J Ferrell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 56754 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Ferrell |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Ferrell |
| ASSINATURA | FERRELL J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2096-7863 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 295 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Dirty pictures
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJeff FerrellJeff Ferrell is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, USA
Ghost Criminology
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…
In Defense of Resistance
Postcards from a pandemic
Freedom in the Form of a Boxcar
This chapter recounts the trip that the author and his gutter punk traveling companion, Zeke, took aboard a series of freight trains that carried them far into west Texas. The chapter documents the trip’s many drifting experiences: waiting in railyards, hiding from railroad workers, sleeping in the rain, moving from one train or one rail car to another (hotshots, units, boxcars), ultimately arriving in Pecos, Texas—and along the way getting lost …
Drift Contexts
This chapter develops a sociology of drift from the classic works of Robert Park, Georg Simmel, David Matza, Gresham Sykes, and others. It reconsiders Sykes and Matza’s “techniques of neutralization” model, arguing that it embodies a deeper sociological and cultural critique than that which is commonly attributed to it. The chapter then constructs a political economy and spatial economy of drift which locates drift within contemporary urban dynam…
Hobo History
This chapter begins by exploring the concept and practice of vagrancy, tracing the historical evolution of vagrancy laws, their twined illegalities of poverty and mobility, and their relevance in the social construction of hobos and drifters. The chapter then turns to the historical, political economic, and spatial production of the North American hobo. The progressive politics and collective organization of the hobo are next explored, with speci…
Beneath the Slab
This chapter addresses method in a broad sense: as a way of orienting ourselves to the world around us. In this context, the chapter argues that the methods needed to make sense of a world adrift must embody uncertainty, ambiguity, and fragmentation if we are to avoid making drift into something it is not. Developing this sort of method, however, will require abandoning existing methods that are conceptualized as the solid, foundational slabs on …
Drift Politics
The chapter begins by exploring the experiential politics of drift. Considering concepts and practices like the flâneur and the Situationist dérive , the chapter argues that drift can produce an expanding realm of experiential politics that incorporates a critical, comparative exteriority. Given this, drifters are able—or are forced—to see beyond the certainty of any one situation. The chapter then outlines a collective politics of drift by consi…
Catching Out
This chapter investigates a contemporary drifter subculture—that of train hoppers and “gutter punks”—by way of the author’s own adventures with members of this subculture and with one gutter punk, Zeke, in particular. The narrative considers a constellation of essential gutter punk activities like “flying a sign” (panhandling), dumpster diving (trash picking), and hopping (boarding) freight trains as components of this drifter subculture. The cha…
Ghost Images and Gorgeous Mistakes
Following from the argument made in the previous chapter, this final chapter opens with a consideration of ghost images. In a first sense, ghost images entail the problem of photographing ghosts and drifters and, with this, capturing the presence of absence and the visibility of invisibility. Here the photodocumentary tradition is recalled and reimagined and issues of photographic absence, intentionality, and surrealism are explored. In a second …
Drift Method
This chapter argues that to chase after drifters is to chase after ghosts. As victims of social death—as people degraded by the forced withdrawal of mutuality and shared respect from their lives—drifters are caught in spirals of spectral visibility and social invisibility that constitute them as desaparecidos (the disappeared). Consequently, the study of drifters requires what the author calls ghost method. Ghost method is attuned to the presence…
Drift Dialectics
This chapter documents the pervasive presence of drift and drifting populations throughout the contemporary world, arguing that drift may well be the defining global trajectory of our time. It then explores four dialectics of drift: drift as a historical and contemporary phenomenon; drift as dependency and autonomy; drift as individual and collective behavior; and drift as hope and despair. The chapter concludes that the distance that drift puts …
Cultural Criminology
