Lucy Campbell-University of Edinburgh

Doing Time- An Autoethnographic Exploration of the Hauntology of Prison and the Affected Afterlife.
Abstract
My doctoral research is post-humanist and sits in the field of constitutive criminology. It is an autoethnographic exploration of the hauntology of prisons and looks through a feminist, diffractive, agential realist (Barad, 2007) perspective. It concentrates on the hauntological premise that prison becomes us, due to our entanglements with the very fabric of its buildings.
I read through the diffracted lenses of hauntology and affect and argue that as we intra-act with the essence of prison, the materiality of the place seeps into us, leading to a Deleuzian becoming. I write about the affective prison experience and the contagious and non-linear nature of trauma. I explore my personal experiences of affective energy in prison and the impact of residing in spaces surrounded by other traumatised women and disturbing emotional residues. I am exploring how the spectre of prison haunts long after release and what this means for women who have experienced incarceration.
The methodology is autoethnographic, as it allows a revisiting of experience through both recollection and diarised entries from my time spent in prison.

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a highly influential and controversial figure during his lifetime. He rose to fame as a philanthropic businessman who implemented a series of revolutionary social reforms at the factory village of New Lanark, near Glasgow. In later life, he would pioneer various radical movements, schemes, and experiments in an attempt to bring about his vision of a “new moral world”. Owen is remembered today as the father of British socialism and the founder of the co-operative movement, but this paper argues that he should also be recognised as a key figure in development of criminological thought and debate.

By using archival research methods, this paper explores the Owenite perspective on the causes the solutions to crime. It examines the claim that Owen was able to eradicate crime entirely from the village of New Lanark and demonstrates that explaining and remedying the causes of crime was a feature of his work for nearly half-a-century. In doing so, this study presents an account of a stream of criminological thought that challenges the orthodox historical narrative about the development of criminology.

This paper suggests that a revisionist history of criminology which included the contribution of Owen and his followers would give a more accurate representation of the broad spectrum of ideas that existed before the formal development of criminology as an independent field of study. Furthermore, this study suggests that there could be value and utility in reviving the central principles of Owenite theory to deal with some of the fundamental issues facing the field of criminology today.

Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology has fundamentally influenced narrative criminology. The concepts of capital, field and habitus helped to anchor thinking about narrative more firmly in a structural approach: the emphasis was on understanding how our social position translates into the availability of the stories we tell, or the differential availability of the discursive resources from which we construct our narratives. However, little attention has yet been paid to the strategic nature of narrative and the varying ability of storytellers to achieve the goals they pursue with their storytelling. Our paper aims to introduce the concept of narrative capital into narrative criminology as a useful analytical device in three areas. Drawing on our empirical research, we argue that narrative capital is a useful way of understanding how storytelling itself can cause harm, how the ability to tell and respond to stories is an essential part of socialization into the prison field, and finally how a lack of narrative capital limits strategic storytelling in the research interview.