ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a critical recovery of the histories and lives of certain marginalized people using inter-textual research to represent the complexity of lived lives in conditions of liquid modern society. Inter-textual and imaginative methodologies are a response to the fragmentation, plurality and utter complexity of liquid times and seek to counter valorizing discourses and the reduction of the Other to a cipher of the oppressed/marginalized/exploited. Mixing participatory, performative, visual and arts-based research methods, defined as ‘ethno-mimesis’, 1 and undertaken in participation with the usual ‘subjects’ of research, can highlight the contradictions of oppression and the complexity of what Paul Piccone (1993) calls ‘the permanent crisis of the totally administered society’. Such imaginative mixing of methods may also help criminologists to produce critical reflexive texts that address social harm, foster social justice and approach a radical democratic imaginary.
