Experiences of crime are often shadowed by spectral forces – ghostly remnants of past injustices, lingering traumas, and unresolved conflicts.
Inspired by Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology and Mark Fisher’s reinterpretation of the concept as a cultural condition of late capitalism, this conference invites scholars to explore the intersections of criminology and hauntology, engaging with themes of harm, justice, punishment, and deviance through the lens of spectrality, temporalities, and the uncanny.
We also seek contributions that interrogate the ghosts that haunt contemporary and future criminological thought and practice, in particular, those that critique the neoliberal consensus that Fisher argues has trapped society in a perpetual present, devoid of the possibility of a different future.
Please contact sian.lewis@plymouth.ac.uk for further information.