Cultural criminology explores the many ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and crime control in contemporary society; put differently, cultural criminology emphasizes the centrality of meaning and representation in the construction of crime as momentary event, subcultural endeavor, and social issue. From this view, the appropriate subject matter of criminology transcends traditional notions of crime and crime ca…
Theses on Chambliss
Aburrimiento, crimen y criminología
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Cultural Criminology
This book traces the history, theory, methodology and future direction of cultural criminology. Drawing on issues of representation, meaning and politics, this book walks you through the key areas that make up this fascinating approach to the study of crime. The second edition has been fully revised to take account of recent developments in this fast developing field, thereby keeping you up-to-date with the issues facing cultural criminologists t…
Never boring
Jock Young (1942–2013) was one of the world’s foremost criminologists. This paper traces his academic career in sociology and criminology and its culmination in the theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach known as cultural criminology. Drawing on a 2008 interview with Professor Young and the authors’ longstanding relationship with him, this paper in addition explores the convergence of Young’s intellectual trajectory with the em…
Brutal Serendipity
Cultural Criminology and the Politics of Meaning
Provocateur for justice
Spot theory
Contemporary graffiti is a distinctly, if not exclusively, urban phenomenon; flowering over the past few decades from the social and cultural complexities of city life, it cannot be understood outside its urban context. Here we offer an interpretation of graffiti as a fluid urban practice, based in large part on our many years of writing graffiti in cities around the USA and beyond. In particular, we attempt to develop a situated spatial analysis…
Coda
Investigating the crisis of the present
As we begin Crime, Media, Culture’s fourth volume, the need for serious and sustained scholarly engagement with the intersections of crime, media and culture has never been greater. Around the world, genocidal criminality competes with global warming and a Spice Girls reunion for media attention. The United States gears up for a presidential election sure to be decided by distorted images of terrorism, gender, and crime. The Guardian declares tha…
Cultural Criminology
Cultural criminology explores the many ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and crime control in contemporary society; put differently, cultural criminology emphasizes the centrality of meaning and representation in the construction of crime as momentary event, subcultural endeavor, and social issue. From this view, the appropriate subject matter of criminology transcends traditional notions of crime and crime ca…
Criminologicalverstehen
Many past and present studies in criminology have developed out of engaged and often illegal field research-that is, field research in which the researcher of necessity crosses over into the world of criminality. Contemporary reevaluations of methodology, and specifically the role of the researcher in the research process, provide a framework for exploring anew the implications of such field research. In addition, a variety of contemporary crimin…
Boredom, Crime and Criminology
Under the dehumanizing conditions of modernism, boredom has come to pervade the experience of everyday life. This collective boredom has spawned not only moments of illicit excitement—that is, ephemeral crimes committed against boredom itself—but larger efflorescences of political and cultural rebellion. In the same way, the machinery of modern criminology has organized a vast collectivity of boredom buttressed by rationalized methodologies and a…
Cultural Criminology and the Politics of Meaning
Edgework, Media Practices, and the Elongation of Meaning
Edgework experiences have been subject to some discussion in recent literature. A form that finds a nexus between licit and illicit activities—BASE jumping—provides a fertile field for ethnographic and theoretical research. In criminology it provides insights into the sensual motivations and experiential frameworks for illicit social action in conjunction with moments of marginality and resistance. BASE jumping—the activity of illegally parachuti…
Spot theory
Contemporary graffiti is a distinctly, if not exclusively, urban phenomenon; flowering over the past few decades from the social and cultural complexities of city life, it cannot be understood outside its urban context. Here we offer an interpretation of graffiti as a fluid urban practice, based in large part on our many years of writing graffiti in cities around the USA and beyond. In particular, we attempt to develop a situated spatial analysis…
Urban Graffiti
