1st Edition

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals

By Karen M. Morin Copyright 2018
182 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. The linkages across prisoner and animal... Read more

Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction. Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals Chapter 2: Death Row Across Species: The Execution Chamber and the Slaughterhouse Chapter 3: The Prison As/ And Laboratory: Sites of Trans-species Bio-Testing Chapter 4: Laboring Prisoners, Laboring Animals Chapter 5: Wildspace: The Cage, The Supermax, and the Zoo Chapter 6: Afterword: Reflections on Trans-Species Rights and Ethics References Index

Biography

Karen M. Morin is Associate Provost and Professor of Geography at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. Her interests span the history of geographical thought in North America, 19th-century travel writing, postcolonial geographies, carceral geography, and critical animal studies. She is author of Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (2008) and Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 18601890 (2011). She is co-editor of Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith (2007) and Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past (2015).