Carceral Worlds

This diverse, multifaceted collection affirms the richness of contemporary carceral studies bringing important insights and provocations from social science and the humanities to bear on a range of literal and literary carceral worlds and imaginaries. Significantly, running throughout is an insistent current of abolitionist thought that has the potential to enable and energize the necessary ongoing pushback against carceral power. The collection is forceful but pragmatic, ambitious but attritional and makes a timely contribution to our collective understandings of the detrimental, deliberate dynamics associated with the desire to secure and the will to confine. * Andrew M. Jefferson, DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture *
‘Carceral Worlds’, brings together a diverse and fascinating collection of essays and reflections that challenge, inform, and advance the theorization of the carceral and the varied legacies with which it is articulated. * Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham *
Carceral Worlds investigates how the concept of the carceral and its bordering holds and are held. Attentive to assaults on geographic liberatory practices and the resonances of carceral states beyond the prison, nowhere in this conceptual work do the authors forget on whose bodies the hold lands. Collectively, the authors offer a profound meditation on how the carceral bleeds its logics across tight epistemic and institutional walls, how the punitive polices a global ordering of spatial distinctions and temporal inequities, and ultimately, how the carceral is a predatory form of life that sustains racial capitalism. * Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary University of London *