Heath Pearson

Life beside Bars

Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town

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Produktbeschreibung

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey-a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail. Pearson places today's prisons within the region's longer history of Lenape genocide, chattel slavery, Japanese American labor camps, and other forms of racialized punishment and carceral control. From this vantage, prisons appear not as the structural fix for the region's failed political economy but as a continuation of the carceral principle that has always sustained it. This ongoing use of confinement, though, is merely the backdrop. Through ethnographic vignettes written in story form, Pearson offers an alternative history of the unruly and unexpected ways that people resist, get by, make money, find joy, and build radical social life in the small, unseen spaces beside large-scale confinement. As such, Pearson enriches our understanding of daily life in and around prisons-in any American community-while providing a kaleidoscope of possibilities for theorizing and organizing alternative paths.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781478026921
• ISBN-10: 1478026928
• Artikelnr.: 70010853

Autorenporträt

Heath Pearson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Social Life to the Side  1
I. Domination
1. Old Man Tilley & the Land  15
2. Big Tim & Mrs. Taylor  23
3. The Chief & Bigfoot  31
4. Jon and the Glittery Crow  41
5. Carl & Waking Bakery  50
6. The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf  70
Conveyance 1  70
II. Resistance
7. Ms. Reid & Her Boy  77
8. Ten & Two: How a Civil Rights Organization Fights Police Work  83
9. Mr. Cantale & the Community  90
10. Fred, Ken & Intensive Supervision  101
11. Ruthie at Lunch  113
12. Seymour Green & Political Party(ing)  120
Conveyance II  129
III. To-the-Side
13. Fred & the Declaration of Independence  135
14. Herc & Prison on the Outside  139
15. The Lawyers and the Amish Market  152
16. The Spot Is an Alternative Space  160
17. Henrietta & Annie: Forty-Five Minutes from Life  173
18. Shakes & the Pace of Connection  180
Conveyance III  188
Epilogue  191
Appendix I. Local History of Confinement with Archival Pictures  195
Appendix II. Demographic Details of People in Vignettes  203
Appendix III. Hand-Drawn Pictographs of Arguments Sketched Prior to Writing
the Book  205
Notes  211
Bibliography  221
Index  223