Full Description
Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead uses criminal cases, news stories, and media analysis from around the globe to reflect upon the thousands and thousands of missing and murdered individuals from marginalized communities. Contributors ask readers to consider: How do we see these human beings compared to others, and how are they viewed by law enforcement and government officials? These vulnerable populations are often rendered invisible, so how do the media decide what story is told to the public and which one is neglected? Drawing on Steven Egger's concept of the 'less dead,' this collection provides an interdisciplinary, global perspective on how vulnerable groups are erased and demonstrates ways their stories can be made visible.
Contents
Introduction by Francesca Borrione and Heather J. Macpherson
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
