This symposium explores the ways in which world crime fiction exemplifies and interrogates the social contract idea. The symposium featured the following papers:

Andrew Pepper (Queen's University Belfast), "Crime Fiction and the Unravelling of the Social Contract: Generic Breakdown at the End of Days"

Barbara Bezzotti, (Monash University), "How the social contract has failed women"

Carlos Uxo (Monash University), "Maintaining the Revolutionary social contract: the role of Cuban television police shows"

Do stay around for the discussion time after the papers for the lively discussion time which lasts for an hour and includes questions from participants on three continents.

The seminar took place on Zoom on 28 September 2021, and was hosted by Sewart King (Monash University), as part of the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism".  

This seminar is an initiative of the Monash Crime Fiction Project and the Social Contract Research Network. For more information about the Monash Crime Fiction Project, please see here: https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/monash-crime-fiction-project 

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