Anna Terwiel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Terwiel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Terwiel |
| SIGNATURE | TERWIEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3827-0650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prison abolition
Prison abolition and political theoryCriminalization, militarized policing, and imprisonment are at the heart of the Trump regime.In line with the 2024 campaign promise to conduct the largest deportation program in U.S. history, undocumented immigrants have been the first and most vulnerable targets of attack.Immigration detention is at an all-time high due to escalating arrests by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and th…
The Revolutionary Politics of Abolition
Visions of Resistance
Critical remarks on Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions
Problematization as an Activist Practice
This article proposes a new understanding of problematization as a collaborative activist practice that enables social change by unsettling existing ways of thinking. An important term in Michel Foucault's late work, problematization is usually understood as a form of philosophy that entails ethical self-transformation. Considering Foucault's scholarship alongside his activism with the Prisons Information Group (GIP), I theorize problematization …
What Is Carceral Feminism
In recent years, critiques of “carceral feminism” have proliferated, objecting to feminist support for punitive policies against sexual and gendered violence that have contributed to mass incarceration. While the convergence of feminist and antiprison efforts is important, this essay argues that critiques of carceral feminism are limited insofar as they present a binary choice between the criminal legal system and informal community justice pract…
What is the Problem with High Prison Temperatures? From the Threat to Health to the Right to Comfort
In recent years, extreme heat in United States (US) jails and prisons has become a contested political issue. This article takes high prison temperatures, and prisoners’ demands for air-conditioning, as a case to reconsider established ways of thinking about the prison and punishment. Most advocates of air-conditioning focus on the health risks of exposure to extreme heat. This article, alternatively, identifies two limitations of such health-bas…
Ethics and Politics for Somatic Individuals
Ethics and Politics for Somatic Individuals: Heyes’ Self-Transformations Anna Terwiel (bio) Cressida Heyes, Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies.1 Oxford University Press, 2007. $34.99 (paper). 176 pages. ISBN10: 0-19-531054-3, ISBN13: 978-0-19-531054-2 What do sex-reassignment surgery, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery have in common? All three are techniques of body modification that appear increasingly normal a…
What Is Carceral Feminism
In recent years, critiques of “carceral feminism” have proliferated, objecting to feminist support for punitive policies against sexual and gendered violence that have contributed to mass incarceration. While the convergence of feminist and antiprison efforts is important, this essay argues that critiques of carceral feminism are limited insofar as they present a binary choice between the criminal legal system and informal community justice pract…
What is the Problem with High Prison Temperatures? From the Threat to Health to the Right to Comfort
In recent years, extreme heat in United States (US) jails and prisons has become a contested political issue. This article takes high prison temperatures, and prisoners’ demands for air-conditioning, as a case to reconsider established ways of thinking about the prison and punishment. Most advocates of air-conditioning focus on the health risks of exposure to extreme heat. This article, alternatively, identifies two limitations of such health-bas…
The Revolutionary Politics of Abolition
Ethics and Politics for Somatic Individuals
Ethics and Politics for Somatic Individuals: Heyes’ Self-Transformations Anna Terwiel (bio) Cressida Heyes, Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies.1 Oxford University Press, 2007. $34.99 (paper). 176 pages. ISBN10: 0-19-531054-3, ISBN13: 978-0-19-531054-2 What do sex-reassignment surgery, weight-loss dieting, and cosmetic surgery have in common? All three are techniques of body modification that appear increasingly normal a…
What is the Problem with High Prison Temperatures? From the Threat to Health to the Right to Comfort
In recent years, extreme heat in United States (US) jails and prisons has become a contested political issue. This article takes high prison temperatures, and prisoners’ demands for air-conditioning, as a case to reconsider established ways of thinking about the prison and punishment. Most advocates of air-conditioning focus on the health risks of exposure to extreme heat. This article, alternatively, identifies two limitations of such health-bas…
Problematization as an Activist Practice
This article proposes a new understanding of problematization as a collaborative activist practice that enables social change by unsettling existing ways of thinking. An important term in Michel Foucault's late work, problematization is usually understood as a form of philosophy that entails ethical self-transformation. Considering Foucault's scholarship alongside his activism with the Prisons Information Group (GIP), I theorize problematization …
What Is Carceral Feminism
In recent years, critiques of “carceral feminism” have proliferated, objecting to feminist support for punitive policies against sexual and gendered violence that have contributed to mass incarceration. While the convergence of feminist and antiprison efforts is important, this essay argues that critiques of carceral feminism are limited insofar as they present a binary choice between the criminal legal system and informal community justice pract…
Visions of Resistance
Critical remarks on Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions
The Revolutionary Politics of Abolition
Prison abolition
Prison abolition and political theoryCriminalization, militarized policing, and imprisonment are at the heart of the Trump regime.In line with the 2024 campaign promise to conduct the largest deportation program in U.S. history, undocumented immigrants have been the first and most vulnerable targets of attack.Immigration detention is at an all-time high due to escalating arrests by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and th…
Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)