Bill Mcclanahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 288790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Mcclanahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclanahan |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLANAHAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2092-9613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Savage natures: Police and the wolf
This article picks up the trail of the wolf-in-police, from its European origins to the western frontiers of the United States and, finally, to the imaginaries of contemporary police power. We describe the role of the wolf as a prototypical criminal “enemy” of European and early American law, order, and civilization, the police obsession with the wolf as a mythical symbol of American indigeneity and a material threat to settler colonial order, an…
Police Power, Civil Order, and the Fabrication of Food (In)Security
Civil order is generally conceptualized as constructed by social institutional powers like law, and so it is fitting that civil order has received its most sustained consideration in the general areas of critical social and legal theory. At the same time, social order has emerged as a key concept for critical police studies in order to describe and analyze police power and the violences it produces. This article addresses police power and its lon…
Astronomical withdrawals: A green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects
Mining for natural resources on-Earth is commonplace and dates back over a hundred years at an industrial scale. Technological advances in outer space exploration are enabling the mining of extraterrestrial resources to transition from mere science fiction, to a serious possibility. In recent decades, several new start-up companies have arisen with the sole intention of exploiting resources that exist in outer space, such as on Earth’s moon, aste…
Little wars with the police: Aesthetic arsenals and intellects of insult
This paper describes the contemporary entanglement of “fuck the police” (FTP) and “all cops are bastards” (ACAB), locating each as examples of a growing rejection of an immiserating police power. We argue that these confrontational phrases emerge from the policed classes as relatively precise political diagnoses of a police power that is elementally concerned with the fabrication of capital’s social, racial, economic, and aesthetic order(s). In o…
Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue on Green Criminology
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
Learning about the Illegal and the “Lawful yet Awful”: Progressing Public Criminology in the University Classroom
In this article, we focus on the teaching of criminology in the university classroom. Considering the recent debates on “public criminology,” we examine teaching as a method of reaching more “publics.” As university educators we recognize “students are our first public” (Burawoy, 2008, p. 8) and as criminologists we want to rethink the form of instruction and the means of delivery of a criminological education. Yet this pedagogical picture is not…
Green Criminology for Social Sciences: Introduction to the Special Issue
April 22, 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day [...]
Earth–world–planet: Rural ecologies of horror and dark green criminology
This article responds to green criminology. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the coal-producing region of Appalachia and the processes of mountaintop removal mining, the article engages contemporary philosophy, ecocriticism, and “dark ecology” to suggest that green criminology rethink its linguistic categories and epistemological assumptions. The article employs an analysis of some examples of horror cinema to suggest criminological engag…
All Knowledge Begins with the Senses'1: Towards a Sensory Criminology
Visual criminology has established itself as a site of criminological innovation. Its ascendance, though, highlights ways in which the 'ocularcentrism' of the social sciences is reproduced in criminology. We respond, arguing for attention to the totality of sensorial modalities. Outlining the possible contours of a criminology concerned with smell, taste, sound and touch-along with the visual-the paper describes moments in which the sensory inter…
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology's first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover top
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Visual Criminology and the 'Black Sites' of the Rural
Black" has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Employed the state and capital, from the CIA and municipal police departments to corporations, the "black site" is a geography that conceals the knowledge of its own existence and boundaries. "Rurality" is a spatial concept characterized by the unknown and the blurred edges of its own temporal and material existence. Taking the common rural prison and Contained A…
