Open AccessSouthern Criminology: Guest Editors’ Introduction
Author(s) -
Russell Hogg,
John Scott,
Máximo Sozzo
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal for crime, justice and social democracy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.36
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2202-7998
pISSN - 2202-8005
DOI - 10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i1.395
Subject(s) - knowledge production , context (archaeology) , politics , commodity , terrain , space (punctuation) , colonialism , sociology , production (economics) , criminology , media studies , political science , law , geography , archaeology , cartography , economics , knowledge management , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , market economy , macroeconomics
Knowledge is a commodity and knowledge production does not occur in a geo-political vacuum. With respect to this, it has to be argued that neo-imperialism involves economic and knowledge flows across continuous space, which is transnational and distinct from the old forms of colonialism which were based on country-to-country occupation. In the context of contemporary geo-politics, these conditions render territorial terrain as less important than discursive terrain (Lo 2011). So, how is global knowledge in the social sciences (and more specifically in criminology) produced and shared? Where does this production take place? Who are the producers? Whose experiences and whose voices are reflected in dominant academic discourses? How is knowledge disseminated and who gets access to it? These are some of the questions that the project of southern criminology seeks to tackle.\udTo access the full text of the introductory article to this special issue on southern criminology, download the accompanying PDF file