Against Hibernian Exceptionalism

Citation

Brangan L (2022) Against Hibernian Exceptionalism. In: Black L, Brangan L & Healy D (eds.) Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from a periphery. Perspectives on Crime, Law and Justice in the Global South. London: Emerald. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/histories-of-punishment-and-social-control-in-ireland/?k=9781800436077

Abstract
First paragraph: During the early stages of my PhD at the University of Edinburgh, in a moment of flippant chit chat, I suggested to a fellow student that I was toying with the idea of writing my entire dissertation on comparative sociology of punishment without reference to David Garland. This obviously sounds like the ludicrous or crude act of a provocateur. My friend was reasonably alarmed – not least because writing a thesis situated within the sociology of punishment that didn’t acknowledge, let alone mention, David Garland defied the basic logic of a literature review. Embarrassed, I desperately tried to clarify, though not successfully, that I was speaking in jest, but that there was a serious note underlying this statement. I had been wondering how one would write and think about punishment and penal politics in my two comparator states of Ireland and Scotland if David Garland’s theses on penal-welfarism and the culture of control had not become so landmark. How differently would we perceive penality in those places?

Notes
Output Status: Forthcoming

• Accepted manuscript