Some thoughts on Steve Hall's Theorizing Crime and Deviance: A New Perspective
What is startling is the breadth of our discipline and our growing tendency to identity niche areas of study that might better reflect the diversity of the postmodern multitude, their intersectional relations, their structural situations, their cultural norms, their dreams and desires, their concern...
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| Published in: | Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology 2014, Vol.6 (2), p.168 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | eng |
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | What is startling is the breadth of our discipline and our growing tendency to identity niche areas of study that might better reflect the diversity of the postmodern multitude, their intersectional relations, their structural situations, their cultural norms, their dreams and desires, their concerns and fears, and the various disciplinary systems that attempts to control their lives. While some fields in the social sciences have similarly failed to evolve and produce new ideas in keeping with these turbulent times, other disciplines external to social science - most notably continental European philosophy, radical economics, political theory and a revived psychoanalysis - are moving forward with some rapidity and providing us with new ways of grasping our unique historical conjuncture. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-8094 |