A Green Lens: Resistance, Countervisuality, and Green-Cultural Criminology
Jordan is a DCGC joint-Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Kent and University of Hamburg. He holds a M.Sc. in Criminal Justice from Eastern Kentucky University, and a B.Sc. in Sociology from Texas Christian University. He spent two years as a grassroots community organizer and movement photodocumentarian in Kentucky working on several criminal justice, environmental, labor, and racial justice campaigns. This experience heavily informs his doctoral research interests as an activist scholar. Specifically, Jordan is exploring the concept and process of Visual Activism and the complexities of how the visual plays out in the context of specific environmental campaigns in the UK and Germany, along with the possibilities and limitations the visual holds for resistance to environmental harm and destruction.
Jordan also serves on the Steering Committee for the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons.
Publications
Mazurek, Jordan. (2017; forthcoming). “Nemo’s Plight: Aquariums and Animal Abuse.” in The International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies. Eds. Piers Beirne, Jenny Maher, and Harriet Pierpoint. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mazurek, Jordan and Kishonna Gray. (2017; forthcoming). “Visualizing Blackness – Racializing Gaming: Social Inequalities in Virtual Gaming Communities.” in The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Eds. Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine. London: Routledge.
Schept, Judah and Jordan Mazurek (2017; forthcoming). “Layers of Industry, Landscapes of Violence: Coal Seams, Prison Walls and Craft Bourbon.” in The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism. Eds. Jacqueline Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché, and Kevin Walby. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.