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East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology
[‘The Earth is One But the World is Not’: Criminological Theory and its Geopolitical Divisions’]

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  • Laura Piacentini
  • Gavin Slade

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This paper identifies an absence in currently constituted criminological discourse on the Global North and Global South. This absence is the Global East. The Global East is not a defined region but a relation of betweenness, geographically and geo-politically, within and between the South and North, representing peoples from countries and societies which fit imperfectly into a North/South binary. We focus on the Eastern European and Eurasian regions to demonstrate this point, concentrating specifically on its omission in punishment and society studies. Our paper makes a positive argument for the Global East concept, disrupting the assumed categories of North and South and producing a strategic essentialism to help better represent peoples thus far overlooked in southern criminology.

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  • Laura Piacentini & Gavin Slade, 2024. "East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology [‘The Earth is One But the World is Not’: Criminological Theory and its Geopolitical Divisions’]," The British Journal of Criminology, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, vol. 64(3), pages 521-537.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:crimin:v:64:y:2024:i:3:p:521-537.
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