Dr. Anna Schliehe
Anna Schliehe joined Trier in January 2024, having transferred from Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Anna works part-time to lead the project Women's Imprisonment, Social Control and the Carceral State (WISCA) and is also a Research Scientist at University of Bonn.
Anna Schliehe received her diploma from the University of Münster, Germany, in 2011 and subsequently completed an MRes in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. In 2016, she completed her PhD project entitled "Tracing outsideness: young women's institutional journeys and geographies of closed space." Her research is influenced by both human geography and criminology. She is interested in understanding the nature and experience of closed spaces and combines empirical with conceptually sophisticated research. Her research areas include the geography of prisons, the geography of young people, the ethnography of prisons, the geography of justice, and feminist geography.
Anna Schliehe has worked with qualitative and quantitative methods, exploring research in creative and collaborative ways. Her methods include feminist, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches in areas such as ethnography, interviews, surveys, observations, photography, mental mapping, and more.
Anna Schliehe has many years of teaching experience and has developed a range of formats. Her teaching is guided by her research interests and methods, as well as courses on research ethics, fieldwork practices, and more.
Publications
Books
Schliehe, A (2021) Young Women’s Carceral Geographies: Journeys In, Out, and Beyond Confinement. Emerald Publishing.
Moran, D.; Schliehe, A (Eds.) (2017) Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Journal articles
Schliehe, A.; Philo, C.; Carlin, B, Fallon, C., Penna, G. (2022) Lockdown under lockdown? Pandemic, the carceral and Covid-19 in British prisons. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Link
Doxatt-Pratt, S.; Schliehe, A.; Laursen, J. (2022) “Thank you for having me”: The experiences and meanings of release from prison in Norway and England & Wales. Incarceration. Link
Crewe, B.; Ievins, A.; Larmour, S.; Laursen, J.; Mjåland, K.; Schliehe, A. (2022) Nordic penal exceptionalism: a comparative, empirical analysis. British Journal of Criminology. Link
Auty, K.; Liebling, A.; Schliehe, A.; Crewe, B. (2022). What Is Trauma-Informed Practice? Towards Operationalisation of the Concept in Two Prisons for Women. Criminology & Criminal Justice. Link
Mjåland, K., Laursen, J., Schliehe, A., and Larmour, S. (2021) ‘Contrasts in freedom: comparing open and closed prisons in England & Wales and Norway’. European Journal of Criminology. Link
Schliehe A, Crewe, B (2021) Top Bunk, Bottom Bunk: Cellsharing in Prisons. British Journal of Criminology. Link
Fraser, A; Schliehe A (2021) The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave. British Journal of Criminology. Link
Schliehe, A.; Laursen, J.; Crewe, B. (2021) Loneliness in prison. European Journal of Criminology. Link
Henriksen, A.K.; Schliehe, A. (2020) Ethnography of young people in confinement – on subjectivity, positionality and situated ethics in closed space. Qualitative Research. Link
Disney, T.; Schliehe, A. (2019) Troubling institutions. Special Section Editorial. Area, Vol 51, No. 2, pp. 194-199.
Moran, D.; Turner, J.; Schliehe, A. (2017) Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography. Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, No.5, pp. 666–686. Link
Moran, D.; Turner, J.; Schliehe, A. (2017) Response to the commentary on ‘Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography’ by Moran et al. Progress in Human Geography, Vol 42, No.5, pp. 803–804. Link
Schliehe, A. (2016) Re-discovering Goffman – contemporary carceral geography, the ‘total’ institution and notes on heterotopia. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, Vol 98, No. 1, pp. 19-35. Link
Schliehe, A. (2014) ‘Inside ‘the carceral’: girls and young women in the Scottish Criminal Justice System’. Scottish Geographical Journal, Vol 130, No. 2, pp. 71-85. Link
Book chapters
Schliehe, A. (2022) Prisons and Camps. In: Guillaume, X. and Grayson, K. [Eds.] Security Studies Critical Perspectives. Oxford University Press. [in press]
Crowley, AR, Schliehe, AK, Vogel, M (2021) Girlhood incarcerated: perspectives from secure care. In: Vogel M, Arnell, L (Eds.) Living Like a Girl - Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in a European Context. Berghahn Books.
Moran, D; Schliehe, A (2017) Introduction: co-production and carceral spatiality. In: Moran, D; Schliehe, A (Eds.) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave, London, pp. 1-12.
Schliehe, A; Moran, D (2017) Conclusion: reflections on capturing the carceral. In: Moran, D; Schliehe, A (Eds.) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave, London, pp. 269-284.
Schliehe, A (2017) Towards a feminist carceral geography? Of female offenders and prison spaces’ In: Moran, D; Schliehe, A (Eds.) Confined Places, Secure Spaces: The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave, London, pp. 75-112.
Schliehe, A; Crowley, A (2017) Carefully controlled: young people and their pathways through spaces of secure care. In: Horton J; Pyer, M; (Eds.) Children, Young People and Care. Routledge, London, pp. 108-123.
Schliehe, A (2016) Constraint locomotion: of complex micro-scale mobilities in carceral environments. In: Peters, K; Turner, J (Eds.) Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration. Routledge, London, pp. 115-130.
Schliehe, A (2016) Locking up children and young people - secure care in Scotland. In: Horton, J; Evans, B; Skelton, T (Eds.) Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being: Geographies of Children and Young People 9. Springer, London, pp. 601-619.
Further publications
Moran, D., Schliehe, A. (Eds.) (2017) Confined Places, Secure Spaces. The Spatialisation of Studies of Confinement. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, London.
Schliehe, A. (2021) Young Women’s Carceral Geographies. Abandonment, Trouble and Mobility. Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
Schliehe, A. (2021) Research on prisoners’ experiences from Norway and England & Wales. Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners and Detainees.
Schliehe, A. (2021) Evidence Paper for the British Government: Women in Custody [unpublished].
Schliehe, A. (2021) Feeding back research on comparing the imprisonment of men convicted of sex offences in England & Wales and Norway. Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners and Detainees.
Schliehe, A.; Przybylska, D. (2021) Prison ‘more painful’ for women: Research. Inside Time - The National Newspaper for Prisoners and Detainees.
Schliehe, A. (2019) Thinking through water – elemental metaphors in carceral environments. COMPEN Blog.
Schliehe, A. (2019) Book Review A. Chamberlen. Punishment and Society
Schliehe, A. (2019) Missing people and the pains of entry in the UK. COMPEN Blog.
Schliehe, A. (2018) Women's imprisonment and the experiences of foreign nationals. Border Criminologies Blog
Schliehe, A. (2018) Carceral mobilities. COMPEN Blog.