Joseph van Buuren

Joseph van Buuren is a lecturer in Criminology and Justice Studies in RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His research interests are in the role of English-only language ideologies in the criminalisation of language minoritised peoples by the State, the power of comics and graphic journalism as criminological texts in calling attention to State criminality and harm, and the role of comics and zines as a tool for promoting community legal education and legal literacy. More recently, he is researching the increasing militarisation of Higher Education in Australia, and the ways this militarisation intersects with carceral power in curbing rights to protest and speech.