'Social Nature:' Political Economy, Science, and Law in the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaye Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Nature

scholarly journals The social nature of serial murder: The intersection of gender and modernity

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Louise Wattis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Murder ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Serial Killing

The literature on the aetiology of serial killing has benefited from analyses which offer an alternative perspective to individual/psychological approaches and consider serial murder as a sociological phenomenon. The main argument brought to bear within this body of work identifies the socio-economic and cultural conditions of modernity as enabling and legitimating the motivations and actions of the serial killer. This article interrogates this work from the standpoint of a gendered reading of modernity. Using the Yorkshire Ripper case, it emphasizes how in addition to the political economy, gender relations and masculinity shape the dynamics of serial murder and its representation.

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