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Matthew P. Unger
Matthew P. Unger is an assistant professor in sociology and anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. His work encompasses the hermeneutics of criminal accusation, colonial legal imaginaries, sound studies and ethnography/participant observation within the extreme metal community. He examines how predominant metaphors and symbols structure aesthetic, sonic and legal imaginaries. His continuing projects focus on accusation and governance, nature and law, and Paul Ricoeur’s thought on symbols of fault. He is the author of Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetics of Extreme Metal Music (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He is co-editor of Accusation: Creating Criminals (UBC Press, 2016).