Resistance to Mass Incarceration – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable proposes to discuss past and contemporary forms of resistance to the prison, with particular reference to mass incarceration in the United States. The roundtable will focus on the global expansion of technologies of detention beyond the prison, particularly in the field of immigration control, as well as on the practices of resistance deployed by the communities most affected by these developments. The discussion will also focus on further strategies of resistance with an aim toward decarceration and prison abolition.

Sub Unit

• Area VIII: Roundtables

Chair

• Jen Rushforth, San Jose State University

Discussant

• Alessandro De Giorgi, San Jose State University

Participants

• Eduardo Bautista Duran, San Jose State University

• Ernest Chavez, San Jose State University