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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Tanya Golash-Boza
Structural Racism, Criminalization, and Pathways to Deportation for Dominican and Jamaican Men in the US Structural racism—in the form of heavy policing, residential segregation, and limited social services and labor opportunities—combined with changes in immigration laws in 1996 and the rise of immigration policing in the early twenty-first century has shaped the incorporation patterns of […]
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 […]
Lisa Guenther
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, […]
Jordan T. Camp
The Bombs Explode at Home: Policing, Prisons, and Permanent War In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King observed: “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home. The security we profess to seek in foreign ventures we will lose in our decaying cities.” His words resonated amidst widespread social protest against Cold War policies designed to contain communism […]
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 & […]
Beenash Jafri
COMMENTARY Intellectuals Outside the Academy: Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Steven Salaita, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs These conversations with independent academics Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Steven Salaita, and Leanne Simpson were inspired by the following questions: How do we make sense of intellectual work that happens outside of the chokehold of academic institutions? Is it possible to […]
Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell
Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion This article analyzes the conditions, and political significance, of Detroit’s Great Rebellion in 1967. We first discuss the pre- and postwar political economy in Detroit. Second, we analyze the state of technology and automation at the plants and its relationship to the class struggle. Third, we address the uniquely […]
Colin Samson
The Idea of Progress, Industrialization, and the Replacement of Indigenous Peoples: The Muskrat Falls Megadam Boondoggle This essay examines the continuing currency of the idea of progress to justify the state and corporate appropriation of Indigenous peoples’ lands and the diminution of their rights. Focusing upon the Innu peoples of the Labrador-Quebec peninsula and the […]
Review Symposium: Executing Freedom, by Daniel LaChance
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States, by Daniel LaChance Contributors: Lisa Miller, Jonathan Simon, Paul Kaplan, Mona Lynch, Patricia Ewick & Daniel LaChance FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase)
Vincenzo Ruggiero
COMMENTARY The Economic Field and the End of Mass Incarceration In a recent special issue of Social Justice (Vol. 42-2), a series of critical contributions examine recent developments in North American penal systems, offering hypotheses around the apparent end of mass incarceration. This commentary adopts a materialistic perspective, taking as a starting point the work […]
Asafa Jalata
The Oromo Movement: The Effects of State Terrorism and Globalization in Oromia and Ethiopia This essay critically explores the dialectical relationships between the Oromo national movement and the consequences of state terrorism and globalization in Oromia and Ethiopia. On one side, the Oromo people are struggling to empower themselves and gain control on their economic […]
Katja Weber & Allison Stanford
Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State One of the most pressing challenges Myanmar confronts is the mistreatment of the Rohingya in Rakhine state. Although Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy’s landslide victory in November 2015 has given reason for cautious optimism, a multistage process of reconciliation between […]