Perceiving and Communicating Environmental Contamination and Change: Towards a Green Cultural Criminology with Images
Fractured earth, forced labour
This chapter focuses on an anthropocentrically oriented approach to environmental rights, as &s;environmental human rights&s;. It outlines how human rights are often conceptualised and typologised. The chapter also focuses on issues of environmental harms for rural peoples, communities and natural ecosystems, and the implications of these harms for human rights. The environmental impacts of fracking include increases in water pollution caused by …
‘Do Some Anti-Poaching, Kill Some Bad Guys, and Do Some Good’: Manhunting, Accumulation, and Pacification in African Conservation
On 5 January 2015, park rangers in the southernmost region of South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park—a park roughly the size of Israel—encountered a group of three armed men. Suspecting that the men were in the park to kill rhinoceros illegally in order to harvest and sell their horns on the global black market, the rangers confronted the men. According to the accounts of the rangers, the three men opened fire, leading to a brief shootout. Whe…
From ‘filth’ and ‘insanity’ to ‘peaceful moral watchdogs’: Police, news media, and the gang label
This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the state’s most powerful, yet ambiguous markers—the ‘gang.’ Focusing on the unique cases of ‘crews’ and collectives within the ‘straight edge’ and ‘Juggalo’ subcultures, this paper considers what leads members of the media and police to construct—or fail to construct—these street collectives as gangs in a seemingly haphazard and disparate fashion. Juxtaposin…
Climate Change and Peacemaking Criminology: Ecophilosophy, Peace and Security in the “War on Climate Change
Green and Grey: Water Justice, Criminalization, and Resistance
Toward a Green-Cultural Criminology of “the Rural
All Knowledge Begins with the Senses'1: Towards a Sensory Criminology
Visual criminology has established itself as a site of criminological innovation. Its ascendance, though, highlights ways in which the 'ocularcentrism' of the social sciences is reproduced in criminology. We respond, arguing for attention to the totality of sensorial modalities. Outlining the possible contours of a criminology concerned with smell, taste, sound and touch-along with the visual-the paper describes moments in which the sensory inter…
Earth–world–planet: Rural ecologies of horror and dark green criminology
This article responds to green criminology. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the coal-producing region of Appalachia and the processes of mountaintop removal mining, the article engages contemporary philosophy, ecocriticism, and “dark ecology” to suggest that green criminology rethink its linguistic categories and epistemological assumptions. The article employs an analysis of some examples of horror cinema to suggest criminological engag…
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Visual Criminology and the 'Black Sites' of the Rural
Black" has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Employed the state and capital, from the CIA and municipal police departments to corporations, the "black site" is a geography that conceals the knowledge of its own existence and boundaries. "Rurality" is a spatial concept characterized by the unknown and the blurred edges of its own temporal and material existence. Taking the common rural prison and Contained A…
Green and Grey: Water Justice, Criminalization, and Resistance
Toward a Green-Cultural Criminology of “the Rural
Climate Change and Peacemaking Criminology: Ecophilosophy, Peace and Security in the “War on Climate Change
Perceiving and Communicating Environmental Contamination and Change: Towards a Green Cultural Criminology with Images
From ‘filth’ and ‘insanity’ to ‘peaceful moral watchdogs’: Police, news media, and the gang label
This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the state’s most powerful, yet ambiguous markers—the ‘gang.’ Focusing on the unique cases of ‘crews’ and collectives within the ‘straight edge’ and ‘Juggalo’ subcultures, this paper considers what leads members of the media and police to construct—or fail to construct—these street collectives as gangs in a seemingly haphazard and disparate fashion. Juxtaposin…
Little wars with the police: Aesthetic arsenals and intellects of insult
This paper describes the contemporary entanglement of “fuck the police” (FTP) and “all cops are bastards” (ACAB), locating each as examples of a growing rejection of an immiserating police power. We argue that these confrontational phrases emerge from the policed classes as relatively precise political diagnoses of a police power that is elementally concerned with the fabrication of capital’s social, racial, economic, and aesthetic order(s). In o…
Green Criminology for Social Sciences: Introduction to the Special Issue
April 22, 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day [...]
