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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Prison abolition"”.
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
… Angela Davis’s multifaceted critique of the prison industrial complex – focusing primarily on the tenets of racism, classism, and capitalism – and take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing her call for prison abolition by way of Giorgio Agamben’s radical adjustments to traditional …
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
<p>"Genealogies of resistance to incarceration: Abolition politics within de-institutionalization and anti- prison activism in the U.S." looks at two main sites in which abolition of "total institutions" is enacted. The first site is activism around penal and prison abolition. The second site is …
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Queering community : collective housing in Los Angeles
… one with historical ties to socialism, feminism, prison abolition, environmentalism and anti-racism. Similarly, a queer identity has emerged that challenges gender and sex norms, as well as assimilative gay, lesbian and bi-sexual identities. This thesis identifies a typological history of queer …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… on previous research, this dissertation applies prison abolition and critical race theories to youth incarceration to examine two constitutional questions: 1) Do the potentially permanent adverse neurological effects of trauma caused by non-therapeutic juvenile detention confirm that the practice …
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Resisting internalized oppression: Black women's perceptions of incarceration
… are the fastest growing population in American prisons (Roberts,2012). Black women's politicized racial consciousness becomes important as similarities are uncovered between chattel slavery (and other pre-civil rights anti-black racist institutions like Jim Crow segregation) and contemporary …
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… our political imaginations. Building from prison abolitionist frameworks and collectives like Critical Resistance and Octavia’s Brood, the paper utilizes discursive questioning, drawing, and acts of “political looking” to decode our visual world.</p> <p>Pitfalls are inevitable, ranging from …
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Networks of Solidarity in Prison Writing: Facilitation of Critical Penal Discourse through the Kingston Prison for Women's Tightwire Publication
From the 1960’s-1990’s, prisoners in both North America and abroad published interconnected journals through the Penal Press. Under this umbrella of publications, the women sentenced to the Kingston Prison for Women (P4W), the only federal penitentiary for female prisoners from 1934-2000, produced …
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Geographies of confinement : America's carceral bulwark, 1973-2022
… study examines two distinct planes along which prisons have become naturalized in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, paying special attention to the ways in which the carceral institution has been used to generate capital value. Focusing on museums and …