Susila Gurusami
Biographic Data
| ID | 258535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susila Gurusami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susila |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurusami |
| SIGNATURE | GURUSAMI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3278-8499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Letters to the Law
NO.If they build it, they will fill it!Building more jails and prisons creates more cages, period! Legislative and other e orts to single out some conviction categories as "exceptions" Use of electronic monitoring (home-arrest) and other law enforcement-led "alternatives" to jails and prisons.NO. Adding cages takes away state and local funding and resources that could be directed to community-led infrastructures.NO. Building more prisons and jail…
What the fuck? Surviving fantasies of sexual violence in the professoriate
Abolishing Carceral Distractions
LatCrim scholars and LatCrim scholarship are concerned with working towards racial justice, particularly with and for Latinxs ensnared by the criminal-legal system. To support existing and future work in this area, we conduct a discursive analysis of existing research, public policy, and responses to policies at the nexus of crimmigration scholarship and Latinx sexualities to examine how the figure of “the criminal” drives scholarship on racial j…
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home
Carceral Migrations
We theorize state governance through population spatial trajectories to capture how seemingly disparate systems of punishment employ the same set of punishment logics and technologies to spatially regulate populations of color, which produces and reifies racial projects. Advancing a theoretical framework called carceral migrations, we argue that governments use legal punishment to force, restrict, and prevent movement as a racializing project of …
The Grind
Motherwork Under the State
The Carceral Web we weave
This article asks: How do formerly incarcerated people navigate digital technologies? Using the metaphor of a spider web, I use 18 months of ethnographic observations of formerly incarcerated women of color to argue that formerly incarcerated people must contend with what I call— Carceral Web—the spatial intersection between carceral institutions and digital technologies. I identify two primary features of the Carceral Web: stickiness and entangl…
Working for Redemption
This article uses 18 months of ethnographic observations with formerly incarcerated black women to contend that they are subjected to what I term rehabilitation labor-a series of unwritten state practices that seek to govern the transformation of formerly incarcerated people from criminals to workers. I reveal that employment is subjectively policed by state agents and must meet three conditions to count as work: reliable, recognizable, and redem…
Motherwork Under the State
Working for Redemption
This article uses 18 months of ethnographic observations with formerly incarcerated black women to contend that they are subjected to what I term rehabilitation labor-a series of unwritten state practices that seek to govern the transformation of formerly incarcerated people from criminals to workers. I reveal that employment is subjectively policed by state agents and must meet three conditions to count as work: reliable, recognizable, and redem…
The Carceral Web we weave
This article asks: How do formerly incarcerated people navigate digital technologies? Using the metaphor of a spider web, I use 18 months of ethnographic observations of formerly incarcerated women of color to argue that formerly incarcerated people must contend with what I call— Carceral Web—the spatial intersection between carceral institutions and digital technologies. I identify two primary features of the Carceral Web: stickiness and entangl…
Carceral Migrations
We theorize state governance through population spatial trajectories to capture how seemingly disparate systems of punishment employ the same set of punishment logics and technologies to spatially regulate populations of color, which produces and reifies racial projects. Advancing a theoretical framework called carceral migrations, we argue that governments use legal punishment to force, restrict, and prevent movement as a racializing project of …
What the fuck? Surviving fantasies of sexual violence in the professoriate
Working for Redemption
This article uses 18 months of ethnographic observations with formerly incarcerated black women to contend that they are subjected to what I term rehabilitation labor-a series of unwritten state practices that seek to govern the transformation of formerly incarcerated people from criminals to workers. I reveal that employment is subjectively policed by state agents and must meet three conditions to count as work: reliable, recognizable, and redem…
The Carceral Web we weave
This article asks: How do formerly incarcerated people navigate digital technologies? Using the metaphor of a spider web, I use 18 months of ethnographic observations of formerly incarcerated women of color to argue that formerly incarcerated people must contend with what I call— Carceral Web—the spatial intersection between carceral institutions and digital technologies. I identify two primary features of the Carceral Web: stickiness and entangl…
Motherwork Under the State
The Grind
Abolishing Carceral Distractions
LatCrim scholars and LatCrim scholarship are concerned with working towards racial justice, particularly with and for Latinxs ensnared by the criminal-legal system. To support existing and future work in this area, we conduct a discursive analysis of existing research, public policy, and responses to policies at the nexus of crimmigration scholarship and Latinx sexualities to examine how the figure of “the criminal” drives scholarship on racial j…
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home
Carceral Migrations
We theorize state governance through population spatial trajectories to capture how seemingly disparate systems of punishment employ the same set of punishment logics and technologies to spatially regulate populations of color, which produces and reifies racial projects. Advancing a theoretical framework called carceral migrations, we argue that governments use legal punishment to force, restrict, and prevent movement as a racializing project of …
What the fuck? Surviving fantasies of sexual violence in the professoriate
Letters to the Law
NO.If they build it, they will fill it!Building more jails and prisons creates more cages, period! Legislative and other e orts to single out some conviction categories as "exceptions" Use of electronic monitoring (home-arrest) and other law enforcement-led "alternatives" to jails and prisons.NO. Adding cages takes away state and local funding and resources that could be directed to community-led infrastructures.NO. Building more prisons and jail…
Sociology (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)