Shock and Awe: On Progressive Minimalism and Retreatism, and the New Ultra-Realism

Winlow, Simon; Hall, Steve

doi:10.1007/s10612-019-09431-1

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“…Ultra-realism emphasizes the importance of contextual conditions, history, political economy and structural changes (Winlow and Hall 2019). By conducting in-depth qualitative research and theorizing data, we advance understanding and respond to calls from both ultrarealism and social harm researchers for criminology to broaden its scope and explicate neoliberalism's damaging but normalized harms (Davies et al 2019;Kotzé 2018;Pemberton 2016;Tombs and Hillyard 2004).…”

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From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town”: Industrial Collapse and Social Harm in Teesside

Telford

Lloyd

2020

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This article explicates the harms associated with deindustrialization in Teesside in the North East of England in the context of neoliberalism. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews (n=25), the article explores how ongoing industrial collapse, typified by Sahaviriya Steel Industries' (SSI) closure in 2015 has generated various harms. First, the article examines industrialism's socioeconomic security and stability. It then explores the negative impact of SSI's closure in 2015, including a sense of loss and unemployment. Next, it demonstrates how the absence of economic stability produces harmful outcomes, namely insecurity, mental health problems and bleak visions of the future. The article concludes by casting industrial ruination as an impediment to human flourishing; the normal functioning of capitalism represents a "negative motivation to harm" that prevents the stability and security necessary for individual and collective flourishing.

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confidence: 99%

From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town”: Industrial Collapse and Social Harm in Teesside

Telford

Lloyd

2020

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“…The perpetrator felt a sense of entitlement that Anna's money belonged to him. As noted by Winlow and Hall (2019) and Yardley (2020), male abusers embody insecure neo-liberal insecurities. To tackle the threat of female economic impendence, a physical threat is used to establish dominance (Ellis, 2017).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Due to the wide scale of ultra-realism, only specific aspects of ultra-realism will be utilised, namely special liberty (Hall, 2012) and benign neglect (Treadwell et al, 2020). Neoliberalism, a by-product of capitalism, was established in Britain in the 1970s (Hall and Winlow, 2019). The change of political economy eradicated traditional cultures into the form of consumerism (Leitner et al, 2007;Hall and Winlow, 2015).…”

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Experiences of domestic abuse within the South Asian community

Azad¹

2021

Journal of Global Faultlines

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The Black Lives Matter social movement has once again raised important societal issues around structural and racial inequalities. These issues stem from our political and social structures, which are argued to be a continuance of colonial rule and which allow injustice to amplify. There are many who continue to suffer and are often overlooked, namely victims of domestic abuse within the South Asian community. The Domestic Abuse Bill (DAB) is currently going through the Parliamentary process. It is argued that the DAB is flawed due to an absence of provisions and support for minority ethnic groups, namely the South Asian community. Previous scholarly research has documented the prevalence of honour-based abuse within the South Asian community. Despite the unique nature of abuse, this is not acknowledged in the DAB. The purpose of this paper is to uncover the unique experiences of domestic abuse within the South Asian community by thematically analysing two Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs). The findings will be discussed using aspects of ultra-realism, namely special liberty, and benign neglect. These findings will form the basis of reasoning behind amendment suggestions for the DAB. Following the thematic analysis of the two DHRs and critical literature review, three recommendations were formed: 1) Removal of ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’, thus providing funding to all, despite immigration status; 2) Provide education to police officers and GPs regarding domestic abuse and how it often differs depending on culture, namely the South Asian community; and 3) Implement neighbourhood committees across Britain that have a working relationship with the police to identify cases of domestic abuse within this South Asian demographic.

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“…These include perpetrators threatening and murdering potential whistle-blowers or perpetuating unsafe working conditions in the name of lowering the production costs that then lead to worker injuries and deaths. Within criminology, studies have underscored physical, social, and economic harms caused by crimes of the powerful perpetrated by people in positions of trust, whether in the private sector or those in government working to regulate the financial industry, while also recognizing the lack of social concern for them relative to other types of crime (Hall & Winlow, 2015 ; Kotzé, 2019 ; Kauzarlich & Rothe, 2014 ; Reiman & Leighton, 2016 ; Rothe & Kauzlarich, 2016 ; Winlow and Hall, 2019 ). Overall, incidents of financial crime are normalized as part of the necessary workings of the economic system.…”

Section: Critical Criminology and The Rigged Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Capitalism as Blood Sacrifice: Mainstream American Comic Books and Depictions of Economic Inequality

Phillips

Strobl

2022

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The past few decades have witnessed unprecedented global economic catastrophes that exacerbated pre-existing socioeconomic inequalities. Although many scholars have attributed the resulting social harms to the failures of neoliberal capitalism—and recognize it as criminogenic—the logics upholding the economic order continue to hold sway among the public. Given that these logics are commonly reinforced through media and popular culture narratives, in this paper we explore how economic inequalities are portrayed in American comic books. We employ a thematic analysis of comic book depictions of mass economic destruction and economic inequality from the financial crisis of 2008 through the Occupy Wall Street movement to the more recent characterization of a post-capitalist existence under the throes of a global plutocracy. In doing so we recognize the potential for re-imagining alternatives to neoliberal capitalism, taking a critical criminological lens to the comic books. We then place The Black Monday Murders , a culmination of portrayals of economic inequality and related violence, in the context of more mainstream comic book depictions and discuss how this particular work exemplifies a rising theme in comics—a purported trade-off between global capitalism and human life, a discussion point that explicitly entered American public discourse during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Shock and Awe: On Progressive Minimalism and Retreatism, and the New Ultra-Realism

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town”: Industrial Collapse and Social Harm in Teesside

From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town”: Industrial Collapse and Social Harm in Teesside

Experiences of domestic abuse within the South Asian community

Global Capitalism as Blood Sacrifice: Mainstream American Comic Books and Depictions of Economic Inequality

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