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SUMMARY:Criminal cultures and criminal figures in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet space
DESCRIPTION:March 30\, 2022\, 2-5.30 PM CET (3-6.30 PM EET) \n\nGiven the ongoing war in Ukraine\, and the crisis unfolding in the region and beyond\, this workshop wants to be in the first place a platform for discussion and reflection on how our knowledge and experience could help understand current events and future challenges\, as citizens and as academics. \nLiterature on the Soviet Gulag has an established tradition in academia and beyond (Barnes 2011\, Hardy 2016\, Klevniuk 2004\, Solzhenitsyn 1973\, Shalamov 1978). Research on prison systems in communist successor countries has also developed steadily (Pallot 2005\, Piacentini & Katz 2017\, Piacentini & Slade 2015\, Moran\, Piacentini & Pallot 2012). In this framework of crime and punishment\, research on criminal (sub)cultures has mainly focused on informal hierarchies and governance inside the prison\, as well as on the influence of social\, cultural and moral norms of the criminal world on society ‘outside’ (Varese 1998\, Slade & Azbel 2020\, Kekoshvili & Slade 2020\, Zakharova 2017\, Curro 2017\, Ferry 2021\, Cowley\, Ryan & Dunn 2015). Bringing different disciplinary\, historical and geographical perspectives in conversation with one another\, this workshop aims to provide a space to share empirical findings\, epistemological and methodological approaches\, theoretical insights\, personal experiences and future plans in research on crime and criminals as cultural and social phenomena. Contributions from anthropology\, sociology\, history and criminology will touch upon a number of interrelated questions: What is ‘specifically Soviet’ – or ‘post-Soviet’ – in criminal cultures and criminal figures populating prisons and streets of Georgia\, Russia\, Kyrgyzstan\, Moldova\, or migration settings? How have these cultures and figures transformed at different stages of Soviet history\, with the transition to capitalism at the beginning of the 1990s\, and in the three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union? What have been political and legal authorities’ approaches towards the criminal world and its cultural manifestations in different historical\, socio-political and geographical settings? And how has the criminal world responded to these approaches? \nThe workshop will also focus on the connections between prison\, criminal cultures and society. Contributions will discuss the ways in which different people and groups – youth\, women\, middle classes\, intelligentsia\, the poor – perceive the criminal world; the moral and affective underpinnings of criminal cultures; the interaction between the criminal world’s social and cultural norms and ethnicity\, citizenship\, religion\, class\, political orientation. Issues of comparability\, terminology and research ethics will be addressed too. \n\nPROGRAM\n(please check your timezone by clicking on the time) \n2-2.10: Welcome and introduction: \nCostanza Curro (University of Helsinki\, Finland) and Davide Casciano (AnthroCrime EASA Network\, University of Bologna\, Italy) \n  \n2.10-3.10: Keynote by Federico Varese\, University of Oxford\, UK: \nHow war affects crime: Reflections on history and the present of the vory v zakone \n  \n3.10-4.20: Session 1 – Crime\, criminals and punishment inside and outside prison: Perspectives from sociology\, criminology and history \nGavin Slade\, Nazarbayev University\, Kazakhstan: \n\n	Prison subculture and prison governance: Towards a framework for comparative analysis\n\n  \nRustam Urinboyev\, Lund University\, Sweden: \n\n	Uzbek transnational prisoners in Russia and their interaction with traditional prison subculture (vorovskoi mir)\n\n  \nRhiannon Dowling\, CUNY\, US: \n\n	A fishing expedition in Sochi: The popular origins of a late Soviet anti-corruption campaign\n\n  \n4.20-5.30: Session 2 – Ethics and aesthetics of criminal cultures \nVakhtang Kekoshvili\, Georgian American University\, Georgia: \n\n	The thieves in law in Georgia: Resilience\, resistance or fallen myth?\n\n  \nMaroussia Ferry\, IHEID-CCDP\, Switzerland: \n\n	The “thief-in-law” as an ambivalent moral horizon for Georgian transnational burglars\n\n  \nSvetlana Stephenson\, London Metropolitan University\, UK: \n\n	The Russian Gang and the Virtue Ethics\n\n  \nDiscussants: \nCostanza Curro\, Judith Pallot (University of Helsinki) \n\n 
URL:https://www.anthrocrime.net/event/criminal-cultures-and-criminal-figures-in-the-soviet-union-and-the-post-soviet-space/
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SUMMARY:Credible Messengers\, Lived Experience\, and the Cultural Politics of Crime
