Conclusion: Reflections on Capturing the Carceral

Schliehe, Anna; Moran, Dominique

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“…Feminist geographers have worked towards uncovering the gendered experiences of exclusion and resistance, and putting them at the heart of feminist carceral geography (Cassidy, 2019; Schliehe, 2017). Further, as Gill et al., (2016) note, increasing attention towards non-prison places in the study of carceralities has revealed that the means of controlling and dominating the problem populations in a society are inextricably linked to neoliberalism, in its quest for capital expansion at the expense of the vulnerable and marginalised.…”

Section: Geographies Of Carcerality and Resistance In The Surrogate H...mentioning

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“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India

Bhattacharjee

2023

Environ Plan D

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The commercial surrogacy industry in India administers in a way where the women working as surrogate mothers live in surrogate houses. It is a space deliberately designed and run by either the fertility clinics or a third-party agency, where the surrogate mothers are required to stay for the entire gestation period. The surrogacy industry in India utilizes the vulnerability of couples who do not or cannot have children, in order to prepare valuable and docile bodies which can serve as a platform for accumulation of wealth. This paper draws from an ethnographic inquiry of the surrogate housing facilities functioning in two cities in India: Anand and Bengaluru. The paper will argue that the surrogacy industry in India produces geographies of carceral domesticity by deploying disciplining apparatuses governing the day-to-day mundane activities of the reproductive laborers. The medical experts often resort to the narrative that these women cannot be trusted with the safety of the babies they carry, hence, justifying their confinement in the surrogate house. Further, the possibility that the surrogate mothers may develop emotional attachments to the babies they carry, which in turn, will endanger the surrogacy arrangements, also runs through such narratives of regulation.

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Section: Geographies Of Carcerality and Resistance In The Surrogate H...mentioning

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“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India

Bhattacharjee

2023

Environ Plan D

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“…As carceral spaces dedicated to incapacitating and punishing those considered deviant, prisons provide an obvious example of internal bordered enclaves or enclosed disciplines (Foucault, 1967(Foucault, , 1979Schliehe and Moran, 2017). They also openly serve as sites of intended transformation, highlighting that bordering transcends the physical, also involving the nonphysical through techniques of discipline and normalisation (Foucault, 1979).…”

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“…Through the use of prisons, the state seeks to make an example of those acting outside accepted social norms, setting up and reinforcing mental barriers to future deviance for both the original offender (in criminology, ‘specific deterrence’) as well as broader society (‘general deterrence’). This relates to Schliehe and Moran’s (2017: 270) reference to prisons as spaces that concern ‘identity, memory and internal as well as physical walls and bars’. Here, the physical serves as a means of reconstructing the incorporeal, imposing both tangible and intangible constraints that simultaneously affect both body and mind.…”

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Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia

Staines

2022

Sociology

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While medical quarantining has (again) received widespread attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, comparatively little consideration has been given to how medical quarantining is entangled with socio-political life. Further, there are no known studies that consider how quarantine might also be employed as a socio-political practice. This article explores the concept of social quarantine by tracing the creation of white Australia via the social construction, excise and discipline of Indigenous peoples as a potentially contagious Other. It shows how social quarantine integrates largely disparate sociological concepts/literatures (e.g. bordering, (im)mobility, confinement, enclave society, discipline, eugenics, assimilation), demonstrating how they unite under settler colonialism as a powerful assemblage of disciplinary technologies. Social quarantine also makes visible how the threat of contamination has been central to constructing and protecting Australia’s (white) imagined nationhood from the perceived disease of Otherness.

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The Carceral State: An American Story

Khan

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article reviews key works in the anthropology of mass incarceration, generated by anthropologists and their interlocutors whose research is directed outside physical sites of imprisonment. My geographical focus is on the United States during the last decade's political and economic Zeitgeist, shaped by the manifestations and consequences of the carceral state and the prison industrial complex. My discussion is also guided by research invigorated by anthropology's decolonizing drive and growing concern about racism within and outside the academy. Along the way, and emphasized in the final section, I make the case that anthropology's abiding interest in kinship is a productive approach for configuring our understanding of the American carceral state and the racial landscapes of carcerality. The research reviewed shows how deeply carcerality is embedded in race, illuminating its destructiveness in Black and brown communities, yet also revealing the creation of regenerative spaces of kinship.

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Conclusion: Reflections on Capturing the Carceral

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India

“This place is no better than a jail”: The geographies of surrogate houses in India

Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia

The Carceral State: An American Story

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