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Lloyd, Jenna M. - Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) - 9780820344126 - V9780820344126
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Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

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Description for Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Loyd, Jenna M.; Mitchelson, Matt; Burridge, Andrew. Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVP1; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820344126
SKU
V9780820344126
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-11

About Lloyd, Jenna M.
Jenna M. Loyd (Editor) JENNA M. LOYD is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 and Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States (coauthored with Alison Mountz). ... Read more

Reviews for Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
Dares to undertake a task of political emergency that is here, now, and deeply historical . . . The thinkers in this collection catalyze a series of debates, conversations, and imaginative possibilities that stretch and vitally distend the existing horizons and languages of abolitionist, human/immigrant rights, prison reform, and U.S. border activisms. A mind-boggling array of critical positions, all informed ... Read more

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