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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe
d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or
GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and
1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to
facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions
in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and
instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to
identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to
produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality.
To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from
them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here
explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for
prison activism today.
At the start of the twenty-first century, 1 percent of the U.S.
population is behind bars. An additional 3 percent is on parole or
probation. In all but two states, incarcerated felons cannot vote,
and in three states felon disenfranchisement is for life. More than
5 million adult Americans cannot vote because of a felony-class
criminal conviction, meaning that more than 2 percent of otherwise
eligible voters are stripped of their political rights. Nationally,
fully a third of the disenfranchised are African American,
effectively disenfranchising 8 percent of all African Americans in
the United States. In Alabama, Kentucky, and Florida, one in every
five adult African Americans cannot vote.
Punishment and Inclusion gives a theoretical and historical account
of this pernicious practice of felon disenfranchisement, drawing
widely on early modern political philosophy, continental and
postcolonial political thought, critical race theory, feminist
philosophy, disability theory, critical legal studies, and archival
research into state constitutional conventions. It demonstrates
that the history of felon disenfranchisement, rooted in postslavery
restrictions on suffrage and the contemporaneous emergence of the
modern "American" penal system, reveals the deep connections
between two political institutions often thought to be separate,
showing the work of membership done by the criminal punishment
system and the work of punishment done by the electoral franchise.
Felon disenfranchisement is a symptom of the resolved tension that
persists in democratic politics between membership and punishment.
This book shows how this tension is managed via the persistence of
white supremacy in contemporary regimes of punishment and
governance.
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe
d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or
GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and
1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to
facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions
in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and
instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to
identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to
produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality.
To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from
them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here
explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for
prison activism today.
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