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The ethics of queer/ing criminology: The case of the 'Prison of Love'
No full textQueer communities have historically been excluded from criminology and criminal justice studies. When they have appeared in these fields, the non-normative sexualities and genders of queer people have invariably been defined as ‘deviance’ and regulated through criminal justice practices in unjust ways. While deviant constructions of queer people have generally disappeared from criminology, more accurate understandings and less problematic representations of queer people are yet to fully take their place. \ud
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Furthermore, while across Western nations, many of the laws impacting most prominently in unjust ways on queer people (such as sodomy laws, laws governing one’s dress, and those that failed to offer protection from hate crimes) no longer exist, many queer people continue to experience injustice within the criminal justice system (Mogul et al. 2011; Buist and Lenning 2016).\ud
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In order to address these injustices, it is necessary that criminology become more responsive to, and reflective of, the needs of these communities (Ball et al. 2014; Peterson and Panfil 2014; Spade 2011; Mogul et al. 2011; Panfil 2014; Buist and Stone 2014; Buist and Lenning 2016; Dwyer et al. 2016; Woods 2014; Dwyer 2012; Dwyer 2011). A handful of criminologists have recently begun to address these issues, taking them as important components of struggles to achieve social and criminal justice. Aligning with critical criminology (a diverse subfield of criminology encompassing feminist, counter-colonial, radical, and postmodern schools of criminological thought, and focusing on issues of power, oppression, and marginalisation in the criminal justice system, and the representations of deviance that impact disproportionately on the criminal justice experiences of some groups), such work is a valuable addition to queer politics as it responds to important inequalities and injustices experienced by queer communities (DeKeseredy and Dragiewicz 2012).\ud
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In advancing such research, some of these ‘queer criminologists’ have engaged with the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools of queer studies, resulting in diverse queer criminological projects (see further Ball 2013; Ball 2014). However, as these developments are comparatively recent, debates about the value of queer work to criminology, how best to understand the notion of ‘queer’, and how ‘queer’ can most effectively be deployed within criminology – debates that might seem well-worn in other disciplines – are only now taking place. Some questions central to the development of this field are only beginning to be considered: does the queering of criminology simply require the greater representation and inclusion of queer communities within criminological thought? Does it require a more disruptive troubling of criminology itself? And are there other possibilities in the notion of ‘queer’ that ought to inform the directions pursued within the field
Neo-orthodox tradition and transition: Lama Ole Nydahl and the diamond way
Full text linkThis is a substantially extended version of the Author’s Original Manuscript (AOM) (“preprint”) Version of the book chapter, (published December 2016), with kind permission:
Scherer, Bee (2017). ‘A Neo-orthodox Buddhist Movement in Transition: The Diamond Way’. In: E. Gallagher (ed.) 2017. Visioning New and Minority Religions: Projecting the Future. London: Routledge, pp. 156-165.
The chapter was written in 2013-2014 and only marginally updated before its long-delayed publication. It largely reflects the status quo as per 2015.
Suggested quotation of the augmented web-version:
Scherer, Bee (2018). ‘Neo-orthodox Tradition and Transition: Lama Ole Nydahl and the Diamond Way’ (Extended version of ‘A Neo-orthodox Buddhist Movement in Transition: The Diamond Way’, in E. Gallagher (ed.) 2017. Visioning New and Minority Religions: Projecting the Future. London: Routledge, pp. 156-165), available online at https://info buddhism.com/Ole_Nydahl_and_Diamond_Way_B_Scherer.htm
A Work Bee
No full textPhotograph - Seven teams of horses and men at a work bee for Tom Black, putting his crops in, Athabasca, Albert
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