Mass Incarceration and COVID-19: The intersection of American policy failures
Today, American prison systems stand at the intersection of multiple public health disasters. Mass incarceration has led to millions of people living …
In the Journals – Police Abolition
Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) by The Metropolitan Museum of Art via PICRYL Welcome back to In the Journals! This …
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center …
In the Journals – Confinement and Mental Health
Cour des agitées by Amand Gautier via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that …
In the Journals – Prisons and Pandemics
Prisoners’ Round by Vincent Van Gogh via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! My name is Ally, I am a graduate student …
Release G.N. Saibaba
Many times mentioned on this blog, it is now more relevant than ever to write and support comrade Sai Baba whose conditions, …
The Sobraj Challenge
Well, I know, this is not such an appropriate headline and a bit cheeky to add it, but I find this article …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
I Choose to Look Above the Prison Walls…
From razor wire to emotional barriers, women serving life sentences contend with walls of all kinds—physical, rhetorical, and of their own making. …
Penal-izing poverty, drug retail and migrants – Louie Wacquant
Page 278 of Loic (Louie) Wacquant’s 2008 Book “Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality”. (Polity).
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method 11 May 2018, Nottingham Contemporary, UK This one-day workshop brings together photographers, historians, criminologists and anyone …
Defoe on prisons 1698
Defoe, as a good Protestant, was of course keen to remedy the ‘torrent of vice’, ‘venal crime’ and ‘Epidemick Distemper’ that afflicted …
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 21: Maurice Magaña on Seeing Race and Citizenship in the U.S. through Ava Duvernay’s 13th
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical …
#Review: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger’s relationship with “America’s political prisoners” (xii) has been personal from the very beginning. At age sixteen and out of historical …
Fieldnotes on the Gendered Labor of Prison Visitation
The editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome a special guest post from Orisanmi Burton as part of our series of anthropological reports From the …
#REVIEW – The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners
States resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a pattern: a …
In the Journals – May 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. As many …
Open Access Articles from the American Anthropological Association
The AAA has decided to feature the “most-discussed” articles (as measured by Altmetrics) from Anthrosource by making them temporarily open-access. Among these …
Indefinite detention for advocating jihadi violence
The Sydney Morning Herald contacted me for a comment on former judge Anthony Whealy’s suggestion to imprison terrorists and terrorist advocates indefinitely till proven …
Tuberculosis in Prisons
Last year I wrote a blog post for the TB CRE covering a story about Ravindra Patil who died of tuberculosis …