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2025Friday 26th September 2025In personPanel 4Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

“I hate my father” – what research with the children of prisoners can tell us about the Emperor of Mankind and his sons

In the 41st Millennium the Emperor of Mankind occupies many archetypal roles – Theos Patēr, Christ, who died to save humanity, Prometheus, beloved father to the Loyalists and hated, rejected father to the Traitors. He’s also a prisoner, caged by the Golden Throne, and by circumstances. Drawing on my research with the children of prisoners, …

2024OnlinePanel 21Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

Warhammer in Carceral Environments: An ethnographic exploration

The experience of imprisonment is an experience of powerlessness. Prisoners get to control almost nothing about their lives. Many turn to creative pastimes as a way to escape, to pass the time and to reassert control over a part of their lives. Prisoners may build with matchsticks, write or draw. When I was a prisoner …