{"id":3773,"date":"2019-07-30T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T01:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2019-07-30T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T01:40:37","slug":"panel-violence-in-africa-towards-a-southern-criminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2019\/07\/30\/panel-violence-in-africa-towards-a-southern-criminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel:  Violence in Africa &#8211; towards a Southern Criminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/07\/John-Scott-African-group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3774\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2019\/07\/John-Scott-African-group-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CJSDRC Member, Professor John Scott was invited to La Trobe University, Department of Social Inquiry on 22 July to\u00a0head a panel on \u0152Violence and Africa: Towards a Southern Criminology\u00b9,<\/p>\n<p>This symposium focused on the on a range of problems relating to violence and Africa, including the African diaspora. While it explored issues of violence in Africa, it also explored the neo-colonial violence against Africa, and the way in which accounts of Africa are often framed with reference to narratives of violence. These issues extend to the African diaspora and ideas of migration that become intertwined with accounts of violence, while violence against refugees and migrants is often erased.<br \/>\nThrough these issues, the question of structural violence and its centrality to the articulation of a Southern Criminology that challenges existing global power relations and systems of knowledge is made central in critically rewriting accounts of the \u0152dark continent\u00b9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenters<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Scott: Towards a Southern Criminology<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Collins: These violent delights have violent ends: the righteous killing of Mlungisi Nxumalo and the interpretation of South Africa violence.<\/p>\n<p>Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi: The Geography of Crime and Violence: Exploring Queerphobic Crime and Violence in Two Southern African Countries<\/p>\n<p>Sim\u00f3ne Pl\u00fcg: Violence in Campus Protests: Exploring intergenerational trauma and the escalation of conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Crispin Hemson: Young South African men confronting violence Akuch Kuol Anyieth: Masculinity and the Negotiation of Domestic Violence in the Melbourne\u00b9s South Sudanese Australian community<\/p>\n<p>Kim Lah: The Congo, an \u0152Exemplary\u00b9 Australian, and the Massacre of Civilians in Kilwa: A Case Study of Capitalism, Structural Violence, and the Banality of Evil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJSDRC Member, Professor John Scott was invited to La Trobe University, Department of Social Inquiry on 22 July to\u00a0head a panel on \u0152Violence and Africa: Towards a Southern Criminology\u00b9, This symposium focused on the on a range of problems relating to violence and Africa, including the African diaspora. 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