Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
By Alison Mountz, Amy Gottlieb, Andrew Burridge, Anne Bonds, Bob Libal, Christopher Stenken, Cynthia Bejarano, Elizabeth Vargas, Gael Guevara, Harsha Walia, Jenna M. Loyd, Jodie Lawston, Joseph Nevins, Joshua M. Price, Julianne Hing, Laura McTighe, Laur | Publisher: University of Georgia Press
About the book
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.Working at a range of geographic scales and locations, contributors examine concrete and ideological connections among prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification, and militarization. They challenge the idea that prisons and borders create safety, security, and order, showing that they can be forms of coercive mobility that separate loved ones, disempower communities, and increase shared harms of poverty. Walls and cages can also fortify wealth and power inequalities, racism, and gender and sexual oppression.As governments increasingly rely on criminalization and violent measures of exclusion and containment, strategies for achieving change are essential. Beyond Walls and Cages develops abolitionist, no borders, and decolonial analyses and methods for social change, showing how seemingly disconnected forms of state violence are interconnected. Creating a more just and free world—whether in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, the Morocco-Spain region, South Africa, Montana, or Philadelphia—requires that people who are most affected become central to building alternatives to global crosscurrents of criminalization and militarization.
Editions of Beyond Walls and Cages
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780820344119
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780820344126
- EBook
- ISBN 9780820344928
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The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.Working at a range of geographic scales and locations, contributors examine concrete and ideological connections among prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification, and militarization. They challenge the idea that prisons and borders create safety, security, and order, showing that they can be forms of coercive mobility that separate loved ones, disempower communities, and increase shared harms of poverty. Walls and cages can also fortify wealth and power inequalities, racism, and gender and sexual oppression.As governments increasingly rely on criminalization and violent measures of exclusion and containment, strategies for achieving change are essential. Beyond Walls and Cages develops abolitionist, no borders, and decolonial analyses and methods for social change, showing how seemingly disconnected forms of state violence are interconnected. Creating a more just and free world—whether in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, the Morocco-Spain region, South Africa, Montana, or Philadelphia—requires that people who are most affected become central to building alternatives to global crosscurrents of criminalization and militarization.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Beyond Walls and Cages about?
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.Working at a range of geographic scales and locations, contributors examine concrete and ideological connections among prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification, and militarization. They challenge the idea that prisons and borders create safety, security, and order, showing that they can be forms of coercive mobility that separate loved ones, disempower communities, and increase shared harms of poverty. Walls and cages can also fortify wealth and power inequalities, racism, and gender and sexual oppression.As governments increasingly rely on criminalization and violent measures of exclusion and containment, strategies for achieving change are essential. Beyond Walls and Cages develops abolitionist, no borders, and decolonial analyses and methods for social change, showing how seemingly disconnected forms of state violence are interconnected. Creating a more just and free world—whether in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, the Morocco-Spain region, South Africa, Montana, or Philadelphia—requires that people who are most affected become central to building alternatives to global crosscurrents of criminalization and militarization.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Beyond Walls and Cages?
Society and Social Sciences > Politics and government > International relations
Where can I read a sample of Beyond Walls and Cages?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780820344119
How long is Beyond Walls and Cages and how many pages does it have?
Beyond Walls and Cages has 344 page(s)
Is Beyond Walls and Cages part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Beyond Walls and Cages?
Alison Mountz, Amy Gottlieb, Andrew Burridge, Anne Bonds, Bob Libal, Christopher Stenken, Cynthia Bejarano, Elizabeth Vargas, Gael Guevara, Harsha Walia, Jenna M. Loyd, Jodie Lawston, Joseph Nevins, Joshua M. Price, Julianne Hing, Laura McTighe, Laur
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Beyond Walls and Cages is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780820344119) and paperback(ISBN 9780820344126) and ebook(ISBN 9780820344928)
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