The YES-seminar series in Yiddish, European and Eastern European Studies and Slavistics

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Doing Ethnography in Criminalized Settings

How is ethnography conducted among individuals whose lives and practices are criminalized? Drawing on three years of research conducted among opioid users in Poland, I will discuss how systemic violence against this group affects their understandings of agency and political subjectivity. I will also demonstrate how criminalization shapes social research and necessitates continual navigation of this complex context.

Justyna Struzik is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. Currently, as part of the Crimscapes - Navigating Citizenship through European Landscapes of Criminalization project, she is looking at the criminalization of psychoactive substance use through the prism of lived experiences of people who use opioids and harm reduction activists. She has extensive experience in conducting qualitative research projects with a special focus on queer mobilisation, HIV/AIDS politics and social justice.

Period	2024 Feb 29
Event type	Workshop
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International