Recently, a new style of youthful graffiti has emerged in cities throughout the United States and beyond. Based on 4 years of fieldwork inside the Denver, Colorado graffiti underground, and on field and document research in other U.S. and European cities, this article explores the many ways in which those who produce this graffiti resist the increasing segregation and control of urban environments and shows how participants in the graffiti underg…
For a ruthless cultural criticism of everything existing
Some scholars contend that cultural criminology has abandoned the critical analysis of capitalism’s criminogenic tendencies, resorting instead to a myopic subjectivism that romanticizes transgression and misses broader structures of inequality. On the contrary, cultural criminology can be seen to incorporate a constellation of critiques designed to expose the distinctly cultural dynamics of late capitalism and its crimes. From this view, cultural…
In Defense of Resistance
Investigating the crisis of the present
As we begin Crime, Media, Culture’s fourth volume, the need for serious and sustained scholarly engagement with the intersections of crime, media and culture has never been greater. Around the world, genocidal criminality competes with global warming and a Spice Girls reunion for media attention. The United States gears up for a presidential election sure to be decided by distorted images of terrorism, gender, and crime. The Guardian declares tha…
The State of State Crime Research
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
Postcards from a pandemic
Never boring
Jock Young (1942–2013) was one of the world’s foremost criminologists. This paper traces his academic career in sociology and criminology and its culmination in the theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach known as cultural criminology. Drawing on a 2008 interview with Professor Young and the authors’ longstanding relationship with him, this paper in addition explores the convergence of Young’s intellectual trajectory with the em…
It’s the image that matters
position -Visual Arts Editor -which will be filled by Cécile Van de Voorde.Reflecting our scholarly interest in the visual, we believe this new role will further cement CMC's distinctive and innovative approach to visual issues.In this context it is the visual, and its significance for explorations of crime, media and culture, that we wish to address briefly in this editorial.Inserts Images ALF2006 and LIAR2006 around here Today, the visual const…
Hip hop graffiti, Mexican murals and the war on terror
Editorial: Hip Hop Graffiti, Mexican Murals and the War on TerrorCrime, Media, Culture: an International Journal was borne out of two thoughts that came to us in the summer of 2002.The first was the realization that the time was right.In an age defined by media saturation and ubiquitous interpretive spin, a constant and inescapable flow and exchange of signs, symbols and codes, the increasingly blurred boundaries between the represented and the r…
Music Videos and Epistemic Socialization
Speed Kills
IRBs and State Crime
The song the capitalist never sings”
The Song the Capitalist Never Sings I want to be a working man and with the workers roam, The cross-roads for my palace car, a bull-pen for my home; I want to be a member of that free, untrammeled band, A ball-chain on my ankle and a pick-axe in my hand. I want to be a working man and hear the bosses sing The praise of “honest labor” while the big blue whistles ring; To cheer the starry banner 'till my empty insides bust, And be a company sucker …
James Connolly and the United States
Music Videos and Epistemic Socialization
Origins of Modernity
Civil Society as the Public The Dialectical Anthropology of Freedom The Science of Society From the Politics of Strangers to the World of Estranged Needs The German Ideology and the Paradigm of Production The Paradigm of Class Action Marx Against Marx Running on Time
The song the capitalist never sings”
The Song the Capitalist Never Sings I want to be a working man and with the workers roam, The cross-roads for my palace car, a bull-pen for my home; I want to be a member of that free, untrammeled band, A ball-chain on my ankle and a pick-axe in my hand. I want to be a working man and hear the bosses sing The praise of “honest labor” while the big blue whistles ring; To cheer the starry banner 'till my empty insides bust, And be a company sucker …
Urban Graffiti
Recently, a new style of youthful graffiti has emerged in cities throughout the United States and beyond. Based on 4 years of fieldwork inside the Denver, Colorado graffiti underground, and on field and document research in other U.S. and European cities, this article explores the many ways in which those who produce this graffiti resist the increasing segregation and control of urban environments and shows how participants in the graffiti underg…
Cultural Criminology
Criminologicalverstehen
