This book sets to explore the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology, bringing together a set of leading authorities in the field from the UK, Australasia and the USA. A key concern of the book is to review the possibilities and strategies of pursuing critical criminological scholarship in the context of an increasingly dominant administrative criminology paradigm, reflected in the rise of neo-liberalism, a 'governmentalised' criminology of risk, crime control and situational crime prevention
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Abstract This article explores the theory and practice of critique in the works of the Lebanese Communist intellectual Husayn Muruwwa (1910–1987) and his grandson Rabih Mroué (b. 1967). Husayn Muruwwa, one of the most important Arab intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century, reinvented literary criticism and cultural critique in the 1950s and '60s. His grandson, one of the most prominent Arab visual artists, has been redefining the critical approach to visual representation since the Lebanese civil war. The article pits Husayn Muruwwa's critique based on collective hope and emancipation against his grandson's vision of an individualistic critique based on desire. It considers the critical and political writings of Husayn Muruwwa and Rabih Mroué's performances, video lectures, and interviews to explore specifically how they represent hope in relation to critique, and it ultimately suggests a participatory aesthetics that is common to both and that transcends their autobiographical statements and establishes resonances between their thought. Their approaches to critique, the article illustrates, play out as revised inheritances of both the Arab renaissance (nahda) and the national liberation movements in the 1970s. These revisions create a continuity that is critical to understanding the relationship between critique and hope in the Arab intellectual tradition.
An introductory chapter notes that this volume offers a different approach to security than the "political realism" approach that emerged during the Cold War & is a static theory that fails to explain how the world really works. The inadequate methodology, regressive assumptions, & narrow agenda of political realism are pointed out to illustrate the many ways it runs counter to human interests. In contrast, critical approaches to international relations are said to provide a more sophisticated & genuinely realistic accounting for phenomena that is both self-reflective & open to change. Critical security studies (CSS) is based on the idea that "security is essentially a derivative concept" that involves rethinking security from the bottom up in ways that deepen & broaden the security studies agenda. The chapters in this volume are organized in relation to three core concepts of CSS: security, community, & emancipation. Taken together, they offer students of security a deeper perspective than what is currently available within more orthodox security studies. J. Lindroth
In: The paper was prepared for a conference at Princeton University on Critical Legal Studies: Intellectual History and History of the Present, February 2020.
