Show Up for Your dead: For a Feminist Convict Criminological Analysis in COVID Capitalism, Rural Potter's Fields and Cemeteries

• In Event: Convict Criminology Panel #2: Feminist Convict Criminology for the Future

Abstract

The words of conjured images of “Asylum Cemetery”, or “Poor Farm Cemetery”', or “Potters Field”' describe the sites of the “other” place where the bodies of social outcasts, indigent, incarcerated, and elderly were interned in. These gravesites are treated as a gendered social “resting place” for some. Potters Fields show the visibility of an invisible engendered space-place and the reasons for feminist convict criminology interest in this realm. During COVID capitalism, feminist exploration into taphology will bring focus on the ideas of contemporary and past relationships regarding indigent incarcerated burial rights, post-body contemplation, and attitudes.

Author

• Lucas Alan Dietsche, Adams State University