Simon Winlow

Biography

Simon Winlow is currently Professor of Criminology in the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology. He returned to Teesside in 2012 after spending 7 years at the University of York.

Research Interest

Social class, culture and identity;ethnography and qualitative research methodologies; working-class culture;consumerism and identity; youth identities; ‘social exclusion’, poverty andmarginality; criminal identities; criminal motivations; criminological theory;the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek; transcendental materialism; the politicalphilosophy of Alain Badiou; Lacanian psychoanalytic theory; psychosocial criminology;violence; masculinity; trauma; political protest; the sociology of leisure;social, economic, political and cultural change in Britain from 1945 to thepresent day; sociological, political and cultural theory; the sociology ofPierre Bourdieu; post-politics; various ‘realisms’ (esp. critical realism;capitalist realism; speculative realism; depressive realism; cynical realism;social realism; left realism; ultra-realism); the political Left in Britainsince the war; ideology; contemporary fascisms.