Written by Professor Christina Pantazis
The University of Bristol has been home to critical and activist scholarship on social harms and crime from the mid-1970s. Our research has often focused on the invisible or hidden harms and injustices that traditional disciplines – including criminology – have ignored. Some of us use the term zemiology – borrowed from the Greek term ‘zemia’ (harm) – to deliberately mark out this new disciplinary territory. (more…)
Written by Nasrul Ismail
We held our second Zemiology Conference at Wills Memorial Building, Bristol on 11th December 2023. Dr Jo Large, who pioneered this event since 2022, convened the conference. It offered an excellent programme with a range of panels featuring 19 speakers related to the themes of: immigration and detention; researching powerful people and corporations; drugs, women and violence; and using creative methods to research crime and harm. Additionally, seven of our BSc Criminology students presented their posters based on their current dissertation topics. (more…)
