Christophe D. Ringer

Necropolitics

The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is part of the religious meaning of America that fuels the problem of mass incarceration. The author develops a religious interpretation of the significance of these images to America's political economy the produces the very problems we punish as a society.

Produktdetails

• Religion and Race
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9781793626813
• ISBN-10: 1793626812
• Artikelnr.: 63594699

Autorenporträt

Christophe D. Ringer is assistant professor of theological ethics and society at Chicago Theological Seminary.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politics of Death in the Arche of the American Experience
Chapter 2: The Necropolitics of Social Death and Statecraft
Chapter 3: Beyond the Death-Bound-Subject
Chapter 4: Necropolitics and Juridical Power
Chapter 5: The Eschatological Production of Mass Incarceration
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author