Afterword: The Urban and the Carceral

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Abstract

In this afterword, I consider some of the important insights that are generated in this special issue. The thorough and detailed consideration of the ways in which detainees and formerly incarcerated persons survive confinement and the constraints imposed on them illustrates the power of ethnography. Each of the contributions builds on strong empirical material and sometimes decade-long engagement with people in and on the brink of confining institutions. In this way, the contributions form a comprehensive empirical foundation for understanding confinement beyond the carceral institutions, while also allowing us to ask new kinds of questions about confinement beyond site. While firmly rooted in prison ethnography, the special issue thus inspires urban studies and anthropologists more broadly to think concertedly about the role of confinement, not only as the fate of many urban residents but as an ever-present element of the urban imaginary and of urban life.
Original languageEnglish
JournalThe Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Volume38
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)140-145
Number of pages6
ISSN0305-7674
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • gangs
  • human rights
  • Urban Studies

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