Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention

Routon, Erin

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“…Scholars have noted that care can be the intended focus of an assemblage, or it can be an object of contestation between different actors. Routon (2021), documenting the provision of legal assistance to migrant families within detention centers in the United States, describes a friction between legal advocates who support migrant children and parents, and the administrators of the detention centers where families are detained. Routon argues that "administrative authorities repeatedly deploy putative care in ways that reinforce oppressive orders," while legal advocates enacted their own forms of care for detained families, sometimes exceeding their expected role as legal advocates (Routon, 2021, p. 332).…”

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Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage

Helepololei

2024

SSJ

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This article uses the concept of a progressive jail assemblage to think about the focus on jails as both a target of social justice organizing and a tool for advancing social justice goals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among formerly incarcerated organizers and their allies in Western Massachusetts (New England), I explore how the sheriffs who operate jails in this region, along with their collaborators, have increasingly sought to redefine the figure of the criminal as not just a danger to others but also a danger to themselves, someone in need of rehabilitative treatment and even care. In doing so, these sheriffs have attempted to reinvent their role, from the quintessentially American crime fighting figure, to one who is also a provider of care. Social justice activism has helped to expand the “caring” role of the jail, through increased addiction treatment, re-entry support, and community outreach – even to the extent of incarcerating individuals dealing with addiction who have not been charged with a crime. As progressive jails have been reconfigured as providers of care, abolitionists are confronted with the ongoing dilemma of how to remain a figure opposed to the use of prisons and jails without being seen as against care.

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Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage

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2024

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“…From kinships and caregiving forged within the space of the prison (Burton 2021; Routon 2021) to the fugitive archives and collective spaces that enable emergent intimacies across carceral geographies of the “non‐endings” of colonial and imperial warfare, the whisper of the impossible—"that a few more people can be (already have been!) free and unavailable for confinement" (Pearson 2021, 188)—boils into the present.…”

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A poetics of living rebellion: Sociocultural anthropology in 2021

Ihmoud

Cordis

2022

American Anthropologist

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In this experimental year‐in‐review article, we center the everyday, ongoing, and emergent rebellions of livingness against imbricated structures of antiblackness and Indigenous erasure that shape carceral global landscapes to think with the premise that “liberation is an already existing and unfinished and unmet possibility” (McKittrick 2021, 13). We do so through engaging what Orisanmi Burton (2021, 2) theorizes as the “ethnographic and political modality” of letter writing as an intimate practice of radical kinship and rebellious method. Our focus is on rebellious methods of living and loving that call on anthropologists to think with the fugitive acts of everyday people struggling to survive the shifting terrains of white supremacy, settler‐colonial and capitalist power, and ecological devastation while also tending to the forms of expansion, imagination, and rearticulation that always already exist in and beyond this frame. Sharing practices of rebellion and rebellious method across geographies allows us to hone anthropological insights from terrains of struggle through which alternative futures can be imagined, including constellations of a new humanism and anticipatory vocabularies of otherwise worlds.

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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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Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention

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Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage

Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage

A poetics of living rebellion: Sociocultural anthropology in 2021

The Carceral State: An American Story

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