Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America
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Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America
By (Author) Brett Story
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
26th March 2019
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Social and cultural anthropology
Human geography
365.973
Physical Properties
Hardback
232
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
Description
From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social relations-including property, work, gender, and race-enacted across various landscapes of America
Author Bio
Brett Story is a documentary filmmaker, geographer, and assistant professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University. Her award-winning film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same research that informs Prison Land.
