This article addresses debates in the 'post-Occupy movement' over the resistant potential of prefigurative politics, and asks how prefiguration can be conceptualized as resistance in relation to activists' understanding of politics, power and social change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists in New York City, it looks at anarchist politics after Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Here, the absence of spectacular moments of confrontation and the removal of OWS's space of mobilization and organizing challenged activists to adjust their prefigurative politics to the shifting spaces post-Occupy. This paper advances our understanding of prefigurative politics by conceptualizing prefiguration as resistance in consideration of the elements of 'intent', 'recognition', 'opposition/confrontation' and 'creation'. Following this, it introduces the 'logic of subtraction' as a concept to understand the resistant potential of prefiguration. Here, I argue that rather than being in an antagonistic relationship with dominant power, resistant prefiguration aims for the creation of alternatives while subtracting power from the state, capital or any other external authority in order to render it obsolete. This understanding allows for a nuanced consideration of the proactive and creative potential of prefiguration, as well as of the difficulties of prefigurative practices in shifting movement spaces.

Cultural criminology emerged in the mid-nineties with defining texts written by Jock Young, Keith Hayward, and Jeff Ferrell, among others. Since its inception, it has been criticized for its shallow connections with feminist theory. While in theory cultural criminology clearly acknowledges the influence of feminist scholarship, it has in practice often only superficially ‘added’ on gender and sexuality to its scholarly investigations. Yet, as we argue, research identified with cultural criminology has much to gain from feminist theory. This article reviews a range of cultural criminological scholarship, particularly studies of subcultures, edgework, and terrorism. We investigate three themes significant for feminist research: masculinities and femininities, sexual attraction and sexualities, and intersectionality. Such themes, if better incorporated, would strengthen cultural criminology by increasing the explanatory power of resulting analyses. We conclude by advocating that feminist ideas be routinely integrated into cultural criminological research.

Jock Young's contribution to sociology and criminology over the last 40 years is difficult to fully appreciate. As has oft been noted, his contributions to criminology involved interventions into methodological and policy debates as well as theoretical achievements for which-of course-he is best known. Looking back, though, one of the most important concepts in Young's recent work has tended to be overlooked: social bulimia. This essay seeks to correct this omission by initially defining the concept that we believe Young was developing, though in incipient forms, beginning with his classic early study The Drugtakers (1971) through his last major work The Criminological Imagination (2011). After elaborating what Young meant by this idea, we apply social bulimia to three contemporary examples-terrorism, immigration and education-arguing for its utility, its wide-ranging cultural ramifications and its relevance for illuminating contemporary political, social and economic issues. Defining social bulimiaNone of this is to suggest that considerable forces of exclusion do not occur but the process is not that of a society of simple exclusion as originally posited. Rather it is one where both inclusion and exclusion occur concurrently-a bulimic society where massive cultural inclusion is accompanied by systematic structural exclusion. It is a society which has both strong centrifugal and centripetal currents: it absorbs and it rejects.

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