Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins
Voicing the Less Dead
Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins
Voicing the Less Dead
Description
When vulnerable populations are rendered socially invisible, decisions about which cases are amplified and which are neglected reveal deeper hierarchies of value.
Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead draws on criminal cases, news coverage, and media analysis from around the world to examine the thousands of missing and murdered individuals from marginalized communities whose stories often go untold. Contributors invite readers to question how these victims are perceived in comparison to others and how law enforcement, government institutions, and media organizations shape those perceptions. Grounded in Steven Egger's concept of the “less dead,” the volume offers an interdisciplinary, global perspective on the systematic erasure of marginalized groups while also demonstrating pathways for making their stories visible. In doing so, the book challenges the conventions of true crime and underscores why whose lives are mourned-and whose are ignored-matters profoundly for justice, memory, and public accountability.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Visible But Voiceless: The Canonical Five Victims of Jack the Ripper and Liminal Spaces of Victimhood by Rebecca Frost
Chapter 2: Suicides That Matter: National News Media Construction of Youth Bullycides by Robert A. Brooks and Jeffrey W. Cohen
Chapter 3: “From the Wrong Side of the Tracks”: Ethan Brown's Murder in The Bayou and the Invisibilization of the Jeff Davis 8 by Marissa A. Zerangue
Chapter 4: We're Missing the Point: The Impossible Victim, the Less Dead, and the Search for Jermain Charlo by Alisha Grech
Chapter 5: The Grim Sleeper Films and the Humanization of the Women of South Central L.A. by Francesca Borrione
Chapter 6: Tell Me Where You Are-This Happens Everywhere: Representations of Femicide in Natalia Beristáin's 2022 Film Noise by Heather J. Macpherson
Chapter 7: Transgressions of the Less Dead: Necropolitics of the Subaltern in South Indian Cinema by Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K Suresh
Chapter 8: Pre-trial Treatment of Girl Children by the Police: Three Cases from Pakistan by Abdullah Khoso
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | 03 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781978794511 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 1 table |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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