Despite ongoing demands to reform, defund, and abolish current policing and imprisonment practices, the U.S. justice system continues to massively curtail the lives of millions of people, in particular of Populations of Color. The umbrella term 'confinement' captures how the U.S. Justice system – via policing, arrests, its court system, prisons, detention centers as well as parole and probation regimes – fosters group-differentiated immobility, surveillance, and "premature death" (Ruth Gilmore). In this class, we will historically situate current policing and incarceration practices and investigate the U.S. prison apparatus in all its complexities. Part of the class will also be to examine artistic/cultural expressions that engage with the U.S. prison system as well as different forms of activism and resistance to it.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2025 gefunden:
