Sarah Lamble

Research interests

Sarah’s current research project examines how grassroots activists generate new forms of knowledge as a response to the limits of legal reform. This project considers how non-normative gender/sexuality politics intersect, inform and influence other social justice issues (such as imprisonment, border controls and globalisation struggles) and how grassroots organisers take up legal issues via non-litigation based strategies. At stake in the research is a broad concern about the relationships between law, activism and social change and the impact of knowledge-production processes in shaping the conditions of political possibility.

Other research interests include:  law and political theory; governance and social regulation; policing, punishment and criminalisation; state violence and institutional racism; welfare, poverty and homelessness; alternative justice and community responses to social harm; critical disability studies; feminist, critical race, and queer theory.