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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Heath PearsonPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9781478026921ISBN 10: 1478026928 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 08 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Social Life to the Side 1 I. Domination 1. Old Man Tilley & the Land 15 2. Big Tim & Mrs. Taylor 23 3. The Chief & Bigfoot 31 4. Jon and the Glittery Crow 41 5. Carl & Waking Bakery 50 6. The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf 70 Conveyance 1 70 II. Resistance 7. Ms. Reid & Her Boy 77 8. Ten & Two: How a Civil Rights Organization Fights Police Work 83 9. Mr. Cantale & the Community 90 10. Fred, Ken & Intensive Supervision 101 11. Ruthie at Lunch 113 12. Seymour Green & Political Party(ing) 120 Conveyance II 129 III. To-the-Side 13. Fred & the Declaration of Independence 135 14. Herc & Prison on the Outside 139 15. The Lawyers and the Amish Market 152 16. The Spot Is an Alternative Space 160 17. Henrietta & Annie: Forty-Five Minutes from Life 173 18. Shakes & the Pace of Connection 180 Conveyance III 188 Epilogue 191 Appendix I. Local History of Confinement with Archival Pictures 195 Appendix II. Demographic Details of People in Vignettes 203 Appendix III. Hand-Drawn Pictographs of Arguments Sketched Prior to Writing the Book 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 221 Index 223Reviews“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 * Author InformationHeath Pearson is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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