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The New Literature of Violence and the Sociological Tradition

Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 203D (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC29 Deviance and Social Control (host committee)

Language: English

In the age of late modernity, it is possible to distinguish various narratives about forms of violence, drug dealing, and violent crime in contemporary societies. This is the political context where the phenomena of violence acquire new contours. Violence is a microphysics of power, i.e. a network of powers that permeates all social relations, marking the interactions among groups and classes.

This session will analyse the figuration of the following social dimensions as contained in several contemporary novels: the relationship between crime and power elites; the connection between crime and businesses, politics, and forms of corruption; and finally, the cognitive mapping of the microphysics of violence.

The purpose is to explain what could be seen as a new genre of fiction whose novelty can be perceived through the transformation of its narrative structure, albeit incorporating some trends of the classic detective novel and the roman noir.

This type of novel presents some classic characters:  the agents of social control (mostly policemen), the victims, the culprit, as well as a multitude of urban professionals, the unemployed, and street people. In this sense, these literary works exhibit a specific rationality of late modernity, which includes the cognitive mapping of the microphysics of violence and cruelty.  The analysis of these aspects of contemporary literary production will illustrate the existence of representations of contemporary society based on forms of violence as a social pattern, or what we call the “the novel of violence”.

Session Organizers:
Jose-Vicente TAVARES-DOS-SANTOS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Enio PASSIANI, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Arnaud SALES, University of Montreal, Canada, Michel MISSE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vincenzo RUGGIERO, University of Middlesex, United Kingdom and Arpita MITRA, KIIT Univesity, India
Oral Presentations
Dislocation and Disconnection in Post-1970s Crime Fiction
Sarah MOORE, University of Bath, United Kingdom
The Anti-Racist Turn in the Struggles Against Violence in Brazil
Jacqueline SINHORETTO, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Police Practices and Social Identity: The Case of the Polices in the Federal District
Maria Stela GROSSI PORTO, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Insecurity, Fear and Cruelty in Contemporary Urban Settings
Cesar BARREIRA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARA, Brazil
I Have Been Working a LONG Time. the Justification of Violence By Italian Police
Vincenzo SCALIA, UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER, United Kingdom
Challenging Mafia’s Territorial Power. Operating Among Market and Culture to Sanction Cosa Nostra, a Case Study on Addiopizzo
Patrizio LODETTI, university of milan, Italy; Gianmaria PESSINA, university of milan, Italy
Racial Profiling in the Literature: A Comprehensive Review
Sergio ADORNO, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Letícia SIMÕES GOMES, University of São Paulo, Brazil