We are joined by our good comrade, Max, this week in the library to tackle a work of the brilliant Marxist sociologist and Big Dawg of Cultural Studies, Stuart Hall. Comrade Max joins us to lead a discussion on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Hall from 1978 which is terrifyingly relevant to the political landscape of racism and neoliberal capitalism today.

We discuss a wide range of ideas and concepts from Hall's work including moral panics, signification and political discourse, immigration, race and racism, policing, theories of the State, and the ongoing process of economic crises and their cultural effects.

This one is HAWT FIRE.

Further Readings/References

• Stuart Hall
• Policing the Crisis Summary
• The New Left Review Period
• Judith Butler
• Stuart Hall: In Conversations Podcast
• Cultural Studies
• Professor Ben Carrington
• "What is this 'Black' in Black Popular Culture" Article Summary
• John Berger's Ways of Seeing BBC Series
• Paul Gilroy
• Moral panic
• Stop-and-Frisk in New York
• Deviancy Amplification Spiral
• Lumpenproletariat
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Review of Zizek's Against the Double Blackmail
• Antonio Gramsci
• Silent Majority
• Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
• Intersectionality
• Combahee River Collective

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