Prison Capital (eBook)

Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs (Autor)

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2023
392 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7512-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding "e;crime."e; However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms.

Autor

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is assistant professor of geography and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.11.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones, 3 maps, 2 graphs, 2 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: abandonment of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina • abolition democracy • abolition geography • Angola • Austerity • black geographies • Black Radical Tradition • #Blacktranslivesmatter • broken windows policing • Community Organizing • Community Policing • conditions of confinement • Early Release • federal court orders • French Quarter • Hurricane Katrina • jail expansion • Law and Order • Louisiana • mass criminalization • Mass Incarceration • Neoliberal governance • New Orleans • New Orleans Police Department • orleans parish prison • pardons • parole • petro capitalism • police abolition • Police brutality • police violence • prison abolition • prison expansion • racial capitalism • racial liberalism • the carceral state • the politics of scale • Tourism
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7512-9 / 1469675129
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7512-1 / 9781469675121