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This research seminar draws on perspectives from criminology, sociology, and performance in order to explore the relationship between the feminisation of poverty and gendered experiences of punishment within the criminal justice system. We seek to bring together scholars, practitioners, and activists to reflect on ways in which we might understand and illuminate the specific experiences of women in relation to increasingly violent austerity policies and penal systems.
Further, we aim to collectively consider strategies for organising and resisting ways in which people who are economically disenfranchised are persistently criminalised by state systems and cultural representations.
The seminar will be accompanied by Clean Break Theatre Company’s production of Sweatbox. This 15 minute production, performed in a decommissioned prison escort van, offers a provocation to consider the intersectional socio-political factors that shape many women’s experience of the criminal justice system.
Widening the debate:
The event aims to cultivate conversations and connections across people working in this area in different regions across the UK, responding to specific themes relevant to their locale.
The format of the day seeks to facilitate knowledge exchange between academics, arts practitioners and professionals from arts and criminal justice, the women’s sector, criminal justice and prison education.
Organisations will be asked to participate with a 5 minute overview on questions related to the themes of the day. These will be defined in advance and sent to delegates who sign up.
Please RSVP by Mon 24th Feb to Dr Aylwn Walsh if you wish to attend and participate in the event – (a.m.walsh1@leeds.ac.uk)
This event emerges from an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project exploring the work of Clean Break Theatre Company.