James Whitfield

PhD Candidate

Email: J.Whitfield.1@warwick.ac.uk

Profile

I am a fourth year ESRC funded PhD student in the department of sociology at the University of Warwick. My work looks at the history of state killings within Britain looking at the different class and racial justice movements which resisted this. It is an archival study beginning from the early 1970s and continuing to our contemporary moment. I am particularly focused upon the way the carceral state has changed because of resistance, as well as stayed the same. My work explores material investment into the carceral state and the different institutions which are brought into the apparatus of policing. I am also looking at the effects of prison reform upon organisations pursuing it, difficulties of direct action and more. Currently, I am a visiting researcher at Vilnius University where I am teaching and running a reading group on post-colonial theory.

My supervisors are Dr Nisha Kapoor and Professor Virinder Kalra

Areas of Interest

• Capitalism and Incarceration

• Post-colonial theory

• Race and class in Eastern Europe