Critical Historical Criminology in the Antipodean
摘要
This chapter makes a call for a critical historical criminology of the antipodean and the Global South. By reflecting on the relationship between historical criminology and the criminologies of the Global South, the chapter proposes a research agenda for a historical criminology that is against method and which focuses on forging political alliances with critical perspectives from the South. In particular, the chapter explores the potential for politico-academic alliances between critical historical criminology and postcolonial studies, Southern theory and Indigenous research to assist us in the task of destabilising and de-Westernising Northern criminology. Such politico-academic alliances also reveal that critical historical criminology is best understood as a negation of both criminology and history and that historical criminology does not have to be understood as a new sub-discipline and academic specialism at the intersection of history and criminology. On the contrary, this chapter shows that historical criminology can be approached as a critical attempt to unthink the social sciences and to de-discipline ourselves.