Rosie Smith
PhD student

Profile

Biography:

• BA Hons- Sociology with Criminology, University of York‌
• PhD in Sociology (ongoing), University of York

After completing my undergraduate degree in Sociology with Criminology, I moved to Beijing, China, where I taught English as foreign language for a year. Upon returning to the UK, I started my PhD in the areas of Sociology and Criminology. I also have an interest in classical and contemporary social theory and its applications to crime, culture, and media.

The title of my research is: ‘Spectacular Justice: The case against Foucault’s panoptic privatisation theory of justice’.
Using international and historical case studies I will challenge the idea that post-eighteenth century, criminal justice and punishment have become privatised and institutionalised under the pressure of panopticism. I will aim to illustrate the renaissance of spectacular justice through traditional and social media, and how this illuminates people’s relationships with the manifestations of state power which continue to resonate in the present day. 

Publications

Book reviews

• Smith, R. (2015). Book Review: Foucault’s ‘Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling’ by Michel Foucault. The Sociological Imagination [Online]. Available at: http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/18245
  
  
• Smith, R. (2016) 'SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society'. Information, Communication & Society [Online] Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1142596 
  
  
• Smith, R. (2016) 'Cyber-proletariat: global labour in the digital vortex' by Nick Dyer-Witheford reviewed in Information, Communication & Society [Online] Available at:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1211724 
  
  

Other Publications

•  Smith, R. (Feb 2017) 'This is 'proper' research: Taking on the Social Science vs. Science Debate', Women Are Boring. Available at: https://womenareboring.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/this-is-proper-research-taking-on-the-social-science-vs-science-debate/
  
  
• Smith, R. (2016) 'Debate on Debate: Foucault v. Chomsky (1971) and the EU Referendum (2016)'. The Sociological Imagination [Online]. Available at: http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/18925   

Teaching

Teaching

• I teach on the first year undergraduate module: The Sociology of Crime and Deviance'.

• I have previously taught on another core first year module: Introduction to Sociological Theory