| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword: life and other responsibilities -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death and Other Penalties -- Legacies of Slavery -- Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition -- From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration -- Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell "Maroon" Shoatz -- Death Penalties -- In Reality- From the Row -- U.S. Racism and Derrida's Theologico-Political Sovereignty -- Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making "Good" Death a "Good" Penalty -- Death Penalty "Abolition" in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security -- On the Inviolability of Human Life -- Rethinking Power and Responsibility -- Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis -- Prisons and Palliative Politics -- Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants -- Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security -- Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference -- Isolation and Resistance -- Statement on Solitary Confinement -- The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space -- Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry -- Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture |
| Summary |
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility. This work takes shape against a backdrop of disturbing trends: The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black man has a greater chance of going to |
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Abolition |
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Convict Lease System |
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Critical Prison Studies |
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Death Penalty |
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Mass Incarceration |
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Punishment |
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Racism |
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Resistance |
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Slavery |
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Supermax |
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capital punishment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States
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Imprisonment -- United States
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Punishment -- United States
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Capital punishment
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Imprisonment
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Punishment
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adelsberg, Geoffrey, editor.
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Guenther, Lisa, 1971- editor.
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Zeman, Scott C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780823265329 |
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0823265323 |
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9780823265336 |
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0823265331 |
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