Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-63987-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. The linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality that are placed into conversation draw from a number of institutional domains, based on their form, operation, and effect. These include: the prison death row/ execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical and other products on incarcerated humans and captive animals; sites of exploited prisoner and animal labor; and the prison solitary confinement cell and the zoo cage. The relationships to which I draw attention across these sites are at once structural, operational, technological, legal, and experiential / embodied. The forms of violence that span species boundaries at these sites are all a part of ordinary, everyday, industrialized violence in the United States and elsewhere, and thus this ‘carceral comparison’ amongst them is appropriate and timely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morin, Karen M

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).