Green and Grey: Water Justice, Criminalization, and Resistance
Toward a Green-Cultural Criminology of “the Rural
Climate Change and Peacemaking Criminology: Ecophilosophy, Peace and Security in the “War on Climate Change
Fractured earth, forced labour
This chapter focuses on an anthropocentrically oriented approach to environmental rights, as &s;environmental human rights&s;. It outlines how human rights are often conceptualised and typologised. The chapter also focuses on issues of environmental harms for rural peoples, communities and natural ecosystems, and the implications of these harms for human rights. The environmental impacts of fracking include increases in water pollution caused by …
‘Do Some Anti-Poaching, Kill Some Bad Guys, and Do Some Good’: Manhunting, Accumulation, and Pacification in African Conservation
On 5 January 2015, park rangers in the southernmost region of South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park—a park roughly the size of Israel—encountered a group of three armed men. Suspecting that the men were in the park to kill rhinoceros illegally in order to harvest and sell their horns on the global black market, the rangers confronted the men. According to the accounts of the rangers, the three men opened fire, leading to a brief shootout. Whe…
From ‘filth’ and ‘insanity’ to ‘peaceful moral watchdogs’: Police, news media, and the gang label
This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the state’s most powerful, yet ambiguous markers—the ‘gang.’ Focusing on the unique cases of ‘crews’ and collectives within the ‘straight edge’ and ‘Juggalo’ subcultures, this paper considers what leads members of the media and police to construct—or fail to construct—these street collectives as gangs in a seemingly haphazard and disparate fashion. Juxtaposin…
Perceiving and Communicating Environmental Contamination and Change: Towards a Green Cultural Criminology with Images
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century
Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century represents criminology's first book-length contribution to the study of water and water-related crimes, harms and security. The chapters cover top
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Visual Criminology and the 'Black Sites' of the Rural
Black" has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Employed the state and capital, from the CIA and municipal police departments to corporations, the "black site" is a geography that conceals the knowledge of its own existence and boundaries. "Rurality" is a spatial concept characterized by the unknown and the blurred edges of its own temporal and material existence. Taking the common rural prison and Contained A…
Earth–world–planet: Rural ecologies of horror and dark green criminology
This article responds to green criminology. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the coal-producing region of Appalachia and the processes of mountaintop removal mining, the article engages contemporary philosophy, ecocriticism, and “dark ecology” to suggest that green criminology rethink its linguistic categories and epistemological assumptions. The article employs an analysis of some examples of horror cinema to suggest criminological engag…
All Knowledge Begins with the Senses'1: Towards a Sensory Criminology
Visual criminology has established itself as a site of criminological innovation. Its ascendance, though, highlights ways in which the 'ocularcentrism' of the social sciences is reproduced in criminology. We respond, arguing for attention to the totality of sensorial modalities. Outlining the possible contours of a criminology concerned with smell, taste, sound and touch-along with the visual-the paper describes moments in which the sensory inter…
Green Criminology for Social Sciences: Introduction to the Special Issue
April 22, 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day [...]
Learning about the Illegal and the “Lawful yet Awful”: Progressing Public Criminology in the University Classroom
In this article, we focus on the teaching of criminology in the university classroom. Considering the recent debates on “public criminology,” we examine teaching as a method of reaching more “publics.” As university educators we recognize “students are our first public” (Burawoy, 2008, p. 8) and as criminologists we want to rethink the form of instruction and the means of delivery of a criminological education. Yet this pedagogical picture is not…
Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue on Green Criminology
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
Astronomical withdrawals: A green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects
Mining for natural resources on-Earth is commonplace and dates back over a hundred years at an industrial scale. Technological advances in outer space exploration are enabling the mining of extraterrestrial resources to transition from mere science fiction, to a serious possibility. In recent decades, several new start-up companies have arisen with the sole intention of exploiting resources that exist in outer space, such as on Earth’s moon, aste…
Little wars with the police: Aesthetic arsenals and intellects of insult
This paper describes the contemporary entanglement of “fuck the police” (FTP) and “all cops are bastards” (ACAB), locating each as examples of a growing rejection of an immiserating police power. We argue that these confrontational phrases emerge from the policed classes as relatively precise political diagnoses of a police power that is elementally concerned with the fabrication of capital’s social, racial, economic, and aesthetic order(s). In o…
Police Power, Civil Order, and the Fabrication of Food (In)Security
Civil order is generally conceptualized as constructed by social institutional powers like law, and so it is fitting that civil order has received its most sustained consideration in the general areas of critical social and legal theory. At the same time, social order has emerged as a key concept for critical police studies in order to describe and analyze police power and the violences it produces. This article addresses police power and its lon…
Savage natures: Police and the wolf
This article picks up the trail of the wolf-in-police, from its European origins to the western frontiers of the United States and, finally, to the imaginaries of contemporary police power. We describe the role of the wolf as a prototypical criminal “enemy” of European and early American law, order, and civilization, the police obsession with the wolf as a mythical symbol of American indigeneity and a material threat to settler colonial order, an…
Sociology (13 works) · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (12 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Green criminology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · History (4 works)