Sophie’s research interests include carceral geography, the sociology of emotions, coloniality, affect theory, prison-to-community reintegration, necro- and biopolitics, the criminalization of houselessness, and housing policy.
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Selected Publications & Interviews
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Lachapelle, S., & Kilty, J. M. (2024). Slow violence and the coloniality of carceral foodways in Canadian federal prisons. Food & Foodways 32(4), 349-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2024.2405798
Lachapelle, S., & Kilty, J. M. (2023). « Vous étiez soulagé, mais en même temps terrifié » : Explorer les géographies émotionnelles des admissions et des libérations dans les prisons fédérales canadiennes. Criminologie 56(2). https://doi.org/10.7202/1107596ar
Lachapelle, S., & Kilty, J. M. (2023). “Use your common sense to navigate and you’re gonna get along okay”: Exploring the sensorial politics of attunement, survival, and resistance in Canadian federal prisons. Emotion, Space & Society 48, 100962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100962
Lachapelle, S., Bogosavljevic, K., & Kilty, J. M. (2022). In the name of health: Affect theory and the role of public health risks in the creation of carceral spaces. Health, Risk & Society 24(7-8), 336-353. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2113508
Lachapelle, S., & May, A. (2021). A matter of life and death: Exploring the necropolitical limbo of Kingston’s housing crisis in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research 10(1), 321-347. (Open Access).
Other Publications:
Lachapelle, S. (2023, November 9). Letter in response to Kingston councillor’s opinion on ‘Community Standards’ bylaw. The Kingstonist. https://www.kingstonist.com/culture/opinion/letter-in-response-to-kingston-councillors-opinion-on-community-standards-bylaw/
Lachapelle, S. (2023, August 16). Who benefits from the City of Kingston’s newly drafted “Community Standards” by-law? Spoiler alert: it’s not people who are unhoused. The Kingstonist. https://www.kingstonist.com/culture/opinion/opinion-who-benefits-from-the-city-of-kingstons-newly-drafted-community-standards-by-law-spoiler-alert-its-not-people-who-are-unhoused/
Lachapelle, S., Kainth, J., & Boisvert, L. (2022, April 13). Lachapelle, Kainth and Boisvert: Why are people held at the Ottawa jail so vaccine-hesitant? In their shoes, you might be too. Ottawa Citizen. https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/lachapelle-kainth-and-boisvert-why-are-people-held-at-the-ottawa-jail-so-vaccine-hesitant-in-their-shoes-you-might-be-too
Lachapelle, S., & May, A. (2021). Kingston’s housing crisis and COVID-19: A matter of life and death. (Policy Report). https://sophielachapelle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kingstons-housing-crisis-and-covid-19-a-matter-of-life-and-death.pdf
Lachapelle, S. (2021, May). “It’s set up so you trip and fall”: A report about formerly incarcerated people’s experiences of prison-to-community reintegration in Kingston, Ontario. (Policy Report). https://sophielachapelle.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/policy-report-may-2021.pdf
Lachapelle, S. (2021, March 3). Too little, too late: Reflecting on the City’s commitment to affordable housing on the first anniversary of the Mayor’s Taskforce on Housing Report. The Kingstonist. https://www.kingstonist.com/culture/opinion/opinion-too-little-too-late-reflecting-on-the-citys-commitment-to-affordable-housing-on-the-first-anniversary-of-the-mayors-taskforce-on-housing-report/
Lachapelle, S. (2020). Prison and its afterlives: Haunting and the emotional geographies offormerly incarcerated people’s reintegration experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. QSpace Queen’s Graduate Theses and Dissertations. (Open Access).
Media Interviews:
Kirby, S. (Author). (2024). Bylaw band-aid: “An emotional solution to a structural problem. Skeleton Press (Winter 2024). https://skeletonparkartsfest.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SP_v15_FORWEB_8Feb2024.pdf
Mills, S. (Host). (2022, April 12). Vaccine hesitancy at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre [Radio program]. In, All in a Day. Ottawa, Ontario. CBC Ottawa (91.5FM) https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-92-all-in-a-day/clip/15906379-vaccine-hesitancy-ottawa-carleton-detention-centre
Mills, S. (Host). (2021, May 11). Experience with reintegration into Kingston after prison sentence [Radio program]. In, All in a Day. Ottawa, Ontario. CBC Ottawa (91.5FM) https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-92-all-in-a-day/clip/15842537-experience-reintegration-kingston-prison-sentence
Abs, R. (Host). (2021, May 5). Interview with Sophie Lachapelle [Radio program]. In, CFRC’s Prison Radio. Kingston, Ontario. CFRC (101.9FM). https://audio.cfrc.ca/archives/2021-05-05-19.mp3
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