Short bio
I am a postdoctoral researcher (recipient of the grant of the Research Foundation – Flanders) at Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
My expertise is situated at the intersection of several domains: migration and ethnicity, youth crime and youth justice, institutional discourses, the (in)sensitivity to diversity of judicial institutions, and (countering) discriminatory practices. Theoretically, my work is informed by critical and cultural (narrative) criminology and it aims to further advance insights fostered within these fields.
I’m currently working on a three-year project Performing culture in youth courts: An active ethnography of narrative negotiations. This project further develops insights of narrative criminology, legal anthropology and participatory action research. It is set up in collaboration between Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.
Work details
- EMAIL: olga.petintseva@ugent.be
- TELEPHONE: +32 9 264 97 35
- TELEPHONE SECRETARIAT: +32 9 264 69 30
- ADRESS: Universiteitstraat 4, Ghent, Belgium
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9187-4253
Selected societal impact activities
- Promotor of CESSMIR (Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees)
- Director of the NGO SEER (Social Enhancement and Empowerment of Roma)
- Ghent – Close collaboration and reflections on the project Intra European Migration
Selected media
Selected events
- 18/09/2019 – Ghent – Meeting Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies
- 06/02/2020 – Antwerp – Studiedag 40 jaar Panopticon
Expertise
- Youth justice and social exclusion
- Critical and cultural criminology
- Qualitative research methods
Selected projects
Performing culture in youth courts: An active ethnography of narrative negotiations (postdoctoral fellowship, funded by Research Foundation – Flanders)
Selected publications
- Petintseva, O., Faria, R. & Eski, Y. (forthcoming). Interviewing the powerful in crime and crime control. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Petintseva, O. (2019). Confessions after “Socrates Light” : Eliciting and countering narratives of youth justice officials. In J. Fleetwood, L. Presser, S. Sandberg, & T. Ugelvik (Eds.), Emerald handbook of narrative criminology, 88-108. London: Emerald.
- Petintseva, O. (2019). ‘Entextualisation’ across institutional contexts : the impact of discourse in school reports on the juvenile justice trajectories of Roma youth. Youth Justice – An International Journal, 19(1), 3–24.
- Petintseva, O. (2018). Youth justice and migration : discursive harms. London: Palgrave Macmillan.