DESCRIPTION: \n\nAn AnthroCrime & VICES Hybrid Workshop \n\n\n\n🗓10 December 2026\,🕐 14:00-18:00 \nVrije Universiteit Amsterdam \nVan der Boechorststraat 7\, 1081 BT Amsterdam\nRoom MF-D146 (Atrium) or Online  \n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPLEASE REGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation (AnthroCrime) Network is delighted to relaunch with a timely and engaging workshop that brings together leading scholars\, practitioners\, students\, and community members to reflect on one of the most pressing questions in contemporary justice and social policy: \nWhose knowledge counts when addressing crime\, violence\, and social harm? \n\n\n\n\n\nAcross the world\, people with lived experience of criminalisation\, incarceration\, gang involvement\, migration control\, and social exclusion are increasingly taking on leadership roles in violence prevention\, mentoring\, advocacy\, and justice reform. Often referred to as credible messengers\, they are challenging traditional assumptions about expertise and demonstrating how lived experience can become a powerful resource for supporting individuals\, strengthening communities\, and preventing violence. \n\nThe workshop opens with a launch and book presentation of David Brotherton (The Graduate Center\, CUNY)\, Real Recognizes Real: The Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement (Temple University Press\, 2026). The book examines the emergence of credible messengers\, individuals whose authority derives from lived experience of criminalisation\, incarceration\, and community violence\, and their growing role in violence prevention\, youth mentoring\, and justice reform initiatives. \nReal Recognizes Real. The Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement\nDavid C. Brotherton\, Danny Kessler\, Bahiyyah M. Muhammad\, Rod Martinez\, and Louis Kontos.\nForthcoming Fall 2026 with Temple University Press \nThe discussion will bring researchers and practitioners into direct conversation. We are pleased to welcome David Brotherton\, alongside Robin van den Maagdenberg\, founder of ADAMAS and representative of Credible Messengers Netherlands\, and Ryan “Flaco” Rising\, founder and executive director of the West Coast Credible Messengers (University of California\, Irvine (UCI). Together with scholars from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, the University of Amsterdam\, and beyond\, they will reflect on the promises and tensions of lived experience as expertise\, exploring how credibility\, recognition\, and legitimacy are produced within contemporary systems of governance\, social intervention\, and criminal justice. \nFollowing the roundtable\, we are honoured to welcome Carolina Sánchez Boe (Brown University)\, an anthropologist\, sociologist\, filmmaker\, and visual artist whose work explores deportation\, prisons\, electronic monitoring\, facial recognition technologies\, and contemporary regimes of migration control. \nDigital Detention. For-Profit Surveillance of Migrants in the USA\nDirected and Produced by Carolina Sánchez Boe \nCarolina will present her research and introduce her documentary film Digital Detention\, followed by a screening and discussion with participants. Combining ethnographic research with documentary filmmaking\, her work provides a compelling perspective on the expanding role of digital technologies in governing mobility\, surveillance\, and confinement. \nBy bringing together academic research\, policy debates\, community practice\, and lived experience\, the workshop aims to foster conversations that extend beyond disciplinary boundaries and connect scholarship to pressing social realities. \nThe event also marks the public relaunch of the AnthroCrime Network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). We warmly welcome established scholars\, early-career researchers\, students\, practitioners\, activists\, and community organisations interested in anthropology\, criminology\, law\, migration\, and social justice to join us in shaping the future of the network. \nThe workshop is convened by Veronika Nagy (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)\, Ana Chiritoiu (Uppsala University)\, and Lene Swetzer (Geneva Graduate Institute). \nThis event is organised in collaboration with the VU Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (VICES). We gratefully acknowledge VICES for its generous financial and logistical support. We look forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam or online on 10 December 2026.
URL:https://www.anthrocrime.net/event/credible-messengers-lived-experience-and-the-cultural-politics-of-crime%ef%bf%bc/
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