Crime and the Imaginary of Disaster

This study explores the 'imaginary of disaster' that appears in popular fictions about the apocalyptic breakdown of society. Focusing on representations of crime, law, violence, vengeance and justice, it argues that an exploration post-apocalyptic story-telling offer us valuable insights into social anxieties.

"Chaos! Apocalypse! Doom! In this volume Majid Yar takes up these most spectacular and enduring images of human mortality and masterfully traces them to their most familiar intersections crime, violence and disorder. Tangling with zombies, mutants and monsters of all kinds, Yar's vast and lively repertoire of political and cultural theory provides all the ammunition necessary to fight through our own apocalyptic fantasies and to imagine worlds less fraught by suffering and injustice. Whether you are a theoretically informed criminologist or simply hoping to decipher the nightly news, Crime and the Imaginary of Disaster will not disappoint. Read it! Get prepared!" - Travis Linnemann, School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University

Autorentext
Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He has researched and published widely in the areas of crime & deviance studies, media & popular culture, and social & criminological theory.

Inhalt

1. Situating the Apocalypse, Crime and Problem of Social Order 2. Law and Disorder in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape: Social Breakdown, Sovereign Power and the State of Emergency 3. Dangerous Others: 'Race' and Crime after the Apocalypse 4. Crime, Disaster and the Crisis of the Gender Order 5. The Utopian Apocalypse: Crime, Justice and Redemption