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ANN STEWART, Debating Gender Justice in India

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Published date01 June 1995
DOI10.1177/096466399500400210
Date01 June 1995
Subject MatterArticles
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Europe to secure amendments to the Social Chapter as the basis for a European Union law
establishing minimum common rights to strike.
COLIN HAY, Mobilization through Interpellation: James Bulger, Juvenzle Crime and the
Construction of a Moral Panic
On 12 February 1993, two-year-old James Bulger wandered away from his mother in the
Strand shopping centre in Bootle near Liverpool, England. He was subsequently
abducted. As his mother anxiously scoured the precinct, security cameras on another
floor filmed ’little James’ following two elder boys towards the exit ’on his grim walk to
death’ (Daily Express, 25 November 1993). Two days later his bruised, battered and
severed body was found on a railway line over two miles away. Two ten-year-old boys
were
charged and subsequently convicted with his abduction and murder. In this article I
consider the peculiar significance and resonances of the Bulger case, and the ways in which
the video footage of the abduction of James Bulger has come to act as a point of
condensation for wider social anxieties. I reflect upon the role of the media in the
recruiting of subjects - through interpellation - as subjects to, and participants tn moral
panics. This process of ’mobilization through interpellation’ is demonstrated through a
detailed interrogation of the rhetorical strategies, textual practices and linguistic devices
deployed by the tabloid media in the narration of this contemporary moral panic.
LESLIE J. MORAN, Violence and the Law: The Case of Sado-Masochism
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