FORUM Brett Story, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (documentary, 87 min., 2016) Contributors: Brett Story, Jack Norton, Jordan T. Camp, & Annie Spencer Edited and moderated by Christina Heatherton Introduced by Kanishka Goonewardena FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •
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J. Gregg Robinson
Political Cynicism and the Foreclosure Crisis Growth in American political cynicism concerns both scholars and political commentators. This increased distrust in political institutions, many argue, has negatively affected our democracy in general and political participation in particular. Yet, the relationship between cynicism and political activism is more complex than many have claimed. The author examines […]
Judah Schept, Tyler Wall, and Avi Brisman
Building, Staffing and Insulating: An Architecture of Criminological Complicity in the School-to-Prison Pipeline The concept of the school-to-prison pipeline illuminates and dissects the continuum between education and incarceration. Most often, the concept is deployed to call attention to the criminalization of youth of color in urban schools and the mechanisms that facilitate their entry into […]
Justin Turner
Being Young in the Age of Globalization: A Look at Recent Literature on Neoliberalism’s Effects on Youth This article presents new literature concerning recent trends involving the lived experiences of youth within a society seemingly focused on the axiomatic logics of neoliberalism. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement, youth have been involved in […]
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 […]
Review Symposium: Progressive Punishment, by Judah Schept
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion, by Judah Schept Contributors: Michelle Brown, Alessandro De Giorgi, Keramet Reiter & Judah Schept FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •
Simón E. Weffer, Dari Sylvester, James Mullooly, Alex Leigh Parnell, Rafael Maravilla, and Nicholas Lau
The Impacts of Foreclosure on Collective Efficacy and Civic Engagement: Findings from Two Central California Communities How has the foreclosure crisis and the neighborhood instability it produces affected residents’ sense of collective efficacy and civic engagement? Using 127 semi-structured interviews in two Central San Joaquin Valley communities, South Merced and Planada, we examine residents’ perceptions […]
Special issue: Foreclosure Crisis in the United States, Vol. 40-3
Edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Ellen Reese. This issue focuses on the various ways in which the real estate foreclosure crisis affected families and communities in the United States. The crisis, created by the contradictions of global financial capitalism, transformed many neighborhoods and communities into empty wastelands and was especially devastating to black and […]
Special issue: Latin America Revisited, Vol. 40-4
Edited by Edward McCaughan and Susanne Jonas. With articles by veteran observers and activists as well as up-and-coming scholars, this issue discusses the current state of Latin America, now two decades into the uneven transitions to democracy following an era of dictatorships and armed revolutionary conflicts. The issue’s first section analyzes the historical and ongoing […]
Vanesa Estrada Correa
Blueprint for the American Dream? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Presidential Remarks on Minority Homeownership This article examines presidential discourse on public policies affecting racial inequalities in homeownership from a critical race theory perspective. Using a critical discourse analysis framework to examine presidential remarks, press releases, and official reports, the author discusses how presidential discourse […]
Vol. 41-4: Youth under Control: Punishment and Reform in the Neoliberal State
This special issue critically analyzes the social and penal policies aimed at young people in the United States, focusing in particular on the punitive role played by schools, juvenile courts, and community-based programs.
Vol. 44-1: Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security
Ethnographic Explorations of Punishment and the Governance of Security edited by Robert Werth This special issue highlights the growth of ethnographic examinations of penal governance across multiple disciplines, emphasizing the possibilities and the potential blind spots of ethnography as a methodology for studying penality. By analyzing phenomena as varied as pre-trial incarceration, parole and reentry, female […]
Vol. 44-2/3: Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State
Neoliberal Confinements: Social Suffering in the Carceral State edited by Alessandro De Giorgi & Benjamin Fleury-Steiner This special issue aims to provide a cartography of some of the forms of social suffering experienced by marginalized and oppressed populations in the US carceral state. The contributors extend their gaze beyond the prison and its ancillary institutions […]
Vol. 44-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Idea of Progress, Industrialization, and the Replacement of Indigenous Peoples: The Muskrat Falls Megadam Boondoggle Colin Samson Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State Katja Weber & […]
Vol. 49-3 – Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety
Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety: Toward a Conceptualization of Black Safety edited by Enkeshi Thom El-Amin, Shaneda Destine & Michelle Brown TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction [free pdf download] Beyond Racialized Carceral Safety: Toward a Conceptualization of Black Safety Enkeshi Thom El-Amin, Shaneda Destine & Michelle Brown Black Safety: Threats of Gentrification to Practices of Freedom in […]