Challenging Complicity

Markers of entanglement: Survival strategies within the neoliberal university and the promise of carceral futures

“…In this paper, I take up the Canadian 3 context to provide a framework of analysis to interrogate how these survival strategies reveal the synergies that exist between criminology departments and carceral systems. In doing so, I extend previous conceptualizations of how the university and carceral systems are linked (see Johnson and Dizon, 2021;Oparah, 2014) and bridge sustained critiques of the discipline of criminology for its role in carceral expansion (see Cohen, 1998;Jackson, 2020;Schept et al, 2014) to develop a specific framework of analysis that situates the discipline of criminology within the current neoliberal-carceral university. Previous work has made clear that the university offers credentials and therefore legitimacy to employees of the carceral state (Oparah, 2014) and that criminology, in particular, is at the ready to staff its institutions (Schept et al, 2014).…”

“…In doing so, I extend previous conceptualizations of how the university and carceral systems are linked (see Johnson and Dizon, 2021;Oparah, 2014) and bridge sustained critiques of the discipline of criminology for its role in carceral expansion (see Cohen, 1998;Jackson, 2020;Schept et al, 2014) to develop a specific framework of analysis that situates the discipline of criminology within the current neoliberal-carceral university. Previous work has made clear that the university offers credentials and therefore legitimacy to employees of the carceral state (Oparah, 2014) and that criminology, in particular, is at the ready to staff its institutions (Schept et al, 2014). However, absent from these interrogations is a systematic analysis of criminology departments wholesale and the tactics used within these reproductions.…”

“…These frames remind that the academy has never "stood apart from" enslavement, dispossession, or genocide (Grande, 2018: 28). 4 To further specify these conceptualizations scholars have articulated what is variously termed the "police-education nexus" (Seigel, 2018: 123), "college-prison nexus" (Johnson and Dizon, 2021), or "academic-prison symbiosis" (Oparah, 2014). This framing demonstrates that these spaces are "linked and mutually reinforcing" (Oparah, 2014: 99, 109).…”

Nutritional Composition, Bioavailability, Medicinal Functions and Uses of Turmeric: A Review

“…Its application has extended to pharmaceutical, confectionery/sweetened products, rice milling, and food sectors as a colouring agent (Ammon & Wahl, 1991;Nwadiokwu, Ezeanyanaso, & Akinboade, 2019). Oparah, Adamu and Giwa (2014) carried out a study focused on the dyeing of leather with aqueous extracts of curcumin (turmeric), using post-mordanting method of dyeing and concluded that the most significant outcome of the work, was obtaining the dry powdered extract of the curcumin dye as well as the good shades from different mordants. They stated that the dyes had moderate to good rub and light fastness properties on the leathers.…”

“…It is known as ata ile pupa (Yoruba) and gangamau (Hausa) in Nigerian language (Nwaekpe, Anyaegbunam, Okoye & Asumugha, 2015;Oja, 2021). Most times it requires temperatures between 20 -30 °C, and a good amount of annual rainfall to survive (Oparah, Adamu & Giwa, 2014).…”