Carceral Worlds

Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is author of Ubuntu Strategies: Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture (2016) and co-editor of Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present: Spaces, Mobilities, Aesthetics (2016). Jennifer Turner is the leader of the Crime and Carcerality Research Group at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. She is author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (2017) and The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration (2020). Julienne Weegels is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-organizer of the Global Prisons Research Network and convenor of the Anthropology of Confinement network.

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List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: Carceral worlds now
Hanneke Stuit, Jennifer Turner and Julienne Weegels

PART 1: LEGACIES

Chapter 2 The biopolitics of colonial carcerality: Colonialism and its afterlife in prison historiography of Guyana
Dylan Kerrigan, Kristy Warren, Kellie Moss, Mellissa Ifill, Tammy Ayres and Clare Anderson

Chapter 3 ‘This side of the bridge’: The connection between modernist knowledge production and carceral city management technologies in São Paulo, Brazil
Karina Biondi

Chapter 4 The labyrinth beneath the surface: Carceral and necropolitical conditions in By Night in Chile and ‘The Colonel’s Son’ by Roberto Bolaño
Josh Weeks

Carceral reverberations
Julienne Weegels

PART 2: TEXTURES

Chapter 5 Lockdowns and curfews: Metaphoric prisons during COVID-19 in Germany, France and the UK
Monika Fludernik

Chapter 6 Star rovers: Rap escapes and nostalgic narrations in a Milanese social housing neighbourhood
Paolo Grassi

Chapter 7 Rethinking disciplinary and control society through a temporal lens: Imprisonment-seeking among rough sleepers in Germany
Luisa T. Schneider

Failing systems
Jennifer Turner

PART 3: FUTURES

Chapter 8 Digital carceral bodies and abolitionist dreams: Ethnographic poetry and the electronic record systems in the New York City jails
Ariel Ludwig

Chapter 9 Carceral adaptability and the global detention hotel
Andrew Burridge and Jonathan Darling

Chapter 10 Colonizing the future: Assembling a Gulf Carceral Urban World
Bruce E. Stanley

Pastoral power
Hanneke Stuit

PART 4: PROVOCATIONS

Chapter 11 Abolishing carceral geography?
Chris Philo and Anna Schliehe

Chapter 12 Carcerality, fire and the politics of entrapment
Sarah Nuttall

Index