Active Intolerance (eBook)

Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition

Perry Zurn, Andrew Dilts (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XVIII, 297 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-51067-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Formed in the wake of May 1968, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) was a radical resistance movement active in France in the early 1970's. Theorist Michel Foucault was heavily involved. This book collects interdisciplinary essays that explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

Ali Abu Abdur'Rahman, REACH Coalition, USA Steve Champion (Adisa Kamara), California, USA Natalie Cisneros, Seattle University, USA Stephen Dillon, Hampshire College, USA Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University, USA Bernard Harcourt, Columbia Law School, USA Marcelo Hoffman, Independent Researcher Lynne Huffer, Emory University, USA Colin Koopman, University of Oregon, USA Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota, USA Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond, USA Donald Middlebrooks, REACH Coalition, USA Derrick Quintero, REACH Coalition, USA Dylan Rodriguez, UC Riverside, USA Falguni Sheth, Emory University, USA Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University, USA Shannon Winnubst, Ohio State University, USA

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

Autor

Perry Zurn is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, USA.   Andrew Dilts is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsForeword; Bernard HarcourtAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsActive Intolerance: An Introduction; Perry Zurn and Andrew DiltsPART I: HISTORY: THE GIP AND FOUCAULT IN CONTEXT1. The Abolition of Philosophy; Ladelle McWhorter2. The Untimely Speech of the GIP Counter-Archive; Lynne Huffer3. Conduct and Power: Foucault ' 's Methodological Expansions in 1971; Colin Koopman4. Work and Failure: Assessing the Prisons Information Group; Perry ZurnIntolerable 1: Abu Ali Abdur ' 'RahmanPART II: BODY: RESISTANCE AND THE POLITICS OF CARE5. Breaking the Conditioning: The Relevance of the Prisons Information Group; Steve Champion (Adisa Kamara)6. Between Discipline and Care-giving: Changing Prison Population Demographics and Possibilities for Self-Transformation; Dianna Taylor7. Unruliness without Rioting: Hunger Strikes in Contemporary Politics; Falguni ShethIntolerable 2: Derrick QuinteroPART III: VOICE: PRISONERS AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL8. Disrupted Foucault: Los Angeles ' ' Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) and the Obsolescence of White Academic Raciality; Dylan Rodríguez9. Investigations from Marx to Foucault; Marcelo Hoffman10. The GIP as a Neoliberal Intervention: Trafficking in Illegible Concepts; Shannon Winnubst11. The Disordering of Discourse: Voice and Authority in the GIP; Nancy LuxonIntolerable 3: Donald MiddlebrooksPART IV: PRESENT: THE PRISON AND ITS FUTURE(S)12. Beyond Guilt and Innocence: The Creaturely Politics of Prisoner Resistance Movements; Lisa Guenther13. Resisting ' 'Massive Elimination ' ': Foucault, Immigration, and the GIP; Natalie Cisneros14. ' 'Can They Ever Escape? ' ': Foucault, Black Feminism, and the Intimacy of Abolition; Stephen DillonNotes on ContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 297 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Care • critical prison studies • Demography • detention • Expansion • Feminism • France • History • Immigration • Incarceration • Marx • Michel Foucault • Migration • Nation • Philosophy • Police • political theory • Politics • prison abolition • prison activism • the GIP • the Prisons Information Group • Transformation
• ISBN-10: 1-137-51067-6 / 1137510676
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-51067-9 / 9781137510679