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Freeing the Carceral Imagination : Prisons, Criminalization, and the Ruse of Righteous Violence.
Bloomsbury Collections: Philosophy Ethics and Political Philosophy 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stone-Mediatore, Shari.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- The carceral imaginary explains Americans' stubborn attachment to prisons, and we can only escape its racist and colonialist myths with different kinds of narrative practices.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Carceral Logic
- 2 Modern/Carceral Visions
- 3 Storytelling and the Imaginary
- 4 Liberal Dreams, Suburban Nightmares, and Carceralism as Story
- 5 Imaginaries of Righteous Violence
- 6 Criminalization and the Ruse of Righteous Violence
- 7 Unlocking Our Imaginations
- Postscript
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781978771468
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