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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/
LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, Van der Boechorststraat 7\, Amsterdam\, 1081 BT\, Netherlands
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