Heath Pearson

Life beside Bars

Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town

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Produktbeschreibung

Heath Pearson examines the social life of a rural town in New Jersey that is home to five prisons and outlines how the residents negotiate the demands of a region that has always depended on human confinement for survival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031147
• ISBN-10: 147803114X
• Artikelnr.: 70011785

Autorenporträt

Heath Pearson is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University.

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