Department of Sociology & Criminology - Open Research Seminar
Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Wednesday 2nd December 2009
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY 1.30pm in Room 3D07
Christina Pantazis
(School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol)
Nation States and Social Harm: Resisting the Hegemony of 'TINA'
Christina is one of the founders of the Social Harm school who seek to move our focus away from state defined concepts of 'crime' onto what Steven Box had described as those behaviours which objectively and avoidably cause us the most harm, injury, and suffering’.
Her paper will provide an introduction to social harm theory and challenge the assertion made by Margaret Thatcher that 'there is no alternative' to global capitalism. By adopting a social harm perspective it compares the nature and levels of social harm across different state formations. The UK and US are compared with corporatist and social democratic nations; by doing this we are able to identify more humane forms of capitalist formations operating within the constraints of contemporary globalisation.
All Welcome
Christina Pantazis
(School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol)
Nation States and Social Harm: Resisting the Hegemony of 'TINA'
Christina is one of the founders of the Social Harm school who seek to move our focus away from state defined concepts of 'crime' onto what Steven Box had described as those behaviours which objectively and avoidably cause us the most harm, injury, and suffering’.
Her paper will provide an introduction to social harm theory and challenge the assertion made by Margaret Thatcher that 'there is no alternative' to global capitalism. By adopting a social harm perspective it compares the nature and levels of social harm across different state formations. The UK and US are compared with corporatist and social democratic nations; by doing this we are able to identify more humane forms of capitalist formations operating within the constraints of contemporary globalisation.
All Welcome
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