Rachael Dobson
Lecturer
Department of Criminology
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Rachael's research explores the governance of vulnerability at the level of the ‘local-state’ as a way to theorise state formations. This poststructural, psychosocial, critical feminist and critical race informed approach contributes to debates about the policing of vulnerability and transgression, critical and cultural approaches to governance, and the role of practitioners in the ‘making-of’ policy, legislation and institutions.
Research Interest
Criminalisation of welfare, Interventions with vulnerable people, Homelessness, Critical practice research & pedagogy, Institutions and social change, Cultural approaches to governance
Publications
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Walsh, E, Butt, C, Freshwater, D, Dobson, R, Wright, N, Cahill, J, Briggs, M and Alldred, D (2014) Managing pain in prison: staff perspectives. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 10 (3), pp. 198-208
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Dobson, R. (2016) Supporting People, Regulation, Welfare Practice and Emotions, in Jupp, E., Pykett, J. and Smith, F., Emotional States: Governing with Feeling in Policy-Making, Practice and Participation (eds.) Routledge
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Dobson, R. (2017) Recollection-As-Method in Social Welfare Practice: experience, theory & practice, Qualitative Research Journal, 17 (3) 164-176, part of special issue Bordering, Exclusions and Necropolitics
