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Cults --- Psychology and religion. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993. --- Psychology. --- Mt. Carmel --- the Davidians --- the Branch Davidians --- 1929-1987 --- the Davidian tradition --- cult --- moral panic --- the anticult movement --- the Waco confrontation --- child abuse --- Ranch Apocalypse --- Koresh --- the media --- public opinion --- apocalypticism --- religious marginality --- apocalyptic sect --- federal law enforcement --- sects and violence --- religious discourse --- religious freedom and social order

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In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war—they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to an era where crime and policing are ever more complicit, they offer a powerful meditation on the new forms of sovereignty, citizenship, class, race, law, and political economy of representation that have arisen. To do so, the Comaroffs draw on their vast knowledge of South Africa, especially, and its struggle to build a democracy founded on the rule of law out of the wreckage of long years of violence and oppression. There they explore everything from the fascination with the supernatural in policing to the extreme measures people take to prevent home invasion, drawing illuminating comparisons to the United States and United Kingdom. Going beyond South Africa, they offer a global criminal anthropology that attests to criminality as the constitutive fact of contemporary life, the vernacular by which politics are conducted, moral panics voiced, and populations ruled. The result is a disturbing but necessary portrait of the modern era, one that asks critical new questions about how we see ourselves, how we think about morality, and how we are going to proceed as a global society.

Crime. --- Police administration. --- crime, sovereignty, knowledge, policing, petty theft, scams, embezzlement, banks, financial institutions, corporations, greed, success, ambition, war, modernity, criminality, capital, state power, governance, complicity, race, ethnicity, systemic racism, bias, south africa, democracy, citizenship, class, law, representation, political economy, violence, oppression, discrimination, segregation, white supremacy, moral panic, politics, history, nonfiction, police, administration, legal system, criminal justice.

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO