Matthew P Unger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4871398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew P Unger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew P |
| FAMILY NAME | Unger |
| SIGNATURE | UNGER M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8372-2660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Violence, Misrecognition, and Place
This paper is concerned with exploring legal atmospheres during colonial expansionism and the early period of confederation of British Columbia. By describing the theatrical and performative aspects of legal colonialism, the archival documents from this time represent interesting, yet oft-overlooked, significances that attention to sensory and affective experiences captures. Examining "affective atmospheres" disclosed in such colonial settings re…
Winter’s Topography, Law, and the Colonial Legal Imaginary in British Columbia
This article examines how images of nature, weather, and topography disclose a politics of recognition (who is visible/invisible) invested in a burgeoning criminal justice milieu, where punishment of wrongdoing became increasingly racialized in British Columbia during the early confederation period of Canada's history. Drawing from archived court documents and colonial writing, it examines dominant environmental metaphors and tropes that structur…
Ode à un Dieu agonisant
Que le milieu du métal extrême cultive des liens conflictuels avec la religion n’a rien de nouveau. Toutefois, l’engagement du métal extrême avec « Dieu » est éminemment complexe en ce sens qu’il va bien au-delà du simple concept de dérision, de dédain ou de satyre. À travers une analyse approfondie de l’album Monotheist de Celtic Frost, et de la compilation Through the Cervix of Hawaah / λόγος d’Antediluvian, le présent article explore l’engagem…
Accusation
The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension of criminalizing justice; namely, accusation. Criminal accusation, however, does more than define the outer borders of criminal justice institutions…
Understanding the unthinkable
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Understanding the unthinkable
Accusation
The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension of criminalizing justice; namely, accusation. Criminal accusation, however, does more than define the outer borders of criminal justice institutions…
Ode à un Dieu agonisant
Que le milieu du métal extrême cultive des liens conflictuels avec la religion n’a rien de nouveau. Toutefois, l’engagement du métal extrême avec « Dieu » est éminemment complexe en ce sens qu’il va bien au-delà du simple concept de dérision, de dédain ou de satyre. À travers une analyse approfondie de l’album Monotheist de Celtic Frost, et de la compilation Through the Cervix of Hawaah / λόγος d’Antediluvian, le présent article explore l’engagem…
Winter’s Topography, Law, and the Colonial Legal Imaginary in British Columbia
This article examines how images of nature, weather, and topography disclose a politics of recognition (who is visible/invisible) invested in a burgeoning criminal justice milieu, where punishment of wrongdoing became increasingly racialized in British Columbia during the early confederation period of Canada's history. Drawing from archived court documents and colonial writing, it examines dominant environmental metaphors and tropes that structur…
Violence, Misrecognition, and Place
This paper is concerned with exploring legal atmospheres during colonial expansionism and the early period of confederation of British Columbia. By describing the theatrical and performative aspects of legal colonialism, the archival documents from this time represent interesting, yet oft-overlooked, significances that attention to sensory and affective experiences captures. Examining "affective atmospheres" disclosed in such colonial settings re…
Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)