Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Rap music has historically been criminalised and censored, including today in the context of UK Drill and the accusation that it is responsible for an epidemic of knife violence. My research challenges misunderstandings of rap and rappers, instead arguing it has a role not only in understanding violence, but providing possible solutions. I am primarily focused on psychosocial alternatives to the criminal justice system.
My approach to research and my work more widely, is informed by decoloniality. I am interested in the relationship between academia and activism, and how participatory research, particularly related to audio and music, can disrupt academic hierarchies.
Approach to teaching
Seminar lead for the following modules:
- Punishment, Power and the State (Spring 2022, Brighton)
- Theories of Crime (Spring 2022, Brighton)
- Police and Policing (Autumn 2022, Sussex)
- Thinking Like a Criminologist (Autumn 2022, Sussex)
Education/Academic qualification
Master, Birkbeck University of London
2016 → 2018
Award Date: 1 Nov 2018
Keywords
- M Music
- rap
- participatory research
- HT Communities. Classes. Races
- decoloniality
- Criminology
- abolition
- BF Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
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I Spit Therefore I Am: Rap as Knowledge
Canton, W., 9 Dec 2022, In: Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics. 3, 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Three Ain't a Crowd: podcast Series 2
Canton, W., 2022Research output: Non-textual output › Digital or Visual Products
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Three Ain't a Crowd: podcast Series 1
Canton, W., 2020Research output: Non-textual output › Digital or Visual Products
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Women Flip The Script: Podcast with Women in Prison
Canton, W., Jun 2020Research output: Non-textual output › Digital or Visual Products
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Spoken poetry at the border of trauma
Canton, W., 1 Oct 2019, In: Journal of Psychosocial Studies . 12, 3, p. 277-286 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Musicalizing Language: Flow & Voice in Rap Music (Université Paris Cité, Paris)
Wanda Canton (Participant)
19 Nov 2022Activity: Events › Conference
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Radical Listening as Abolitionist Praxis (University of Bergen, Norway)
Wanda Canton (Presenter)
19 Oct 2022Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Rap & Social Dialogue Workshop (The Listening Academy)
Wanda Canton (Organiser)
1 Sep 2022Activity: Events › Workshop
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Defending Drill and Radical Listening (British Columbia, Canada)
Wanda Canton (Presenter)
20 Jul 2022Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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