Book Review: Anarchy and Art: from the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Review of Anarchy and Art: from the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, by Allan Antlif

‘You’re Investing in People … It’s Not a Race. It’s Not a Rush’: Youth Care Worker Emotional Labour in Inner-City Neighbourhoods Across Canada

Emotional labour (EL) is the practice of managing expressions in a given work setting. Using the concept of EL, we aim to understand how youth care workers supporting marginalized youth manage work-related stress and the emotions experienced by young people. The youth supported by these workers experience the effects of secondary prisonization (i.e., indirect exposure to punishment), requiring them to engage in extensive EL. Drawing from qualitative interviews and participant-generated visual data, we show that EL is a crucial part of support work that is not yet well recognized. With the participant-generated visual data, we reveal how emotions are processed and managed. EL enables workers to continue to advocate for the needs and well-being of young people even at times of distress and austerity, at the expense of being exposed to secondary prisonization. Explaining how secondary prisonization extends beyond immediate family members and affects youth care workers at a tertiary level, we argue that one way of investing in the community (rather than expanding the criminal justice system) is by taking the importance of EL in support work seriously and providing better resources for these workers, who present real opportunities and safety for inner-city youths

Metal at urban margins: Regulating scrap metal collecting in Winnipeg, Canada

Scrap metal theft and collection has captured the attention of criminology and criminal justice scholars. Mainstream criminological research on scrap metal theft is focused on opportunity theory, arguing that theft can be reduced through stringent regulation of buying and selling by salvage yards. Alternatively, cultural criminology has examined the issue in ethnographic research exploring dumpster diving and scrounging. Additional conceptual tools are needed to analyze regulation of urban metal collecting, which leads us outside of criminology. The present study draws from urban studies and socio-legal studies to conduct a case study of the policing and regulation of scrap metal theft in Winnipeg, Canada. Using multiple methods including interviews, observations, analysis of news media and municipal regulations, we examine how scrap metal collection and processing is regulated in the city. We found four layers of regulation and law: federal, provincial, municipal laws, and what we refer to as the law of the lane. Our analysis contributes to literature on urban scrap and metal collecting and well as socio-legal literature on urban forms of regulation.Le vol et la collecte de ferraille ont attiré l’attention des spécialistes de la criminologie et de la justice pénale. La recherche criminologique courante sur le vol de ferraille se concentre sur la théorie des opportunités, faisant valoir que le vol peut être réduit par une réglementation stricte de l’achat et de la vente par les chantiers de récupération. Alternativement, la criminologie culturelle a examiné la question sous le regard de la recherche ethnographique explorant les plongeurs des bennes à ordures et les maraudeurs d’ordures. Des outils conceptuels supplémentaires sont nécessaires pour analyser la réglementation de la collecte des métaux en milieu urbain, ce qui nous conduit en dehors du domaine de la criminologie. La présente étude s’inspire d’études urbaines et socio-juridiques afin de mener une étude de cas sur la police et la réglementation du vol de ferraille à Winnipeg, au Canada. À l’aide de plusieurs méthodes, notamment des entrevues, des observations, l’analyse des médias et les règlements municipaux, nous examinons comment la collecte et le traitement de la ferraille sont réglementés à Winnipeg. Nous avons trouvé quatre niveaux de réglementation et de droit: les lois fédérales, provinciales et municipales, et ce que nous appelons « la loi de la voie ». Notre analyse contribue à la littérature sur la collecte urbaine de ferraille et de métaux ainsi qu’à la littérature socio-juridique sur les formes de régulation urbaine