The Colonialism of Incarceration

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Incarceration

Notes

ideologically driven, yet demonstrably dysfunctional “tough on crime” policies

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centrality of colonialism to the origins, scope, scale, and legitimation techniques of carceral power in North America

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“Aboriginal women are thus more routinely placed into tighter security settings despite the fact that their criminal history has no predictive value for whether they are genuinely a risk to other inmates or staff.”

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carceral mutation and expansion is explainable principally as a political strategy

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maintain a system of state violence, racialized hierarchy, and, as I will argue, continuous colonial reterritorialization

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The horizontal spread of carceral governmentality thus exceeds its limited institutional manifestation in the prison itself

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no causal explanation, however complex and nuanced, can satisfy our need for a normative critique

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Assertions that the logic of war and that of social pacification can still be effectively disentangled are belied by our reality.

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viewed from the vantage point of settler colonialism and indigenous critique, there is nothing new about this permeability

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depoliticize this ongoing material violence

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while capital and military technology is increasingly deterritorialized and fluid, it is only so through the reassertion of rigidity, fixity and territorial segmentation for certain populations

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“the foundational ideas of current correctional philosophy”—namely, punitive power and risk management—are “incompatible with Aboriginal cultures, law and tradition.”

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