Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration
Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration
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Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility. The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other country in the world. A disproportionate number of these prisoners are people of color, and, today, a black man has a greater chance of going to prison than to college. The United States is the only Western democracy to retain the death penalty, even after decades of scholarship, statistics, and even legal decisions have depicted a deeply flawed system structured by racism and class oppression. Motivated by a conviction that mass incarceration and state execution are among the most important ethical and political problems of our time, the chapters critique, and envision, alternatives to the injustices of the U.S. prison system, with recourse to deconstruction, phenomenology, critical race theory, feminism, queer theory, and disability studies. The resulting collection contributes to a growing intellectual and political resistance to the apparent inevitability of incarceration and state execution as responses to crime and to social inequalities. It addresses both philosophers and activists who seek intellectual resources to contest the injustices of punishment in the United States.
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Front Matter
- Introduction: Death and Other Penalties
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Legacies of Slavery
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Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition
Brady Heiner
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From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration
James A. Manos
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Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell “Maroon” Shoatz
Russell “Maroon” Shoatz andLisa Guenther
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Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition
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Death Penalties
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In Reality—From the Row
Derrick Quintero
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U.S. Racism and Derrida’s Theologico-Political Sovereignty
Geoffrey Adelsberg
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Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making “Good” Death a “Good” Penalty
Kelly Oliver
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Death Penalty “Abolition” in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security
Andrew Dilts
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On the Inviolability of Human Life
Julia Kristeva
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In Reality—From the Row
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Rethinking Power and Responsibility
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Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis
Benjamin S. Yost
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Prisons and Palliative Politics
Ami Harbin
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Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants
Matt S. Whitt
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Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security
Andrea Smith
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Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference
Sarah Tyson
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Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis
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Isolation and Resistance
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Statement on Solitary Confinement
Abu Ali Abdur’Rahman
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The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space
Adrian Switzer
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Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry
Shokoufeh Sakhi
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Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture
Liat Ben-Moshe and others
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Statement on Solitary Confinement
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End Matter
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