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Emma Patchett

@eepwrites.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Law at Northumbria- diaspora legal theory / law and literature/ critical border studies / law and film/ place, migration & human rights

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Enjoyed presenting at the @rgs.org conference on loitering and PSPOs in the panel 'Geographies of Justice: mapping legal, carceral and civil societal notions of an elusive concept'. Thank you to Anna Schliehe @unibonn.bsky.social for organising!
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Vagabonds rove. We travel about and pick up work wherever we go. We wander, drift, stagger, wink. Reluctant to be pinned down, we're enticed by risk, restless if we linger, fueled by curiosity and a sense of wonder” youtube.com/watch?v=SSZY...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'the engagement with time is different, involving repertoires of horizontal relations, affinities of place... neglected ecologies of urban inhabitation emerge as the ground of future-making' @xazaaradjame.bsky.social et al on urban resistance www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In ‘Border Afterlives’ Gabriella Soto examines postmortem journeys, revealing how border policies generate deaths. Soto argues these deaths should be understood as structural homicides & that the forensic neglect they face is a form of ongoing violence uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Delighted to have my chapter 'Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders' published in Cultural Practices of Place, edited by Sarah Earnshaw #lawandliterature #place #PSPOs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
'A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House' - engaging with the 'subversive' act of homemaking in the asylum process through law-as-film, based on a critical reading of Remi Weekes' 2020 film His House - JPPEL www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My article on asylum accommodation and the construction of the home in law & film just published in JPPEL - A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in his house (2020) url: www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@drdconlon.bsky.social & @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social discuss their new book 'Immigration Detention Inc' @plutopress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0nkE...
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Looking forward to reading this insightful & important investigation into Britain’s woefully broken asylum system by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thrilled to be a discussant today for the @lsjleeds.bsky.social book launch of ‘Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law’ by @jenhendry.bsky.social and @glexareen.bsky.social with @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @paolosandro.bsky.social @iliastrispiotis.bsky.social
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