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Lauren Martin

@llmartin.bsky.social

Human Geographer: Refuge, Asylum, Borders, Carceral Economies, Abolition Geographies. Airedale Owner. Immigrant. Durham University. Chair: RGS Carceral Geographies Working Group

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Really excited about these @carceralgeography.bsky.social sponsored sessions at @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference next week. πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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Creating in Confinement 2025 Creating in Confinement: Co-production, Creative Methods and Carceral Geographies Workshop Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. University of Birmingham, UK, Room TBC. Registration: Worksh…

for those of us working on asylum accommodation, detention and bordered contexts, the workshop will open up conversations around the role of lived experience leadership in producing knowledge about spaces of confinement. Please join us! carceralgeographies.co.uk/creating-in-...

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Prisoner Leaders This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.

This book seeks to change that--check it out. Can't wait to hear more about her work!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Prisoner Leaders This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.

We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.

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Creating in Confinement 2025 Creating in Confinement: Co-production, Creative Methods and Carceral Geographies Workshop Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. University of Birmingham, UK, Room TBC. Registration: Worksh…

For details on the workshop, follow @carceralgeography.bsky.social and see our website here: carceralgeographies.co.uk/creating-in-...

09.06.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beyond Porridge by Maria Adams, Jon Garland, Vicki Harman, Daniel McCarthy, Erin Power and Talitha Brown, Jon Watts | Waterstones Buy Beyond Porridge by Maria Adams, Jon Garland, Vicki Harman, Daniel McCarthy, Erin Power and Talitha Brown, Jon Watts from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FRE...

Reading up on our keynote speakers' amazing work ahead of the @carceralgeography.bsky.social workshop in August. Very inspired by Maria Adams' Doing Porridge project, which produced this cookbook. Can't wait to learn more: www.waterstones.com/book/beyond-...

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The Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) are honoring the work of our international network at our August "Creating in Confinement" workshop.

If you have published/edited a book, article, or creative work over the last academic year, let us know by sumbitting sugestions using the link below!

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We have received submissions from Politics, Law, Sociology, Criminology, Anthropology, Art History and multiple sub-disciplines of human geography. Please share widely!

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Prizes The Carceral Geography Working Group are pleased to announce two new prizes to recognise student research. Prizes will be awarded for the Best Undergraduate Dissertation and the Best Postgraduate P…

Are you working with a talented student on a project broadly engaging with carceral geographies? Consider nominating them for our annual UG dissertation prize.

Non-geography and international submissions very warmly welcomed!

Deadline: 15 July, 2025
carceralgeographies.co.uk/prizes/

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