Contesting Carceral Logic; Towards Abolitionist Futures

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: penal abolitionism as a challenge to carceral logic PART I: The harms of carceral logic: people and places 1 Prison provokes people into being more aggressive, hypersexualized, and prone to crime 2 If I weren’t white I’d be dead 3 Reader 4 Carceral other and severing of people, place and land: redefining the politics of abolition through an anti-colonial framework 5 The lawlessness of law: outlaw nation, settler colonialism, and a possessive investment in whiteness 6 Not behind bars: the rippling of carceral habitus and corrective violence on the family and community life of prison guards PART II: Creating anti-carceral knowledge 7 Start 8 The only advice I got is “Stay out of trouble” 9 Designed to bury you in a mental grave 10 The courtroom 11 Generating abolitionist affect : decarceral feminist methodologies and the closure of Holloway Prison 12 “There is no justice, there is just us!” Towards a postcolonial feminist critique of policing using the example of racial profiling in Europe 13 Against penal humanism: a Foucaudian critique PART III: Case studies pointing to radical alternatives 14 Feet on the ground 15 The system is designed for me to fail 16 Incarceration as the worst possible treatment for mental illness 17 The rhetoric of dehumanization: Japanese American concentration camps and the US criminalizing system 18 RAP’s significance to the formation of the British abolitionist movement 19 The struggle over the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre : challenging neutralization techniques, fighting state inertia PART IV: Resisting carceral logic 20 Something from here 21 Disenthrall 22 Contesting the collateral damages of imprisonment from below 23 Land, race and state: situating the carceral state and the mass imprisonment of Māori in Aotearoa within the settler-colonial landscape 24 Extreme hazards Index