Phil Crockett Thomas

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  • Abolition Science Fiction – book available now!

    Abolition Science Fiction – book available now!

    I am delighted to say that the book resulting from my research project Prison Break is now available. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the book, it was a dream to work with you all. Abolition Science Fiction is a new, free collection of sci fi short stories written by activists and scholars involved in…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    October 27, 2022
    abolition, academia, art, fiction, methodology, police, politics, prison, race, reading, riots, science fiction, sexual harassment, society, sociology
  • The Moon Spins the Dead Prison

    The Moon Spins the Dead Prison

    Really proud to have edited this collection of essays with Thomas Abercromby and Rosie Roberts for the School of Abolition. The Moon Spins the Dead Prison brings together a collection of new essays that explore the meaning, practices, and politics of prison abolition from local, national and global positions and perspectives. The publication includes new…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    June 23, 2022
    abolition, academia, art, police, politics, prison
  • The Town Marshal on BBC Radio4

    The Town Marshal on BBC Radio4

    My short story The Town Marshal was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of The Poet and the Echo: a short story series in which writers choose poems as inspiration for new stories. You can listen back to it HERE. The story was inspired by a poem from Edgar Lee Masters’s intoxicating Spoon River…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    February 16, 2022
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  • ISRF Fellowship 2021-2022: Prison Break

    ISRF Fellowship 2021-2022: Prison Break

    ‘the creation of Utopias – and their exhaustive criticism – is the proper and distinctive method of sociology.’ H.G Wells in Utopia as Method (2013) Ruth Levitas. ‘[A]ll [activist] organizing is science fiction. When we talk about a world without prisons; a world without police violence; a world where everyone has food, clothing, shelter, quality…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    December 31, 2021
    academia, art, fiction, making, methodology, prison, science fiction, sociological fiction, sociology
    criminal justice, fiction, prisons, science fiction, sociological fiction, sociology
  • Erratics – commission for Hanne Lillee’s ‘Foreign Fauna’

    Erratics – commission for Hanne Lillee’s ‘Foreign Fauna’

    Image credit: Hanne Lillee. Header image: Hanne Lillee (2019) Ovules I was delighted to contribute a piece of writing on pregnancy, food, decay and the Fortingall Yew, for Hanne Lillee’s beautiful new book Foreign Fauna. Hanne writes: “The photographs explore growth and propagation, as well as decomposition and rot, and the repetitive force that transforms…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    May 14, 2021
    art, fiction, making, photographs, poetry, pregnancy
  • Just Humans podcast – Translation

    Just Humans podcast – Translation

    I was honoured to be the guest on episode 2 of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research’s new podcast Just Humans. We talked about my sociological research using fiction and poetry and Stir my new poetry pamphlet for the Distant Voices project. When we think about translation we usually think of translating from…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    November 26, 2020
    academia, Distant Voices, fiction, methodology, podcast, poetry, prison, science fiction, sociological fiction, sociology, Vox Liminis
  • Becoming different together by Les Back — Streetsigns

    Vox Liminis is a project in Glasgow that challenges criminal justice and fosters communities through song writing and music  How do you imagine a new kind of life if you have served time in prison? How can music help people trying to walk that line out of prison to a free life?  In this podcast we visit an extraordinary project called Vox Liminis based in the Gallowgate, in […]…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    October 22, 2020
    music, podcast, prison, Vox Liminis
  • Stir, field works from the Distant Voices project

    Stir, field works from the Distant Voices project

    Stir (2020) is a collection of poems which were written while I was the research associate on the Distant Voices project (2017-2021).[1] I’m a visual sociologist (sociologist with an art practice as part of their approach) and these poems reflect on my experience of doing ethnographic research in carceral spaces, written from the perspective of an…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    April 8, 2020
    academia, Distant Voices, methodology, poetry, prison, sociological fiction, sociology, Vox Liminis
    Distant Voices, poetry, prisons, research, sociological poetry, sociology
  • How to do things with songs

    How to do things with songs

    In this blogpost, I share a few insights from my analysis of the songs so far produced in song writing sessions as part of the Distant Voices project. I’ve been exploring how we can use these songs – which were largely written in collaboration with serving prisoners, as ways to explore the issue of ‘coming…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    June 18, 2019
    academia, art, Distant Voices, making, methodology, music, Vox Liminis
    analysis, collaborative songwriting, criminal justice, Distant Voices, music, prisons
  • Castaway (podcast) for the Distant Voices project

    Castaway (podcast) for the Distant Voices project

    In this PODCAST I interviewed S Code: the co-writer of the song Weather You about his favourite tracks in his music collection. The idea for this podcast came out of an earlier conversation with S Code about the restrictions put on the number of albums and DVDs you’re allowed in prison. With no ability to stream music…

    Phil Crockett Thomas

    October 11, 2018
    academia, art, Distant Voices, music, podcast, politics, prison, society, technology, Vox Liminis
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