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Solitary confinement : social death and its afterlives /
"Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A Critical Phenomenology of Solitary Confinement
- I. The Early U.S. Penitentiary System: 1. An Experiment in Living Death; 2. Person, World, and Other: A Husserlian Critique of Solitary Confinement; 3. The Racialization of Criminality and the Criminalization of Race: From the Plantation to the Prison Farm
- II. The Modern Penitentiary: 4. From Thought Reform to Behavior Modification; 5. Living Relationality: Merleau-Ponty's Critical Phenomenological Account of Behavior; 6. Beyond Dehumanization: A Posthumanist Critique of Intensive Confinement
- III. Supermax Prisons: 7. Supermax Confinement and the Exhaustion of Space; 8. Dead Time: Heidegger, Levinas, and the Temporality of Supermax Confinement; 9. From Accountability to Responsibility: A Levinasian Critique of Supermax Rhetoric
- Conclusion.