Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals

ISBN-13: 9781138639874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str.

Karen Morin

Opis

Carceral Spaces and Animals develops a framework for exploring embodied, geographical, legal, and ethical resonances across human and nonhuman carceral spaces. This book examines the close linkages that can be found across prisoner and animal carcerality and captivity, focusing on their corresponding and parallel disciplinary regimes and structures of violence. Case studies juxtapose four main types of institutions: death row and slaughterhouse; laboratory testing on incarcerated humans and animals, solitary confinement, and sites of exploited labor. The shared structural conditions and inequalities that span species boundaries at these sites are explored theoretically and conceptually, looking at emotional and psychological strain, the geographies of these carceral spaces, legal mechanisms (or the lack of) and the ethical questions that arise when we consider the potential for these sites to become locations of genocide and/or extinction of particular populations.

Spis treści

Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction. Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals Chapter 2: Death Row Across Species: The Execution Chamber and the Slaughterhouse Chapter 3: The Prison As/ And Laboratory: Sites of Trans-species Bio-Testing Chapter 4: Laboring Prisoners, Laboring Animals Chapter 5: Wildspace: The Cage, The Supermax, and the Zoo Chapter 6: Afterword: Reflections on Trans-Species Rights and Ethics References Index

O autorze

Karen M. Morin is Associate Provost and Professor of Geography at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. Her interests span the history of geographical thought in North America, 19th-century travel writing, postcolonial geographies, carceral geography, and critical animal studies. She is author of Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (2008) and Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860–1890 (2011). She is co-editor of Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith (2007) and Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past (2015).