Carceral Capitalism
$32.55
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2018
Summary
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration- the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and pl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635900026 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1635900026 |
| Author: | Jackie Wang |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series |
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Critics Review
Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism is arguably one of the most wide-ranging, critical, and theoretically nuanced examinations of the political economy of the carceral state in the USA to date.
—Socialist ProjectJackie Wang’s sharp and deeply felt account of US capitalism’s reliance on predatory extraction from its poorest communities was partly inspired by her brother’s incarceration, and is one of the most convincing attempts to thread together the multiple analytical strands of race, class, and finance capitalism I’ve read.
—Hannah Black, BookforumAbout The Author
Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster and PhD student at Harvard University. She is the author of a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, as well as a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb.
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