In collaboration with Frederik Rom Taxhjelm and Incarceration, I'm really excited to call for abstracts for a themed issue: 'Exceptional forms of coercive confinement – Pockets of punitiveness in the Welfare State'. Deadline for abstracts: 1st of May 2024.

Please DM or email me ([email protected]) or Frederik ([email protected]) for any questions and/or a PDF with a comprehensive outline of the themed issue. Here are the main points:

Punishment in the Nordic countries has been scrutinized for decades, both in terms of its ‘exceptionally’ humane qualities and shortcomings. This themed issue aspires to enrich this body of knowledge by expanding our comprehension of the ‘depth’ of Nordic coercive confinement.

We invite authors to draw on empirical material from coercive confinement in a broad sense, allowing them to capture ‘traditional’ spaces of confinement (such as prisons) as well as institutions that are ostensibly oriented towards welfare, but feel punitive to their residents.

The primary objective of the themed issues is to explore how the metaphor of a ’pocket’ can function as an analytical concept that aids in understanding coercive confinement in the Nordic countries.

Utilizing this metaphor allows us to analytically grasp not only punitive practices, which are ‘deep’ in both penal philosophy and practice, but also practices that simply become punitive by negligence or mistake resembling forms of institutional carelessness.

The secondary objective is to comprehend how the ‘punitive pockets’ in the Nordic countries differ from the more typical carceral experiences within each system and their overall penal ethos.

In order to increase quality and synergy between the papers, we will host a writing workshop in Copenhagen in which 10 selected papers will be presented. Participants will receive written feedback by the organisers and a panel chair, as well as feedback by other attendees.

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