Prison Beds and Compensated Man-Days: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Carceral Neoliberalism The Trousdale Turner Correctional Center is a 2,600-bed private prison owned and operated by CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. It is located in Hartsville, Tennessee, on the former site of the Hartsville Nuclear Plant and PowerCom Industrial Center. In this paper, […]
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Melissa Archer Alvaré
Gentrification and Resistance: Racial Projects in the Neoliberal Order Gentrification amplifies the precarity of marginalized people of color and reproduces white supremacy as neighborhoods are redeveloped in accord with affluent actors’ interests. Representations of poor Black communities as blighted neighborhoods inhabited by dangerous criminals and welfare queens demonize residents and construct them as threatening to […]
Sarah Whetstone & Teresa Gowan
Carceral Rehab as Fuzzy Penality: Hybrid Technologies of Control in the New Temperance Crusade The steep escalation of mandatory drug rehabilitation since 1989 has incorporated “strong-arm” rehab as a central node of carceral control. This article draws on ethnographies of three Midwestern male residential rehab facilities that reflect three dominant treatment paradigms, which result in […]
Spencer Headworth & Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The Accused Poor Although allegations of client fraud in the SNAP and TANF programs sometimes lead to criminal charges, the foundational welfare fraud case is administrative: it pertains specifically to agency rules regulating participation in public assistance programs. This article compares the legal rights and statuses of people accused of administrative “paper” offenses with those […]
Vol. 45-1: Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State
Emancipatory Justice: Confronting the Carceral State edited by Michael Hallett This special issue of Social Justice expands previous editions’ explorations of emancipatory justice and incarceration. The issue begins with the premise that addressing structural violence is the greatest single challenge to establishing mechanisms of emancipatory justice. Looking beyond the prison walls, contributors identify areas in which new […]
Vol. 46-2/3 – Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s
Please note: This issue has not been published yet. You may purchase a digital copy for immediate download or pre-order a printed copy below (shipping in September 2020). Policing the Protest Cycle of the 2010s edited by Manuel Maroto, Ignacio González-Sánchez, and José A. Brandariz This special issue analyzes the cycle of protests that has swept […]
Vol. 48-2 – Neoliberalism in Higher Education
Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues [free pdf download] Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez Changing Higher Education in the United Kingdom: Examining Three Trends through a Neoliberal Lens Amy Perry […]
Vol. 48-3
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Entangling Intentionality: Reflections on Torture and Structure Ergün Cakal Carving the Terrain of Freedom: The Multidimensionality of Youth-Focused Abolition Geography Kaitlyn J. Selman Violent Symbiosis: The History of CCJ’s Role in Legitimizing Racialized Police Violence Ryan Phillips, Brian Pitman & Stephen T. Young “Oscar Did Not Die in Vain”: […]
Vol. 48-4
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Universal Basic Income, Social Justice, and Marginality: A Critical Evaluation Anthony J. Knowles Police as Supercitizens Brittany Arsiniega & Matthew Guariglia Crossing the Line(s): The School of the Americas, Radical Pedagogy, and Sacrificial Activism Ralph Armbruster Sandoval From Fledgling Network to the Creation of an Official Division of the […]