Carceral Worlds

Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is author of Ubuntu Strategies: Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture (2016) and co-editor of Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present: Spaces, Mobilities, Aesthetics (2016).Jennifer Turner is the leader of the Crime and Carcerality Research Group at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. She is author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (2017) and The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration (2020).Julienne Weegels is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-organizer of the Global Prisons Research Network and convenor of the Anthropology of Confinement network.

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.

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsChapter 1 Introduction: Carceral worlds nowHanneke Stuit, Jennifer Turner and Julienne WeegelsPART 1: LEGACIESChapter 2 The biopolitics of colonial carcerality: Colonialism and its afterlife in prison historiography of GuyanaDylan Kerrigan, Kristy Warren, Kellie Moss, Mellissa Ifill, Tammy Ayres and Clare AndersonChapter 3 ‘This side of the bridge’: The connection between modernist knowledge production and carceral city management technologies in São Paulo, BrazilKarina BiondiChapter 4 The labyrinth beneath the surface: Carceral and necropolitical conditions in By Night in Chile and ‘The Colonel’s Son’ by Roberto BolañoJosh WeeksCarceral reverberationsJulienne WeegelsPART 2: TEXTURESChapter 5 Lockdowns and curfews: Metaphoric prisons during COVID-19 in Germany, France and the UKMonika FludernikChapter 6 Star rovers: Rap escapes and nostalgic narrations in a Milanese social housing neighbourhoodPaolo GrassiChapter 7 Rethinking disciplinary and control society through a temporal lens: Imprisonment-seeking among rough sleepers in GermanyLuisa T. SchneiderFailing systemsJennifer TurnerPART 3: FUTURESChapter 8 Digital carceral bodies and abolitionist dreams: Ethnographic poetry and the electronic record systems in the New York City jails Ariel LudwigChapter 9 Carceral adaptability and the global detention hotelAndrew Burridge and Jonathan DarlingChapter 10 Colonizing the future: Assembling a Gulf Carceral Urban WorldBruce E. StanleyPastoral powerHanneke StuitPART 4: PROVOCATIONSChapter 11 Abolishing carceral geography?Chris Philo and Anna SchlieheChapter 12 Carcerality, fire and the politics of entrapmentSarah NuttallIndex