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“Who Speaks for Place?”

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Decolonising Criminology

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This chapter explores the place-based and place-centred approaches in epistemologies of the Global South that counter-world the “space, flow and mobilities” frameworks of the Global North. It argues that the diasporic representations of the modern world hold little relevance to Indigenous attachments to Country or their ongoing experiences of enforced mobility and confinement. We propose that decolonising Criminology involves re-centring place and conceiving ongoing threats provided by settler colonial “states of exception” that suspend the law to displace and subjugate Indigenous people.

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    Harry Blagg

  2. Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Thalia Anthony

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Blagg, H., Anthony, T. (2019). “Who Speaks for Place?”. In: Decolonising Criminology. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53247-3_3

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