Life Beside Bars

Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvHeath Pearson

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In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey-a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail. Pearson places today’s prisons within the region’s longer history of Lenape genocide, chattel slavery, Japanese American labor camps, and other forms of racialized punishment and carceral control. From this vantage, prisons appear not as the structural fix for the region’s failed political economy but as a continuation of the carceral principle that has always sustained it. This ongoing use of confinement, though, is merely the backdrop. Through ethnographic vignettes written in story form, Pearson offers an alternative history of the unruly and unexpected ways that people resist, get by, make money, find joy, and build radical social life in the small, unseen spaces beside large-scale confinement. As such, Pearson enriches our understanding of daily life in and around prisons-in any American community-while providing a kaleidoscope of possibilities for theorizing and organizing alternative paths.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-08
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478031147

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Preface ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction. Social Life to the Side 1I. Domination1. Old Man Tilley & the Land 152. Big Tim & Mrs. Taylor 233. The Chief & Bigfoot 314. Jon and the Glittery Crow 415. Carl & Waking Bakery 506. The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf 70Conveyance 1 70II. Resistance7. Ms. Reid & Her Boy 778. Ten & Two: How a Civil Rights Organization Fights Police Work 839. Mr. Cantale & the Community 9010. Fred, Ken & Intensive Supervision 10111. Ruthie at Lunch 11312. Seymour Green & Political Party(ing) 120Conveyance II 129III. To-the-Side13. Fred & the Declaration of Independence 13514. Herc & Prison on the Outside 13915. The Lawyers and the Amish Market 15216. The Spot Is an Alternative Space 16017. Henrietta & Annie: Forty-Five Minutes from Life 17318. Shakes & the Pace of Connection 180Conveyance III 188Epilogue 191Appendix I. Local History of Confinement with Archival Pictures 195Appendix II. Demographic Details of People in Vignettes 203Appendix III. Hand-Drawn Pictographs of Arguments Sketched Prior to Writing the Book 205Notes 211Bibliography 221Index 223

“Heath Pearson’s ethnographic voice is tightly attuned to the politics of living, as he deliberately rejects and excises styles and conventions of liberal humanism as a force in tight collusion with capitalism. This is a major accomplishment in and of itself, while his theorization of prisons is powerful. The wild array of stories from characters of all kinds in this carefully crafted book makes a significant point; I learned something of how people live. The effect of this book is visceral.” - Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of (The Hundreds)