1st Global Conference: Reframing Punishment (Opportunities and Problems)
1st Global Conference
Reframing Punishment
Monday 3rd September ? Wednesday 5th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford
Call for Papers:
The concept of punishment has a long history and
diverse cultural, social and criminological
meanings. Research and debate is often focused on
the offender, the offence, the state and legal
codification. In contrast, this project seeks to
re-frame these debates in order to combine the
insights they produce with broader cultural
meanings, social representations and ritualistic
or other activities. Therefore, the aim of the
project is to develop different ways of
understanding the penetration and complexity of
shared understandings of punishment from a variety
of perspectives, approaches and practitioner
experiences. Reframing the debate might be done
through papers aimed the personal or social
levels. We encourage unique approaches to
punishment in terms of boundary control, whether
it is control of evil, the politically subversive,
the economically disruptive, or punishment in
pursuit of system stability or marginalisation of
liminality. Papers might also cover punishment
issues relating to defining the contours of
disgust, desire, dread, or the abject. They may
even consider the operation and consequences of
both wrongdoing and various forms of
societal/social punishment. Accordingly the
project welcomes papers, work-in-progress and
pre-formed panels from diverse areas of study such
as the humanities, social sciences, business,
science, law schools and the arts, as well as
practitioners.
Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are
invited on issues broadly related to any of the
following themes:
* Cultural (including cross-/inter-cultural)
notions of what constitutes punishment
* Religious/spiritual punishment, asceticism,
whether self-inflicted or externally imposed
* Pain, fear and corporal punishment
* Punishment, public services and performance
measurement
* Punishment and child development/child rearing
* Punishment rituals
* Punishing the body for pleasure
(modification, BDSM, smoking, etc)
* Punishing the body in the name of beauty and
fashion
* Representations of punishment in
contemporary times and across historical periods
* Theories of punishment and deviants: What is
punishment's purpose? Ideal methods? Is punishment
limited to humans? What about animals or nature,
and in some societies, why is imprisonment such a
key form of punishment?
* Proportionality, materiality and other
concepts used to administer punishment(s)
* Shame, forgiveness, vengeance, retribution
and punishment
* The limits of punishment: whether controlled
by the state, institutions or groups, including
sports groups, cults, gangs, the military, etc.
* Shifting social attitudes toward punishment
* Self-harm, abuse and control
* Space and its role in enhancing or
ameliorating punishment
* The relationship(s) between discipline and
punishment
Papers on any other topic related to the theme
will also be considered.
This project will run concurrently with our
project on Space and Place? we welcome any papers
considering the problems or addressing issues on
Reframing Punishment and Space and Place for a
cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed
panels on any aspect of Reframing Punishment or in
relation to crossover panel(s).
This project will run concurrently with our
project on Space and Place ? we welcome any papers
considering the problems or addressing issues on
Reframing Punishment and Space and Place for a
cross-over panel. The Steering Group particularly
welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel
proposals. 300 word abstracts should be submitted
by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper
should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to
all Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following
information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 key words
E-mails should be entitled: PUNISH Abstract
Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts
is planned for the end of the year. All accepted
abstracts will be included in this publication. We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did not
receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs:
Shona Hill & Shilinka Smith
Conference Leaders
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
New Zealand
E-mail: [email protected]
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
The conference is part of the Probing the
Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.All
papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for
development for publication in a themed hard copy
volume(s)
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/reframing-
punishment/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/reframing-
punishment/call-for-papers/
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