2015 annual EG conference EG Secretary change of address Recent publications by Members Call for Papers (Newsletter) British/Irish Section Conference V. News from Europe and Australia around the World Europe France Ireland Norway Portugal UK USA I. European Group Conference Resisting the Demonisation of Other’: ‘the State, Nationalism and Social Control in a Time of Crisis 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control 3rd - 6th September, 2014 Liverpool United Kingdom CALL FOR PAPERS Six years into the financial crisis that began to unfold in 2008, we have witnessed a renewed politics of Other’. Processes of exclusion have intensified due to the onslaught of ‘the ruthless welfare reforms, mass unemployment and enforced poverty. The increasing evidence of hostility towards people considered as Other’ is further evidenced by the mobilisation ‘the of the far right across Europe. Meanwhile, activists and anti-capitalists are increasingly targeted for criminalisation and placed under surveillance. Systems of social control – including both formal mechanisms such as policing and prisons and informal mechanisms, such as those organised by voluntary organisations are in a period of perpetual crisis: as – punitive responses intensify, the poor and the unemployed are responsibilised for their own poverty. Anti-immigration policies, housing repossessions, and forced debt repayment have revealed new forms of state violence and have intensified processes of othering and
2015 annual EG conference EG Secretary change of address Recent publications by Members Call for Papers (Newsletter) British/Irish Section Conference V. News from Europe and around the World Australia Europe France Ireland Norway Portugal UK USA I. European Group Conference Resisting the Demonisation of ‘the Other’: State, Nationalism and Social Control in a Time of Crisis 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control 3rd - 6th September, 2014 Liverpool United Kingdom CALL FOR PAPERS Six years into the financial crisis that began to unfold in 2008, we have witnessed a renewed politics of ‘the Other’. Processes of exclusion have intensified due to the onslaught of ruthless welfare reforms, mass unemployment and enforced poverty. The increasing evidence of hostility towards people considered as ‘the Other’ is further evidenced by the mobilisation of the far right across Europe. Meanwhile, activists and anti-capitalists are increasingly targeted for criminalisation and placed under surveillance. Systems of social control – including both formal mechanisms such as policing and prisons and informal mechanisms, such as those organised by voluntary organisations – are in a period of perpetual crisis: as punitive responses intensify, the poor and the unemployed are responsibilised for their own poverty. Anti-immigration policies, housing repossessions, and forced debt repayment have revealed new forms of state violence and have intensified processes of othering and
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