Necropolitics : the religious crisis of mass incarceration in America / Christophe D. Ringer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ringer, Christophe Darro.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Religion and Race.

Religion and Race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

African American prisoners.

African Americans--Effect of imprisonment on.

African Americans.

Religion and culture--United States.

Religion and culture.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2020.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020.

Summary:

Necropolitics: The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America explores the pernicious and persistent presence of mass incarceration in American public life. Christophe D. Ringer argues that mass incarceration persists largely because the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is a significant part of the religious meaning of America. This book traces representations from the Puritan era to the beginning of the War on Drugs in the 1980s to demonstrate their centrality in this issue, revealing how these images have become accepted as fact and used by various aspects of governance to wield the power to punish indiscriminately. Ringer demonstrates how these vilifying images contribute to racism and political economy, creating a politics of death that uses jails and prisons to conceal social inequalities and political exclusion.

"This book argues that the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is part of the religious meaning of America that fuels the problem of mass incarceration. The author develops a religious interpretation of the significance of these images to America's political economy that produces the very problems we punish as a society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Politics of Death in the Arche of the American Experience

2 The Necropolitics of Social Death and Statecraft

3 Beyond the Death-Bound-Subject

4 Necropolitics and Juridical Power

5 The Eschatological Production of Mass Incarceration

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-2189-7

1-7936-2680-4

OCLC:

1226585536