Many past and present studies in criminology have developed out of engaged and often illegal field research-that is, field research in which the researcher of necessity crosses over into the world of criminality. Contemporary reevaluations of methodology, and specifically the role of the researcher in the research process, provide a framework for exploring anew the implications of such field research. In addition, a variety of contemporary crimin…
The State of State Crime Research
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
Ethnography at the Edge
IRBs and State Crime
Making Trouble
Edgework, Media Practices, and the Elongation of Meaning
Edgework experiences have been subject to some discussion in recent literature. A form that finds a nexus between licit and illicit activities—BASE jumping—provides a fertile field for ethnographic and theoretical research. In criminology it provides insights into the sensual motivations and experiential frameworks for illicit social action in conjunction with moments of marginality and resistance. BASE jumping—the activity of illegally parachuti…
Tearing down the Streets
Speed Kills
Sociology at the Edge
Boredom, Crime and Criminology
Under the dehumanizing conditions of modernism, boredom has come to pervade the experience of everyday life. This collective boredom has spawned not only moments of illicit excitement—that is, ephemeral crimes committed against boredom itself—but larger efflorescences of political and cultural rebellion. In the same way, the machinery of modern criminology has organized a vast collectivity of boredom buttressed by rationalized methodologies and a…
Hip hop graffiti, Mexican murals and the war on terror
Editorial: Hip Hop Graffiti, Mexican Murals and the War on TerrorCrime, Media, Culture: an International Journal was borne out of two thoughts that came to us in the summer of 2002.The first was the realization that the time was right.In an age defined by media saturation and ubiquitous interpretive spin, a constant and inescapable flow and exchange of signs, symbols and codes, the increasingly blurred boundaries between the represented and the r…
Borders breached, conventional claims questioned
Welcome to Volume 2 of Crime Media Culture: An International Journal.At a time when many of our geographical and cultural borders are ever more closely guarded, it seems apt to reflect on the intellectual and artistic borders breached and intersected across the pages of CMC.As the scholarship appearing in CMC suggests, these borders -most notably, but not exclusively, between criminology, media studies, and cultural studies -are often porous, and…
Cultural Criminology
Cultural criminology explores the many ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and crime control in contemporary society; put differently, cultural criminology emphasizes the centrality of meaning and representation in the construction of crime as momentary event, subcultural endeavor, and social issue. From this view, the appropriate subject matter of criminology transcends traditional notions of crime and crime ca…
It’s the image that matters
position -Visual Arts Editor -which will be filled by Cécile Van de Voorde.Reflecting our scholarly interest in the visual, we believe this new role will further cement CMC's distinctive and innovative approach to visual issues.In this context it is the visual, and its significance for explorations of crime, media and culture, that we wish to address briefly in this editorial.Inserts Images ALF2006 and LIAR2006 around here Today, the visual const…
For a ruthless cultural criticism of everything existing
Some scholars contend that cultural criminology has abandoned the critical analysis of capitalism’s criminogenic tendencies, resorting instead to a myopic subjectivism that romanticizes transgression and misses broader structures of inequality. On the contrary, cultural criminology can be seen to incorporate a constellation of critiques designed to expose the distinctly cultural dynamics of late capitalism and its crimes. From this view, cultural…
Coda
Investigating the crisis of the present
As we begin Crime, Media, Culture’s fourth volume, the need for serious and sustained scholarly engagement with the intersections of crime, media and culture has never been greater. Around the world, genocidal criminality competes with global warming and a Spice Girls reunion for media attention. The United States gears up for a presidential election sure to be decided by distorted images of terrorism, gender, and crime. The Guardian declares tha…
Provocateur for justice
Spot theory
Contemporary graffiti is a distinctly, if not exclusively, urban phenomenon; flowering over the past few decades from the social and cultural complexities of city life, it cannot be understood outside its urban context. Here we offer an interpretation of graffiti as a fluid urban practice, based in large part on our many years of writing graffiti in cities around the USA and beyond. In particular, we attempt to develop a situated spatial analysis…
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