Fiddler, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-6770 (2022) “The baseless fabric of this vision”: criminology, spectrality and the dialectic image. In: Fiddler, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-6770, Kindynis, Theo and Linnemann, Travis, (eds.) Ghost Criminology. Alternative Criminology . New York University Press. ISBN 978-1479842438; 978-1479885725; 978-1479848935

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Abstract

This chapter explores the ways in which the images used and produced within criminology have long been 'haunted'. In this piece, we examine the ways in which notions of (in)visibility have shaped the construction of crime and the criminal 'Other' within the social imaginary. The chapter's innovation lies in its development of Walter Benjamin's 'dialectical image' to 'conjure a ghost' and apply Derrida's notion of hauntology to ecological crimes that span time. This presents a new and vital conceptual framework to examine this important area.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hauntology; phantasmagoria; visual criminology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology D History General and Old World > D History (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC)
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2024 11:18
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/26301

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