Jane Kilby
Biographic Data
| ID | 307446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Kilby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilby |
| SIGNATURE | KILBY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sociography: Writing Differently
Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, an…
Saving the girl: A creative reading of Alice Sebold's Lucky and The Lovely Bones
In the late 1990s, Alice Sebold is writing what will become her phenomenally successful novel The Lovely Bones (2002), but she finds herself having to abandon it in order to write her critically acclaimed rape memoir Lucky (1999). She did not want, she says years later, Susie Salmon (the novel's dead narrator) doing "work for her", but wanted Susie free "to tell her own story". Lucky would be the "real deal" about rape, while The Lovely Bones wou…
The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the ground breaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the expl…
An interview with Michel Wieviorka: Violence, evil, and good
Introduction to Special Issue: Theorizing Violence
This special issue asks ‘What is violence?’ and as such it makes good on sociology’s neglect of what, by any account, constitutes a pressing reality for millions. Indeed, while the ‘scale and pervasiveness of violence today call urgently for serious analysis’ (Bernstein, Leys and Panitch, 2008: 6), sociologists and social theorists have been slow to respond. The contributors to this special issue are helping sociology to catch up, reflecting, as …
The visual fix: The seductive beauty of images of violence
This article questions the value of photographs of violence and suffering. Taking Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois' anthology Violence in War and Peace (2004) as a point of departure and return, it will explore the significance of the inclusion of images of explicit violence when they readily acknowledge they risk both indifference and voyeuristic interest. Key to my analysis is the centrality of the body to the images. Scheper-Hughes a…
Judith Butler, incest, and the question of the child's love
In contrast to Judith Herman, who understands incest exclusively in terms of power, Judith Butler insists on the importance of the child's love for our understanding of incest. Butler's thinking in this respect is suggestive but underdeveloped, while also holding considerable implications for how we might understand the role of violence in social life. This article develops and assesses her thinking on the child's love and its relation to the que…
Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma
During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome…
Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma
Jane Kilby provides an account of the rise and formation of contemporary mass trauma culture. She offers new, theoretically informed understandings about the relationship between the public sphere, mass reception and cultural change. Case studies are provided throughout.
Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism
A withdrawn vision: Art, Realism and the Scene of Incest
Via a reading of incest survivor art, this essay explores the possibility of a political aesthetic based on the unrepresentability of trauma. Key to this essay is the idea that trauma cannot be redeemed by art and it is therefore necessary to develop a reading of art that does not seek to resolve the horror of incest. Drawing inspiration from Hal Foster's influential notion of traumatic realism, the aim of this essay is to develop a critical lang…
Redeeming memories: The politics of trauma and history
Introduction to Special Issue: Theorizing Violence
This special issue asks ‘What is violence?’ and as such it makes good on sociology’s neglect of what, by any account, constitutes a pressing reality for millions. Indeed, while the ‘scale and pervasiveness of violence today call urgently for serious analysis’ (Bernstein, Leys and Panitch, 2008: 6), sociologists and social theorists have been slow to respond. The contributors to this special issue are helping sociology to catch up, reflecting, as …
Sociography: Writing Differently
Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, an…
The visual fix: The seductive beauty of images of violence
This article questions the value of photographs of violence and suffering. Taking Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois' anthology Violence in War and Peace (2004) as a point of departure and return, it will explore the significance of the inclusion of images of explicit violence when they readily acknowledge they risk both indifference and voyeuristic interest. Key to my analysis is the centrality of the body to the images. Scheper-Hughes a…
A withdrawn vision: Art, Realism and the Scene of Incest
Via a reading of incest survivor art, this essay explores the possibility of a political aesthetic based on the unrepresentability of trauma. Key to this essay is the idea that trauma cannot be redeemed by art and it is therefore necessary to develop a reading of art that does not seek to resolve the horror of incest. Drawing inspiration from Hal Foster's influential notion of traumatic realism, the aim of this essay is to develop a critical lang…
Redeeming memories: The politics of trauma and history
Redeeming memories: The politics of trauma and history
A withdrawn vision: Art, Realism and the Scene of Incest
Via a reading of incest survivor art, this essay explores the possibility of a political aesthetic based on the unrepresentability of trauma. Key to this essay is the idea that trauma cannot be redeemed by art and it is therefore necessary to develop a reading of art that does not seek to resolve the horror of incest. Drawing inspiration from Hal Foster's influential notion of traumatic realism, the aim of this essay is to develop a critical lang…
Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism
Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma
During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome…
Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma
Jane Kilby provides an account of the rise and formation of contemporary mass trauma culture. She offers new, theoretically informed understandings about the relationship between the public sphere, mass reception and cultural change. Case studies are provided throughout.
Judith Butler, incest, and the question of the child's love
In contrast to Judith Herman, who understands incest exclusively in terms of power, Judith Butler insists on the importance of the child's love for our understanding of incest. Butler's thinking in this respect is suggestive but underdeveloped, while also holding considerable implications for how we might understand the role of violence in social life. This article develops and assesses her thinking on the child's love and its relation to the que…
An interview with Michel Wieviorka: Violence, evil, and good
Introduction to Special Issue: Theorizing Violence
This special issue asks ‘What is violence?’ and as such it makes good on sociology’s neglect of what, by any account, constitutes a pressing reality for millions. Indeed, while the ‘scale and pervasiveness of violence today call urgently for serious analysis’ (Bernstein, Leys and Panitch, 2008: 6), sociologists and social theorists have been slow to respond. The contributors to this special issue are helping sociology to catch up, reflecting, as …
The visual fix: The seductive beauty of images of violence
This article questions the value of photographs of violence and suffering. Taking Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois' anthology Violence in War and Peace (2004) as a point of departure and return, it will explore the significance of the inclusion of images of explicit violence when they readily acknowledge they risk both indifference and voyeuristic interest. Key to my analysis is the centrality of the body to the images. Scheper-Hughes a…
The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the ground breaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the expl…
Saving the girl: A creative reading of Alice Sebold's Lucky and The Lovely Bones
In the late 1990s, Alice Sebold is writing what will become her phenomenally successful novel The Lovely Bones (2002), but she finds herself having to abandon it in order to write her critically acclaimed rape memoir Lucky (1999). She did not want, she says years later, Susie Salmon (the novel's dead narrator) doing "work for her", but wanted Susie free "to tell her own story". Lucky would be the "real deal" about rape, while The Lovely Bones wou…
Sociography: Writing Differently
Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, an…
Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (4 works)