Ghosts of other stories: A synthesis of hauntology, crime and space

Fiddler, Michael

doi:10.1177/1741659018788399

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“…The "vivid racial nightmares" of Southern whites, haunted by fears of slave insurrection, reverberates in modern policing (Hadden 2001: 138). The specter of racial terror haunts cities like Charlottesville, whose streets are alive with the ghosts of destroyed Black neighborhoods and the intergenerational trauma of racial violence (Fiddler 2018). An historical reckoning is necessary to exorcise those ghosts as we continue to imagine and conceive of a world without police.…”

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“Cops and the Klan”: Police Disavowal of Risk and Minimization of Threat from the Far-Right

Castle

2020

Crit Crim

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Critical scholars argue that contemporary policing practices reproduce colonial logics through the maintenance of racial and economic inequality. In this article, I extend the framing of policing as a colonial project grounded in white supremacy to an analysis of police responses to white power mobilization during a heightened period of activity and violence (2015-2017). Borrowing from Perry and Scrivens (2018), I identify the two most common police responses-"disavowal of risk" and "minimization of threat"-in the official investigations into the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. Based on an analysis of newspaper reports from across the United States during the two-year period since then, I found that local and federal law enforcement consistently trivialized the presence of white power groups in the community, elevated the potential threat from protestors, concentrated intelligence efforts on activists, and provided differential protection to white supremacists.

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“Cops and the Klan”: Police Disavowal of Risk and Minimization of Threat from the Far-Right

Castle

2020

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“…The cracking of the whip, the choking induced by the hang-man's noose or the dull grinding sound of the treadmill, all denote the sound of suffering and the sound of punishment; sonic reminders of human cruelty. The haunting sounds of suffering and the subsequent trauma mean Guyana's prisons were -and still are -spaces in distress, which feel differently than spaces that have not experienced trauma (Coddington and Micieli-Voutsinas, 2017;Fiddler, 2019). Although the sounds of the contemporary prison may differ, they also resonate with the ghostly sounds of the past, as the prison becomes a crypt, built by violence, that contain the spectral sounds of coloniality and its sounds of suffering and control.…”

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The Gaols of Guyana: Hauntology and Trauma in the soundscape of Prison

Ayres

Kerrigan

2020

LWPS

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Using Hauntology, this paper illustrates how the supposed demise of a socio-political and economic system – colonialism – still impacts on and has something to offer contemporary political analysis in Guyana’s gaols. Drawing on Fiddler’s spatio-hauntology alongside the work of Derrida and Gordon this paper shows how hauntology provides an alternative theoretical framework to look at the intergenerational transmission of trauma, which can be traced back to colonialism and slavery. It acknowledges the impact structural violence has on the collective imaginary and how this – consciously and unconsciously – shapes the psychosocial material underpinning contemporary Guyanese identities, desires, experiences, social action, and systems of punishment which includes prisons – its buildings, space, regimes, processes, sounds, laws and rationale. Guyana’s prisons contain phantoms of the past. Only by acknowledging Guyana’s ghosts and the phantasm of past trauma is it that we can begin to understand contemporary Guyana and Guyanese society, which includes their jails.

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“…Sometimes the identity of an ancestor or relative is not known or maybe their existence has not even been suspected; sometimes this search is for a known and named person who is lost in the records. Fiddler (2018) suggests that both spectres and phantoms reveal themselves through breaks or deformations in language and text. Fiddler was writing about literary and cultural texts, but much family history research relies on textual sources, both on and offline.…”

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The Ghost of the ‘Y’: Paternal DNA, Haunting and Genealogy

Scholar

2019

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Based on a personal family history experience, in this paper, I consider the way in which genealogical DNA testing is revealing family secrets, in particular paternity secrets, which would previously have remained unknown via ‘traditional’ methods of genealogical research. Reasons for the displacement of these invisible fathers from the records are discussed, and the power of genealogical DNA testing to bring them into focus is examined. Such discoveries may disrupt and unsettle, causing people to think differently about the fathers and grandfathers with whom they have grown up or have believed to be part of their personal histories and, for some people, may challenge their sense of identity. Beyond personal identity issues, in this paper, I draw upon ideas about ‘ghost-work’ to suggest that these experiences have some of the features of hauntings and that the ghostly fathers who break through may speak to us about social realities and structures, beyond the confines of linear time.

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Ghosts of other stories: A synthesis of hauntology, crime and space

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

“Cops and the Klan”: Police Disavowal of Risk and Minimization of Threat from the Far-Right

“Cops and the Klan”: Police Disavowal of Risk and Minimization of Threat from the Far-Right

The Gaols of Guyana: Hauntology and Trauma in the soundscape of Prison

The Ghost of the ‘Y’: Paternal DNA, Haunting and Genealogy

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