Episode 1 / Why Ultra Realism? ft. Simon Winlow

Welcome to the first episode of Ultra-Real Criminology, the 21st Century Criminology Podcast. Please subscribe and follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with new episodes and ultra-realist criminological material. / urealists
In this episode, we focus on the question 'Why Ultra-Realism?' Why do we need a new theoretical framework in criminology? To help us answer this question, we're joined by Professor Simon Winlow, one of the founding fathers of Ultra-Realist criminological theory. Simon talks about his own journey to developing ultra-realism, and discusses a number of topics, ranging from the ontological and epistemological foundations of ultra-realism, why criminology must return to the issue of criminal motivations, to the proper place of activism in the social sciences and the state of contemporary leftist politics both within and beyond the university.
Simon Winlow is the author of numerous books and articles, some links to which you can find below:
Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and New Masculinities (Routledge, 2001) www.routledge....
Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture (Berg, 2006) www.amazon.co....
Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism (Routledge, 2008) www.routledge....
Re-thinking Social Exclusion: The End of the Social? (Sage, 2013)
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'Trauma, Guilt, and the Unconscious: Some Theoretical Notes on Violent Subjectivity' The Sociological Review (2014) journals.sagep...
Revitalising Criminological Theory: Toward a New Ultra-Realism (Routledge, 2015) www.routledge....
The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working Class Politics (Policy Press, 2017) policy.bristol...
The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again (Policy Press, 2022) policy.bristol...

[@newchannelname3395]

Fascinating chat! I would be very interested to know if Simon considers ultra-realism to function in part as a critique of "the sociological imagination"? As in, are the links between personal troubles and public issues that CW Mills traces bound to be probabilistic rather than causal?

[@brendanmarsh4523]

Great stuff lads, and a pleasure to listen to Simon.

[@DavidWilson-yl2tw]

Excellent

[@samloutalbotmusic]

This is great -

[@markbrain1302]

Zizek and Bhaskar, depth ontology fused with Psychoanalysis. I would like to suggest, Archer's morphogenis, but then again i would prefer not to.