Crime and the Imaginary of Disaster, 2015 Post-Apocalyptic Fictions and the Crisis of Social Order

This study explores the 'imaginary of disaster' that appears in popular fictions about the apocalyptic breakdown of society. Focusing on representations of crime, law, violence, vengeance and justice, it argues that an exploration post-apocalyptic story-telling offer us valuable insights into social anxieties.

1. Situating the Apocalypse, Crime and Problem of Social Order 2. Law and Disorder in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape: Social Breakdown, Sovereign Power and the State of Emergency 3. Dangerous Others: 'Race' and Crime after the Apocalypse 4. Crime, Disaster and the Crisis of the Gender Order 5. The Utopian Apocalypse: Crime, Justice and Redemption

Majid Yar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hull, UK. He has researched and published widely in the areas of crime & deviance studies, media & popular culture, and social & criminological theory.