1st Edition

Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism Harm, Colonialism and Decolonisation

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonisation promotes the transformation of zemiology by calling on scholars to address how colonialism and its aftermath are central to understanding and explaining social harm. The volume also discusses ways in which colonial logics are produced and reproduced in the twenty-first century. Using varied methodological... Read more

Foreword
David R. Goyes

Introduction
Edward J. Wright, James Heydon, and George Dertadian

SECTION 1: Matters of Knowledge

1 The Indigenous Condition: Kamëntšá Perspectives on Social Harm, Enduring Injustices, and Human Rights
Marcelo M. Miranda and Jully Acuña Suarez

2 Epistemic Silencing, Ignorance, and Resistance in Border Violence Research 
Evgenia Iliadou

3 Zemiology and Decoloniality: Panoptification of Victimhood and Epistemic Violence in Anti-trafficking Reporting
Avi Boukli, Georgios Papanicolaou, and Eleni Dimou

4 (Re)Imagining Zemiology: Teaching Harm through Pedagogies of Courage
Shima Shahbazi

SECTION 2: Colonial Apparatuses of Harm Production

5 The Modern State as Colonial: For a Globally Attentive Zemiology
Edward J. Wright, James Heydon, and Caitlin Bunce

6 Embedding Anti-Colonial Abolition in a Zemiology of State Policing
Simone Rowe, Leanne Dowse, and Phillip Wadds

7 Psychiatric Indifference to ‘Insane’ Prisoners in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
Paul O’Halloran-Bermingham

8 Financial Colonialism and Social Harm: The Case of YPF S.A Company as an Expression of New Forms of Economic Domination in Argentina
Nicolás Santiago Dallorso and Gabriela Seghezzo

9- Conceptualising the Digital Divide and Progressive Digitalism as Social Harms: Community Agency as the Pathway to Equitable Digital Futures
Yadira Sanchez Benitez

SECTION 3: Developments In Theory

10  Decolonising the Digital: Surveillance, Harm, and Racialisation
Jessica Elias

11 Towards a More-Than-Human Decolonial Zemiology: The City’s Colonisation of Air and Land
Kajsa Lundberg

12 Medical Anthropology and Zemia: Decolonising Culture-Bound Syndromes. Towards an Indigenous Paradigm of Social Harm Theorisation
Cringuta Irina Pelea

13 Zemiology and Anti-Colonial Pedagogy: How Social Harm Can Be Used in Decolonial and Abolitionist Teaching in Criminology
George C. Dertadian

14 Unsettling Zemiology
Lynne Copson

Biography

Edward J. Wright is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

James Heydon is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

George C. Dertadian is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales, Australia.