The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (Humanities) [UPDATE]

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The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2393-9001)

Volume 2, Issue 1 | March/April 2015

FOCUS: Crime/Criminal/Criminality

"The term crime denotes an unlawful act punishable by a state…in modern criminal law (however, it does not) have any simple and universally accepted definition…" (Wikipedia)

Criminal: n. A person who has committed a crime. Adj. Informal. Disgraceful and regrettable. (Oxford English Dictionary)

It is at this point of monolithic and canonical definition of crime, criminal or criminalities that that we intend to present our interjection. Our present theoretical contention is not with the linguistic or judiciary denominators of crime that exist in isolation but with the very act of securely tying down such ideological factors while decreeing the 'identity' of the criminal or the crime itself along conditions of political, sociological, material or other motivations. The criminal has not remained a stable 'being' over different historical periods, as a stagnant signifier who could be used as a standard regardless of contemporary conditions—there has been shifting allegiances to judiciary, criminality and related subjection in each period, constantly revisiting and evolving the idea of crime. The analogy useful here could be of wartime acts of bravery being condemned in the post-war scenario as wartime atrocities or war crimes; similarly, what was chivalric in the medieval ages could be considered as barbaric under present circumstances, and consequently, criminal. It is necessary therefore to explore and attempt to interpret the ethics and aesthetics of crime and criminality. Whether it is the criminalisation of homosexuality, 'war crimes', or the constitution of hate crimes, religious atrocities and genocides and other acts of state-sponsored terror, it is a necessary act to obtain a perspective in this issue that is interdisciplinary in its 'unfolding'.

We seek submissions that explore the fluidity and the dynamics of this concept of crime/criminal/criminality from theoretical or interdisciplinary vantage points that transgress into the transgressive. The issue seeks submissions along, but not limited to, the following areas:

The philosophy of crime/criminality
The psychology of crime
A sociology of crime
The politics of crime and criminality
Historicising criminality/How the idea of the crime and criminal changes
Who/what is (a) criminal?
Crime and literature
Crime in popular culture
Criminalising gender, sex and sexuality
Crime and violence/non-violence/anti-violence
The deviant/outsider/other as criminal, or vice-versa
Decolonising the criminal
Crime and globalisation
Crime and the city: urban spaces and urban legends
The act of detection
The submissions must not be dedicated to a cursory reading of the phenomenon of crime but rather attempt to unravel the phenomenology of crime. Philosophical or theoretical approaches are welcomed as means of interpreting the concept of crime through newer avenues.

FEATURE: Open

Only select few papers exploring theoretical or philosophical spaces and interdisciplinary in nature would be accepted for publication in this section.

Deadline of Submission: 20 February, 2015

For enquiries and submission please mail to: apollonianjournal@gmail.com
Or to the Editors- Subashish Bhattacharjee: subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com
& Saikat Guha: mmm.saikatguha@gmail.com
It is mandatory to send (bcc/cc) articles to both the Editors.

Find 'Submission Guidelines' here: http://theapollonian.in/submission-guidelines

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