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Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we
communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. Digital Lives in
the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life as digital
infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging
work with personal time and space, increasing the power of
financial institutions, and enhancing state and corporate
surveillance capacities. This nuanced exploration engages with a
wide range of issues: the conditions of migrant work in Singapore,
the question of digital debt in Toronto, the rise and fall of
illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York. In
the process, it reveals the profound connections between digital
technologies and the social life of global cities.
From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in
Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its
oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a
geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social
relations-including property, work, gender, and race-enacted across
various landscapes of American life. Prisons, Brett Story shows,
are more than just buildings of incarceration bound to cycles of
crime and punishment. Instead, she investigates the production of
carceral power at a range of sites, from buses to coalfields and
from blighted cities to urban financial hubs, to demonstrate how
the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially
grounded in racial capitalism. Story's critically acclaimed film
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same research that
informs this book. In both, Story takes an expansive view of what
constitutes contemporary carceral space, interrogating the ways in
which racial capitalism is reproduced and for which police
technologies of containment and control are employed. By framing
the prison as a set of social relations, Prison Land forces us to
confront the production of new carceral forms that go well beyond
the prison system. In doing so, it profoundly undermines both
conventional ideas of prisons as logical responses to the problem
of crime and attachment to punishment as the relevant measure of a
transformed criminal justice system.
From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in
Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its
oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison Land offers a
geographic excavation of the prison as a set of social
relations—including property, work, gender, and race—enacted
across various landscapes of American life. Prisons, Brett Story
shows, are more than just buildings of incarceration bound to
cycles of crime and punishment. Instead, she investigates the
production of carceral power at a range of sites, from buses to
coalfields and from blighted cities to urban financial hubs, to
demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically
and materially grounded in racial capitalism. Story’s critically
acclaimed film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is based on the same
research that informs this book. In both, Story takes an expansive
view of what constitutes contemporary carceral space, interrogating
the ways in which racial capitalism is reproduced and for which
police technologies of containment and control are employed. By
framing the prison as a set of social relations, Prison Land forces
us to confront the production of new carceral forms that go well
beyond the prison system. In doing so, it profoundly undermines
both conventional ideas of prisons as logical responses to the
problem of crime and attachment to punishment as the relevant
measure of a transformed criminal justice system.Â
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