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From Anthropoliteia- Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Anthropology of Police April 12, 2012I’m sure I’m not the only one on this blog who’s been trying to think of a way to approach the whole Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman fiasco. Like a lot of scholarship, it’s just so hard to figure out what to add to the constant shit-storm of a media frenzy. But in my Police & Society [...]
- Following up on the British “riots”: Jonathan Simon on GTC September 7, 2011In the spirit of continuing our discussion of the British “riots”, Jonathan Simon has an interesting post that I think echoes many of the things that came up in our own discussion. Here’s one particularly cogent nut he offers up in describing the importation of American criminal justice techniques to Britain over the past decade: [...]
- Some thoughts on the London “riots”: Foucault’s genealogy of neoliberalism and “police as a public service” August 12, 2011I have to say I resisted writing this post. I have a visceral distaste for academic discursive hermeneutics performed from afar–this is partly why I’m an ethnographer, after all– and, that’s even more the case when trying to write au courant journalistically However, despite having absolutely no ethnographic expertise among British p […]
- Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Anthropology of Police April 12, 2012
- Cites I Like
- Conceptualizing 'Justice' in Detectives' Decision MakingInternational Journal of the Sociology of Law, Vol. 29, No. 2. (June 2001), pp. 113-125, doi:10.1006/ijsl.2001.0145‘Justice’ is commonly defined as rightfulness or fairness, in a wide range of contexts. What constitutes ‘justice’ in detectives' decision making in criminal investigations can begin to be explored only after one is able to place certain va […]M Corsianos
- Responding to officers’ gendered experiences through community policing and improving police accountability to citizensContemporary Justice Review, Vol. 14, No. 1. (8 February 2011), pp. 7-20, doi:10.1080/10282580.2011.541074This paper sets out to evaluate the potential for community policing (CP) to produce changes in gender equality in police agencies. To that end, the author evaluates if tenets of CP can create the necessary organizational and ideological changes required […]Marilyn Corsianos
- French Film and the New World of Work: From the Iron to the Glass CageModern & Contemporary France, Vol. 19, No. 4. (1 November 2011), pp. 427-442, doi:10.1080/09639489.2011.610159Looking at some of the most important work-related French films of recent years, this article sets out to do three things. It begins by analysing how the films narrate the exit from Fordism and the accompanying transition from the old disciplinar […]Martin O'Shaughnessy
- Configuring Security and JusticeEuropean Journal of Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 4. (1 October 2005), pp. 379-406, doi:10.1177/1477370805056055Surveys of public opinion conducted at different times in Canada and in the UK show that many more respondents believe in the criminal courts than in the police for controlling crime. The implications of this perceived gap in the crime control efficienc […]Clifford Shearing
- Police Studies Past and Present: A Reaction to the Articles Presented by Thomas Feltes, Larry T. Hoover, Peter K. Manning, and Kam WongPolice Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1. (1 March 2005), pp. 44-56, doi:10.1177/1098611104267326Jean-Paul BrodeurJean-Paul Brodeur
- Conceptualizing 'Justice' in Detectives' Decision Making
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Dissonant Soundtracks: what would be on the top 10?
Part of my interest in movie scores, as a few of you will know, is that I think of ethnographic writing, or composition, in terms of movie soundtracks… an insight that only starts the conversation, in that there are so many ways to score a film.
In light of the recent hullabaloo over the use of music in the new The Watchmen movie, and of my own re-discovery of both Wicker Park soundtracks, I’ve been thinking about the ways soundtracks can be sometimes overly dissonant with the movies themselves: there can be bad movies with good soundtracks, bad soundtracks for good movies, and instances where music and movie just don’t “fit”.
Maybe we can use this “bad” examples to think about the ethnographic composition. So I guess I’m asking: what would be on your top 10 list of “dissonant” movie soundtracks, and why? What, if anything, can we learn from this “dissonance”?
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