A Carceral Ecology

Author : Ryan C. Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520381815
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Carceral Ecology written by Ryan C. Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world’s southernmost prison. Ushuaia’s radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and timber economy became central to ideas about labor, rehabilitation, and resource management. Mining the records of penologists, naturalists, and inmates, Ryan C. Edwards shows how discipline was tied to forest management, but also how inmates gained situated geographical knowledge and reframed debates on the regeneration of the land and the self. Bringing a new imperative to global prison studies, Edwards asks us to rethink the role of the environment in carceral practices as well as the impact of incarceration on the natural world.

Author : Hans Toch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living in Prison written by Hans Toch and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the relationship that links environments to the persons who must live and work in them. By presenting the maximum security prison as a living environment, and illustrating the personal impact prisons have on individual inmates, Hans Toch, who is a psychologist with many years of research experience in "real life" settings, shows us how men adapt to stressful stimuli. He also provides a blueprint for reform--a practical solution to the problem of making prisons, and other settings, more effective and more humane.

Author : Anthony J. Nocella II
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137508221
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline written by Anthony J. Nocella II and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth. This book is for anyone who wants to truly understand the school to prison pipeline as well as those interested in peace, social justice, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.

Author : Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938038
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Gulag written by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.

Author : Clarence Jefferson Hall
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613767862
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Prison in the Woods written by Clarence Jefferson Hall and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have known the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York as a site of industrial production, a place to heal from disease, and a sprawling outdoor playground that must be preserved in its wild state. Less well known, however, has been the area's role in hosting a network of state and federal prisons. A Prison in the Woods traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s through the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected. Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. reveals that the introduction of correctional facilities—especially in the last three decades of the twentieth century—unearthed long-standing conflicts over the proper uses of Adirondack nature, particularly since these sites have contributed to deforestation, pollution, and habitat decline, even as they've provided jobs and spurred economic growth. Additionally, prison plans have challenged individuals' commitment to environmental protection, tested the strength of environmental regulations, endangered environmental and public health, and exposed tensions around race, class, place, and belonging in the isolated prison towns of America's largest state park.

Author : Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941332665
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths to Prison written by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States.

Author : Lori Gruen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843581
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carceral Logics written by Lori Gruen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We incarcerate humans as a form of punishment and we cage animals for food, entertainment, and research. Are there lessons one site of carcerality can teach us about the other?

Author : Dominique Moran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317169786
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carceral Geography written by Dominique Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ’punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the ’carceral’ as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.

Author : Abolition Collective
Publisher : Abolition: Journal of Insurgen
ISBN 13 : 9781942173083
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abolishing Carceral Society written by Abolition Collective and published by Abolition: Journal of Insurgen. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bold voices and inspiring visions of today's revolutionary abolitionist movement--a creative range of approaches to dismantling interlocking institutions of oppression and transforming the world.

Author : Clarence Jefferson Hall
Publisher : Environmental History of the N
ISBN 13 : 9781625345356
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Prison in the Woods written by Clarence Jefferson Hall and published by Environmental History of the N. This book was released on 2020 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have known the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York as a site of industrial production, a place to heal from disease, and a sprawling outdoor playground that must be preserved in its wild state. Less well known, however, has been the area's role in hosting a network of state and federal prisons. A Prison in the Woods traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s through the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected. Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. reveals that the introduction of correctional facilities -- especially in the last three decades of the twentieth century -- unearthed long-standing conflicts over the proper uses of Adirondack nature, particularly since these sites have contributed to deforestation, pollution, and habitat decline, even as they've provided jobs and spurred economic growth. Additionally, prison plans have challenged individuals' commitment to environmental protection, tested the strength of environmental regulations, endangered environmental and public health, and exposed tensions around race, class, place, and belonging in the isolated prison towns of America's largest state park.