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1. Introduction : name your beliefs; identify your enemy -- 2. Part I : Gulags and gas chambers -- 3. Part II : the liberal attack upon utopianism -- 4. The return of politics : the EDL in northern England -- 5. The consumer riots of 2011 -- 6. What was Occupy? -- 7. Spain and the Indignados -- 8. The trouble with the Greeks -- 9. Conclusion.

In this short essay, I discuss two interrelated processes. First, I will address the marketization of British universities. Here, I claim that—despite appearing regularly in the public proclamations of government ministers and university leaders—the core ideals of the university no longer play a significant role in Britain's higher education sector and rarely intrude upon the working lives of British academics. The university's traditional telos was tied to the pursuit of truth and the expansion of human knowledge. However, only vague traces of the university's grand ideals can now be found throughout large expanses of Britain's university system. These traces take a ghostly form: their substance appropriated, these ghosts attempt but are unable to exhort an influence upon unfolding social reality (as originally discussed in Derrida 2006). Only flickering representations of the university's grand ideals remain. In their true form, these ideals are for the most part consigned to the realm of memory, and with every passing year seem at ever-greater risk of being forgotten completely.

Winlow and Hall argue that the only way to resurrect leftist politics is to begin from the beginning again. They identify the root causes of its maladies, describe how new cultural obsessions displaced core unifying principles, and outline how a new reincarnation of the left can win in the 21st century.

An impassioned and controversial new book from two leading sociologists in the field of social exclusion. They argue that social exclusion is not simply seen in ghettos or sink estates, but also in exclusive gated housing developments, the vacuous non-places of the shopping mall, the deadening reality of low-level service work, and in the depressing uniformity of our political parties

Criminology needs to rethink the problem of crime and re-engage its audience with strident theoretical analysis and powerful empirical data. In this book some of the world's most talented and polemical critical criminologists come together to offer new ideas and new avenues for analysis. The book contains chapters that address a broad range of issues central to 21st-century critical criminology.

Introduction: the need for "new directions" in criminological theory / Steve Hall and Simon Winlow -- Epistemological and political reflections -- Criminological knowledge : doing critique, doing politics / Pat Carlen -- Political economy and criminology : the return of the repressed / Robert Reiner -- Critical criminology, critical theory and social harm / Majid Yar -- The current condition of criminological theory in North America / Walter S. DeKeseredy -- Criminological theory, culture, and the subject -- The biological and the social in criminological theory / Tim Owen -- From social order to the personal subject : a major reversal / Michel Wieviorka -- The discourse on "race" in criminological theory / Colin Webster -- Using cultural geography to think differently about space and crime / Keith J. Hayward -- Consumer culture and the meaning of the urban riots in England / Steve Hall -- Censure, culture, and political economy : beyond the death of deviance debate / Colin Sumner -- Criminological theory, and violence -- Psychosocial perspectives : men, madness, and violence / David W. Jones -- 'All that is sacred is profaned' : towards a theory of subjective violence / Simon Winlow -- Late capitalism, vulnerable populations, and violent predatory crime / David Wilson -- Crime and criminological theory in the global age -- Outline of a criminology of drift / Jeff Ferrell -- 'It was never about the money' : market society, organized crime and UK criminology / Dick Hobbs -- After the crisis : new directions in theorising corporate and white-collar crime / Kate Burdis and Steve Tombs -- Crimes against reality : parapolitics, simulation, power crime / Eric Wilson -- Global terrorism, risk and the state / Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate