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Dr Nathan Stephens-Griffin

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Nathan started as a Lecturer at Northumbria University in September 2018. His research interests include animal advocacy, environmentalism, and other forms of political activism, with a particular interest in the criminalisation of political protest. He is also interested in biographical, visual and graphic narrative approaches to social research.

 Before joining Northumbria, Nathan worked as a Teaching Fellow in Criminology in the Department of Sociology at Durham University, and as a Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Teesside University. Nathan completed his PhD at Durham University in 2015. In 2017 he published a monograph based on his PhD research, entitled ‘Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity’. 

 

 

Nathan Stephens-Griffin

Critical Animal Studies

Green Criminology

Environmentalism, Animal Advocacy and Social Ecology

Criminalisation and Policing of Protest

Biographical and Visual Research Methods

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Biting Back: A Green-Cultural Criminology of Animal Liberation Struggle as Constructed Through Online Communiqués, Stephens-Griffin, N. 8 Jul 2022, In: Crime, Media, Culture
  • Embracing ‘Abolition Ecology’: A Green Criminological Rejoinder, Stephens-Griffin, N. 2 Nov 2022, In: Critical Criminology
  • ‘Go Home, Get a Job, and Pay Some Taxes to Replace a Bit of What You’ve Wasted’: Stigma Power and Solidarity in Response to Anti-Open-Cast Mining Activism in the Coalfields of Rural County Durham, UK, Brock, A., Stephenson, C., Stephens-Griffin, N., Wyatt, T. 28 Jan 2022, In: Sociological Research Online
  • “It’s Just Totally Lawless Out Here”: A rural green criminological exploration of foxhunting, policing, and ‘regulatory capture’, Graham, L., Wyatt, T., Stephens-Griffin, N. 8 Jul 2022, In: Criminological Encounters
  • 'Nothing Has Changed...': A report from a survey of political activists targeted by undercover police in the UK., Stephens-Griffin, N. 13 Jun 2022
  • ‘Everyone was questioning everything’: understanding the derailing impact of undercover policing on the lives of UK environmentalists., Stephens-Griffin, N. 4 Jul 2021, In: Social Movement Studies
  • "It Often Feels Like You Are Talking To A Wall”: Police and Private Security Responses To The Protect Pont Valley Campaign Against Opencast Coal Extraction, Stephens-Griffin, N., Lampkin, J., Wyatt, T., Stephenson, C. 1 Jun 2021, In: Critical Criminology
  • Mediating a Global Capitalist, Speciesist Moral Vacuum: How Two Escaped Pigs disrupted Dyson Appliances’ State of Nature, David, M., Stephens-Griffin, N. 1 Feb 2021, In: Journal for Critical Animal Studies
  • Policing Environmental Injustice, Brock, A., Stephens-Griffin, N. 28 Oct 2021, In: IDS Bulletin
  • Speciesism and the Wildlife Trade:: Who gets Listed, Downlisted and Uplisted in CITES?, Hutchinson, A., Stephens-Griffin, N., Wyatt, T. 6 Oct 2021, In: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Lynne Graham No Justice, Just Us: A qualitative, mixed methods, ethnographic study of organised fox-hunting and anti-hunt activism in England and Wales Start Date: 01/10/2019


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