Joanne talks human trafficking films

07/07/24 • 28 min

In our first episode, Emily Sisson speaks to Joanne Butcher about her research on cinematic portrayals of human trafficking and modern slavery. Joanne discusses how the topic has been utilised by filmmakers as an allegorical tool to spread ideological narratives.

In this conversation, Joanne touches on the following subjects:

The complex terminology that surrounds human trafficking and exploitation.
What interested her about this niche area of research and what she hopes to bring to the conversation with her analysis.
Where she situates her work academically and her hopes for the research's social impact.
Her rationale for focussing on popular cinema and why she believes it is important to give this form of mediated discourse serious academic consideration.

Find the show notes at https://medium.com/@cultcaptpod

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In this conversation, Joanne touches on the following subjects:

The complex terminology that surrounds human trafficking and exploitation.
What interested her about this niche area of research and what she hopes to bring to the conversation with her analysis.
Where she situates her work academically and her hopes for the research's social impact.
Her rationale for focussing on popular cinema and why she believes it is important to give this form of mediated discourse serious academic consideration.

Find the show notes at https://medium.com/@cultcaptpod

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Emily talks the overpoliticisation of prisons

In this episode, Mary Rehman talks to Emily Sisson about her research into the overpoliticisation of prison policy since 2010. Listen as Emily discusses the problems with this and outlines why a prison commission might be solution to depoliticising prisons.

She answers questions around the following topics:

How Emily became interested in this topic for her research and the key research gap in her area.
Her methodological process and some problems she has been encountering in terms of access to prisons.
Some of her preliminary findings
Her thoughts on how her work might impact wider conversations around the penal experience and the importance of depoliticising prisons.

Find the show notes at https://medium.com/@cultcaptpod

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