Raine Pataki
- Thesis Title: Demand the Impossible: Criminology, Utopia & Abolition
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About
Raine (they/them) has a BA in Sociology (Human, Social, and Political Sciences) from the University of Cambridge, and they graduated from the MPhil in Criminological Research in 2018 with a Distinction. They are passionate about social justice and working against capitalist realism. In their free time they convene a Queer Utopian Reading Group, which brings together counter-hegemonic science fiction, social theory, and queer theory.
Research
They began their PhD in October 2023, and their research will focus on criminology’s role in producing knowledge that legitimizes the carceral state, abolition, and utopian social theory. Their approach is primarily post-Marxist and post-structuralist.
They are loosely affiliated with both the Prison Research Centre and the Justice and Society Research Centre.