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Rousseau and Becker on the problem of recognition: A comparative analysis
This article identifies the main parallels that exist between Rousseau and Becker on recognition. Rousseau and Becker argue that people are motivated by a desire to achieve recognition from others. Their work explains how the craving for recognition contributes to the common good, but they also address the serious problems that can arise. Whilst the human striving for recognition is often beneficial for society, their work describes the devastating consequences that accompany this existential desire. The article begins by outlining their work on amour-propre (Rousseau) and heroism (Becker) before tracing the similarities and differences between their work in relation to restricting destructive forms of behaviour. The overall aim of this comparative analysis is to highlight the connections that exist between Rousseau and Becker and to show how Becker's insights concerning mortality awareness and heroism provide an important contribution to contemporary scholarship on self-worth and recognition.
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Going Underground: Excitement and Edgework in Violent Extremism
This paper explores the emotional reactions of violent extremists as they undertake various backstage performative acts. Deception and evasion tactics are sometimes implemented by violent extremists to avoid detection and protect their networks or plans. This demonstrates the agentic power of negative (background, missing, latent or hidden) phenomena in driving social change: actors can exercise resistance while apparently doing nothing. On the other hand, empirical research, although scant, demonstrates that alongside some of the traditional considerations around terrorism, there also needs to be reflection of the phenomenological foreground and the existential attractions that often govern peoples emotions. Building on the work of Simmel, we consider excitement to examine the increased existential attractiveness, fascination, and allure of social activities that are held out of reach. We argue that this could encourage people to engage in what Lyng describes as edgework, whereby members perform in highly dangerous, transgressive, and violent activities. This paper explores the fascination, mystery, and seduction of remaining undetected and aims to provide insights into the complex interplay between edgework, excitement, and violent extremism.
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Experiencing flow, enjoyment and risk in skydiving and climbing
This article brings together findings from two separate ethnographic studies that explore the motivations, behaviours and experiences of those who voluntarily engage in high-risk activities. Focusing on Csikszentmihalyi’s phenomenology of enjoyment, and taking a particular interest in the psychological and experiential aspects of action, the accounts of skydivers and climbers are presented and discussed in relation to each of the components Csikszentmihalyi has identified as necessary for providing a deep sense of enjoyment. The aim of the article is to show how the concept of flow provides a useful framework for understanding the attractions of engaging in high-risk pursuits that are often overlooked. This contributes to an understanding of particular rural settings, specifically mountains and flying sites, as a backdrop for meaningful action.
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IDENTITY, IMPRISONMENT, AND NARRATIVE CONFIGURATION
This article addresses the role of self-narratives for coping with the laws of captivity. By focusing on how confinement can disrupt narrative coherence, the intention is to examine the role of self-narratives for interpreting previous events and anticipating future actions. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary research on self-identity, imprisonment, and offender narratives, this article highlights how narrative reconstruction can alter our desires, commitments, behavior, beliefs, and values. By (re)telling a story about our lives, it is possible to reinterpret existing circumstances and make new connections between our past, present, and future selves. Whereas research suggests the importance of narrative reconstruction for protecting against a sense of meaninglessness, this article shows how self-narratives have the potential to be empowering and divisive. The final part of the article examines how the narratives inmates construct about themselves and others can serve to legitimize violence against other prisoners.
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Transcendence, Symbolic Immortality and Evil
Ernest Becker's work addresses the implications that arise from being aware of our own mortality. Like Sartre, Becker recognises that human beings have the potential to transcend and look beyond their immediate situation, but his work also confronts the darker aspects of human existence that arise from our self-awareness. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of Becker's work and to show the potential of Becker's theory of evil to inform a number of contemporary debates in the social sciences. Although Becker's work directly examines why human beings can act so inhumanly towards one another, his theory is not altogether pessimistic. The paper concludes by arguing that Becker's theory intended to create new possibilities for living in more creative and humane world.
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Can One Paint Criminology?
[...]is the striated space (or coded space) of the law producing interruption or indeed resistance, or is sheer unformed chaos -there are no dividing lines in the figure on the left- engendering structure instead? Is the whirl of the self in the painting -a mix of blue, yellow, red and there's even a tiny little bit of white if you wish- is the self the source of the structured code on the right hand side of the painting? Aside from writing his philosophical works such as Being and Nothingness, Sartre famously wrote plays, novels and short stories to convey his philosophy.
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Short Editorial Introduction: Transcendence and Transgression
Issue Title: Special issue on Transcendence and Transgression. Guest editors: Ronnie Lippens and James Hardie-Bick
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Transnational and Comparative Criminology
This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and postgradate students.
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Introduction
Any criminology worthy of the name should contain a comparative dimension. The contents of cultural meanings that are loaded into the subject of criminology are too variable for it to be otherwise. It is fair to say that most of the important points made by leading scholars of criminology are comparative in nature. It is just that the basis of comparison is often relatively narrow. For example, the hyphen that both separates and binds the phrase 'Anglo-American criminology' implies an obvious basis for comparison, although it remains within 'Anglophonia'. British criminology invites comparison between England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, even if the differences are too often disregarded by criminologists there. Federal systems such as Australia, Canada and the United States offer a good basis for comparative work and European criminology provides ample room for comparison, with added richness due to wide linguistic and national variability. At a real stretch comparative criminology would go for total global reach and try to touch upon matters of criminological concern on all the major populated continents of the world. Such an undertaking is rare indeed.
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