Belinda Morrissey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Belinda Morrissey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Belinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrissey |
| SIGNATURE | MORRISSEY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Murderer Within
Lisa Downing, The Subject, of Murder, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 241pp To be honest, the title of Lisa Downing's latest book: The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality and the Modern Killer, didn't immediately inspire me. Here we go again, I thought, with yet another study on the extraordinary otherness of those who kill. This book might provide a different taxonomy, or it might consider why murderers are seen to be exception…
Fear and Horror in a Small Town: The Legacy Of The Disappearance Of Marilyn Wallman
On 21 March, 1972, fourteen-year-old Mackay schoolgirl, Marilyn Wallman, rode her bike down a country lane which led from her house to the main road where she usually caught her school bus and vanished a mere 180 metres from her home. Her two brothers, walking only ten minutes behind their sister, found her bike lying in the road, its front wheel still ominously spinning. Her school bag was flung on the ground, its contents scattered in the dust.…
Monstrous Semantics: The Case of the Criminal Diaries
The Ethical Foundation of Performativity
This paper contributes to the debate among theorists of performativity as to whether this concept is founded in an ethical relation. I argue that recent theorisations of the performative, which ground the development of the performative subject within sociality, necessarily make ethics intrinsic to any understanding of performativity. Using the case of serial killer Karla Homolka, I explore four aspects of ethical relations—identity, otherness, r…
When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity
Utilities and utilitarianism
Utilities: in this paper, we decided to take the theme ‘Ute Culture’ very literally. The first ute that came to our minds was the white 4-wheel-drive ute, complete with custom-made canvas canopy, that Joanne Lees had described to investigators following the disappearance of her boyfriend Peter Falconio off the Stuart Highway on 14 July 2001. Not only did the ute strike us as such a quintessentially Australian vehicle for which the police were sea…
Crises of representation, or why don't feminists talk aboutMyra
Trace Evidence: The Uncertainty of the Real
This article examines the impact of trace items through their evocation and elevation to the status of the sublime object. The authors focus on the impact that things left behind by the dead or missing have on those whose loved them, arguing that such traces provide a glimmer of materiality that those left behind can desperately crave
Trace Evidence: The Uncertainty of the Real
This article examines the impact of trace items through their evocation and elevation to the status of the sublime object. The authors focus on the impact that things left behind by the dead or missing have on those whose loved them, arguing that such traces provide a glimmer of materiality that those left behind can desperately crave
Crises of representation, or why don't feminists talk aboutMyra
When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity
Utilities and utilitarianism
Utilities: in this paper, we decided to take the theme ‘Ute Culture’ very literally. The first ute that came to our minds was the white 4-wheel-drive ute, complete with custom-made canvas canopy, that Joanne Lees had described to investigators following the disappearance of her boyfriend Peter Falconio off the Stuart Highway on 14 July 2001. Not only did the ute strike us as such a quintessentially Australian vehicle for which the police were sea…
The Ethical Foundation of Performativity
This paper contributes to the debate among theorists of performativity as to whether this concept is founded in an ethical relation. I argue that recent theorisations of the performative, which ground the development of the performative subject within sociality, necessarily make ethics intrinsic to any understanding of performativity. Using the case of serial killer Karla Homolka, I explore four aspects of ethical relations—identity, otherness, r…
Fear and Horror in a Small Town: The Legacy Of The Disappearance Of Marilyn Wallman
On 21 March, 1972, fourteen-year-old Mackay schoolgirl, Marilyn Wallman, rode her bike down a country lane which led from her house to the main road where she usually caught her school bus and vanished a mere 180 metres from her home. Her two brothers, walking only ten minutes behind their sister, found her bike lying in the road, its front wheel still ominously spinning. Her school bag was flung on the ground, its contents scattered in the dust.…
Monstrous Semantics: The Case of the Criminal Diaries
The Murderer Within
Lisa Downing, The Subject, of Murder, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 241pp To be honest, the title of Lisa Downing's latest book: The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality and the Modern Killer, didn't immediately inspire me. Here we go again, I thought, with yet another study on the extraordinary otherness of those who kill. This book might provide a different taxonomy, or it might consider why murderers are seen to be exception…
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (2 works)