{"id":333,"date":"2022-07-08T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/?p=333"},"modified":"2022-07-08T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T09:23:20","slug":"anthropology-of-crime-and-security-conference-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology of Crime and Security: <br>Conference Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">For the first time, the Anthropology of Security Network and the Anthropology of Crime and<br>Criminalization Network joined forces and organized a joint conference. This was driven by<br>the rationale that there is a great deal of overlap in the topics and research foci of the two<br>networks, and the convenors deemed it fruitful to bring these foci into conversation.<br>A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eventi.unibo.it\/anthro-crime-security-easa-2022\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/eventi.unibo.it\/anthro-crime-security-easa-2022\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> was set up to inform participants about the program and registration.<br>The conference took place from 17 to 19 May at the University of Bologna, Italy, at the<br>Department of History and Cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AnthroCrime-AnthroSec-Bologna-Conference-Report_2022-2.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AnthroCrime-AnthroSec-Bologna-Conference-Report_2022-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the full report as PDF<\/a> or read more below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2>The Conference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference was met with great interest. More than 70 speakers and participants came<br>from a wide range of countries from Brazil to Georgia, and shared their research and<br>analyses in the fields of security and crime. The topic attracted both early-career and<br>experienced scholars willing to share their experiences in difficult terrain, and it drew a<br>number of scholars from other disciplines such as criminology and political science, resulting<br>in fruitful interdisciplinary synergies in our discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11 panels covered a wide thematic and geographical area. Security and securitization,<br>crime and criminalization, as well as policing and other adjacent themes were discussed in a<br>historical dimension, beyond the human, in the post-colony, in terms of state and public<br>responses and moral ambivalences (see the list of panels in the program).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panels were complemented by a book presentation session comprising author<br>presentations of three relevant books: Deniz Yonucu\u2019s monograph <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/isbn\/9781501762178\/html?lang=en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/isbn\/9781501762178\/html?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Police, Provocation,<br>Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul<\/a>; Clara Rigoni\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Honour-Based-Violence-and-Forced-Marriages-Community-and-Restorative-Practices\/Rigoni\/p\/book\/9780367505974\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Honour-Based-Violence-and-Forced-Marriages-Community-and-Restorative-Practices\/Rigoni\/p\/book\/9780367505974\" target=\"_blank\">Honour-Based Violence and Forced<br>Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe<\/a>; and Mafia Raj: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=26661\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=26661\" target=\"_blank\">The rule of<br>bosses in South Asia<\/a>, co-authored by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David<br>Picherit, Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud, and Clarinda Still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, two laboratories were organized by the Anthropology of Security network. The<br>\u201cMethods Lab\u201d was dedicated to the various challenges of ethnography in the field of<br>security and crime, and was organized according to the World Caf\u00e9 model. The Lab included<br>exchanges on topics such as rapport, secrecy, power relations, experimentation, methods<br>\u2018on the move\u2019, visual &amp; sensorial methods, the body in fieldwork, decolonizing methods, and<br>interdisciplinarity in the study of crime and security, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cWriting Lab\u201d discussed ways of ethnographic writing about security and crime, with a<br>particular focus on drawing as an ethnographic method. The participants discovered the<br>advantages of drawing ethnography, became familiar with examples of such ethnographies,<br>and carried out an applied exercise under the guidance of Dr Monika Weissensteiner,<br>exchanging impressions afterwards. Both labs were praised by participants for the space<br>they created for dialogue, exchange, and experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference began and ended with keynotes given by renowned scholars of security and<br>crime. The first keynote was given by Mark Maguire from Maynooth University (Ireland) (in<br>collaboration with Setha Low), and was titled \u201cDefund Security: Counter-terrorism and<br>Security Capitalism\u201d. The final keynote was given by Dennis Rodgers (The Graduate<br>Institute, Geneva, Switzerland): \u201cDelinquent ethnography? 25 years of gang research in<br>Nicaragua and elsewhere\u201d. Both keynotes were followed by Q&amp;A sessions that were<br>engaging and fruitful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the conference, the last session was used to summarize the main themes and<br>issues that emerged from the panels, laboratories, and keynotes, and to address questions.<br>As network convenors, we are very satisfied with this event and received positive feedback<br>from several participants. The on-site organization by Davide Casciano (AnthroCrime) and<br>his team of fourteen volunteers was excellent, the atmosphere during the conference was<br>very constructive and provided a great space for researchers to share their work and<br>network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is expected that as a result of the conference, several panels will pursue the work started<br>in Bologna and publish special issues with articles based on the conference papers. There is<br>currently a call for abstracts for a special issue in the journal Errantes of the University of<br>Bologna on the topic of the criminalization of migration, which was opened to the conference<br>participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Funding and Expenses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This conference and support to young scholars have been realized with the financial support<br>of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, the University of Bologna, the Gerda<br>Henkel Foundation, and the University of Klagenfurt. The logos were included in all printed<br>material and their support was indicated on the homepage. EASA funding was used for<br>travel costs and accommodation for precarious early-career scholars and for modically<br>compensating the labour of the students who served as volunteers. Other funding was used<br>for keynote speakers, catering, printed materials, badges, and book vouchers for the<br>volunteers. The total amount of funding used for the conference was 10.873,34 EUR (out of<br>the 11.000 pooled from different sources). EASA\u2019s contribution amounted to 3.000 EUR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1ZSdzM50F1H_owdIDB0Uu53nD4BBahNyG\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1ZSdzM50F1H_owdIDB0Uu53nD4BBahNyG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annexes<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Call for panels; call for papers; conference program; screenshot of the keynotes; poster;<br>photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the Anthropology of Security Network and the Anthropology of Crime andCriminalization Network joined forces and organized a joint conference. 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