Key details
Dr Alexandra Fanghanel
Associate Professor of Criminology
Alexandra Fanghanel joined the School of Law at the Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé in 2015. She is co-lead of the Gender Deviance and Society Research Group and Programme Leader of the BA Criminology and Criminal Justice. Following the completion of her PhD in 2011, she worked as a researcher and a lecturer in Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology. She researches fear of crime, gender, sexuality, and public space.
Responsibilities within the university
Alexandra Fanghanel joined the School of Law at the Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé in 2015.
- Programme Leader of BA Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Co-lead of the Gender Deviance and Society Research Group
Awards
- Winner of British Society of Criminology Women Crime and Criminal Justice Network (WCCJN) Paper prize, 2020
Recognition
- Steering Group member WCCJN 2020- present
Reviewer for:
- Feminist Criminology
- Psychology and Sexuality
- Sexualities
- Bristol University Press
- Policy Press
- Routledge
- Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Research / Scholarly interests
Alexandra’s research examines the intersection of gender, sexuality and public space against a background of contemporary rape culture and anxiety about securitisation. In 2020, Alexandra won the British Society of Criminology’s Women Crime and Criminal Justice paper prize.
In 2021, along with 4 colleagues, Alexandra published a Key Approaches to Criminology textbook called Sex and Crime with Sage.
In 2019, Alexandra published her first monograph ‘Disrupting Rape Culture: Public space, sexuality and revolt’ with Bristol University Press.
Since 2019, Alexandra has been co-lead of the Gender, Deviance and Society Research Group.
Her current projects consider:
- Consent and sexual subcultures, with specific focus on the so-called ‘rough sex defence’.
- The intersect of rape culture and femonationalism, which specific focus on discourses about Brexit
- New sexual cultures
Alexandra is happy to supervise PhD students in any of the following areas:
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Public space
- Fear of crime
- Consent
- Securitisation
Recent publications
Fanghanel, A, Milne, E, Zampini, G, Banwell, S, Fiddler, M (2021) Sex and Crime, Sage
Fanghanel, A (2019) Disrupting Rape Culture: Public Space, Sexuality and Revolt, Bristol, Bristol University Press/Policy Press
Fanghanel, A (2018) ‘How to break a rape culture: gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist’ chapter in Lee, M and Mythen, G (eds.) Routledge International Handbook on the Fear of Crime, Abingdon, Routledge, ISBN 9781138120334
Lim, J and Fanghanel, A (2016) ‘Temptresses and predators: Gender-based violence, safekeeping and the production of proper subjects’ chapter in Brown, G and Browne, K. (eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities, Abingdon, Routledge , ISBN 9781317043324
Fanghanel, A (2020) On Being Ugly: the grotesque politics of sexualised naked protest’ On Being Ugly: the grotesque politics of sexualised naked protest’ Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 35(2), 262-278
Fanghanel, A (2019) Asking for it: BDSM sexual practice and the trouble of consent. Sexualities, 23 3 269-289 [Winner of 2020 BSC Women Crime and Criminal Justice Prize]
Fanghanel, A and Lim J (2016) Of “Sluts” and “Arseholes” Antagonistic Desire and the Production of Sexual Vigilance, Feminist Criminologies, 12 4 341-360
Fanghanel, A (2015), ‘The trouble with safety: Subjectification, Safety and of Fear of Crime in Public Space’, Theoretical Criminology, 20 1 57-74
Fanghanel, A (2014) ‘Approaching/Departure: Effacement, Erasure and ‘Undoing’ the Fear of Crime’, Cultural Geographies, 21 3 343-361
Lim, J and Fanghanel, A (2013), 'Hijabs, Hoodies and Hotpants': Negotiating the 'Slut' in SlutWalk, Geoforum 48 20-215
Presentations
22/05/19 Fanghanel, A ‘Mapping Rape Culture: Nation and the struggle for social justice’, NORA Conference, Iceland
08/12/18 Fanghanel, A ‘On being ugly in public: the spatial politics of transgressive bodies’, Progressive Connexions conference, Vienna, Austria
05/09/18 Fanghanel, A Speaker at BSC Crime and Control Ethnography Symposium, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
30/08/18 Fanghanel, A ‘Mapping Rape Culture: Nation and the struggle for social justice’, Eurocrim, Sarajevo, BiH
05/04/18 Fanghanel, A ‘Penetrated space: At the threshold of propriety, sexual practice and the public’, American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, USA
01/09/17 Fanghanel, A ‘How to break a rape culture’, European Geographies of Sexuality Conference, Barcelona, Spain
14/08/17 Fanghanel, A ‘Mapping rape culture: Agonism and the struggle for social justice’, Sociological Imaginations Conference, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé, London, UK
14/11/16 Fanghanel, A ‘Penetrated spaces: At the threshold of propriety, sexual practice and the public’, American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, USA
24/04/16 Fanghanel, A ‘Asking for it: Negotiating consent, desire and rape culture’, American Association of Geography, San Francisco, USA
11/09/15 Fanghanel, A ‘The Pillory and the Ban: The Disputing Politics of Sexual Desire’, Operation Spanner Workshop, Royal Holloway University of London, UK