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