Title of Project : Understanding war as punitive action in the international sphere: expanding criminological imagination
Project Description :
This is a thesis about how discourses have changed- how explanations and justifications of war and crime have merged so that the pursuit of war is represented in terms of punishment. Especially since 9/11 the metaphor of punishment has increasingly being used as part of official discourses on war. The war in Afghanistan has been sustained by the American administration as a form of punishment for the events of 9/11 and the war in Iraq was, as well, legitimised as a punitive action against Iraq’s alleged possession of chemical and biological weapons and its links to al-Qaeda affiliates. The rhetoric of crime and justice gives implicitly the idea that war can be used as a form of punishment in the international sphere.
Garland explains that the war metaphor has been used in the criminal justice system to re-affirm sovereignty at the time of its crisis, Simon, on a similar line of thought, suggests that there has been a move from governing through crime to governing through terrorism (Garland, 1996; Simon, 1997). Other criminologists focus on understanding war as a state crime (Jamieson, 1998-2003; Green and Ward 2004; Ruggiero 2005). This research attempts a different analysis of war, following the wide literature in international relation and in particular the one from just war theory, it explores the consequences of using military force to punish and establish order in the international sphere through the literature provided by sociology of punishment. The emphasis is on authors such as Agamben, Foucault, Wacquant, Simon, Garland, Hardt and Negri who provide the theoretical base from which the convergence between criminology and international relation can be understood.
Other Information :
Academic background:
Law Degree (Hons) Bologna University ( Italy)
Erasmus student at Rotterdam University and Utrecht Women Studies
Visiting student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice ( New York)
Ma Criminology and Research Method Keele University
Publications:
In Italian:
Peer Review Article: “Guerra e pena: funzioni di legittimazione o nuove legittimita’?” (“War and Punishment: new legitimacy or legitimating functions?” published in Dei Delitti e delle Pene, vol 1-2-3, 2003, pp. 79-103.
In English:
Book Review “How America gets Away with Murder”, Michael Mandel, 2005 in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, May 2005
Book Review “State Crime. Government, violence and corruption”, Penny Green and Tony Ward, London, Pluto Press, 2004. in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. III, no. 3-4, March/June 2004 http://www.ethnopolitics.org/ June 2004
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Name : Teresa Degenhardt
E-mail Address : t.degenhardt@ulster.ac.uk
Tel No : 0044 28 90368243
Mode of Study : full time
Expected Completion Date : July 2007
Supervisor(s) : Prof Bill Rolston ( School of Social Sciences) Dermot Feenean ( School of Law)
Title of Project : Understanding war as punitive action in the international sphere: expanding criminological imagination
Project Description :
This is a thesis about how discourses have changed- how explanations and justifications of war and crime have merged so that the pursuit of war is represented in terms of punishment. Especially since 9/11 the metaphor of punishment has increasingly being used as part of official discourses on war. The war in Afghanistan has been sustained by the American administration as a form of punishment for the events of 9/11 and the war in Iraq was, as well, legitimised as a punitive action against Iraq’s alleged possession of chemical and biological weapons and its links to al-Qaeda affiliates. The rhetoric of crime and justice gives implicitly the idea that war can be used as a form of punishment in the international sphere.
Garland explains that the war metaphor has been used in the criminal justice system to re-affirm sovereignty at the time of its crisis, Simon, on a similar line of thought, suggests that there has been a move from governing through crime to governing through terrorism (Garland, 1996; Simon, 1997). Other criminologists focus on understanding war as a state crime (Jamieson, 1998-2003; Green and Ward 2004; Ruggiero 2005). This research attempts a different analysis of war, following the wide literature in international relation and in particular the one from just war theory, it explores the consequences of using military force to punish and establish order in the international sphere through the literature provided by sociology of punishment. The emphasis is on authors such as Agamben, Foucault, Wacquant, Simon, Garland, Hardt and Negri who provide the theoretical base from which the convergence between criminology and international relation can be understood.
Other Information :
Academic background:
Publications:
In Italian:
Peer Review Article: “Guerra e pena: funzioni di legittimazione o nuove legittimita’?” (“War and Punishment: new legitimacy or legitimating functions?” published in Dei Delitti e delle Pene, vol 1-2-3, 2003, pp. 79-103.
In English:
Book Review “How America gets Away with Murder”, Michael Mandel, 2005 in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, May 2005
Book Review “State Crime. Government, violence and corruption”, Penny Green and Tony Ward, London, Pluto Press, 2004. in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. III, no. 3-4, March/June 2004 http://www.ethnopolitics.org/ June 2004
If you would like to learn more about how we can help further your studies and career opportunities, please contact us.