal narratives in ways which honour the stories of those we seek to understand? How can we authentically represent marginalised voices through means that are more reflective of, or connected to, the field? How do we encourage broader engagement with methodologies which are themselves, too often marginalised within broader criminological discourse?

Subtopic

• Topic 8: Methodologies in Criminology / Advances in Qualitative Methods (Qualitative Methods WG)

Chair

• Kate Herrity, University of Cambridge

Individual Presentations

• Sensing proximity, sensing parameters - Kate Herrity, University of Cambridge

• Shifting the Paradigm: Embracing Home Pedagogies in Southern Prison Ethnography - Kanupriya Sharma, University of Cambridge

• Seven Basic Plots? How can narrative inquiry and literary theory inform our understanding of the experiences of the children of prisoners? - David Shipley, University of Southampton

• Can we listen to what’s not yet there? Vocal and sonic methods as pathways of possibility - Lucy Cathcart Froden, University of Oslo / Malmö University