Chris Garces
Biographic Data
| ID | 76490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Garces |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Garces |
| SIGNATURE | GARCES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century
Carceral Pandemic Politics and Epidemiological Elites in Ecuador: Beyond harrowing scenes of overburdened hospitals and loved ones unable to bury their dead, Ecuador’s coronavirus crisis has also prod…
When Covid-19 infections swept across Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest port and industrial hub, in March 2020, the poorest and wealthiest zones in the metropolitan area were the first to be hit. In Sam
Forming Mobile Research Teams
Promise and Contradiction in Ecuador's New Prison Model: Ecuador's New Prison Model seeks to shift away from from neoliberal prison management. But serious abuses within the prison system—from lack of…
In the last five years, Ecuador's prison system registered an unprecedented transformation as a result of its New Prison Model, applied to all 53 facilities in operation across the country. This co
American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama
Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Martín de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form of agency, or licencia, with which a mulato colonial monastic could influence his Spanish Creole superiors, perform miracles, and gain a widespread reputation for superhuman piety. I ask: under what specific conditions could licencia have been wielded by nonwhite Christian subjects to ma…
Abstracting the checkpoint: American fantasy-lives and security nightmares
Popular contemporary film and music aestheticize what is already well known throughout the Americas, but cannot be spoken at the state’s threshold: the global expansion of checkpoint architecture as the voyeuristic mechanism of state securitization. From Baauer’s Harlem Shake and Sean Paul’s She Doesn’t Mind, to Latin American films such as Maria Full of Grace and Por Sus Propios Ojos, I demonstrate the erotics of power simultaneously concentrate…
Denuding Surveillance at the Carceral Boundary
To keep drugs and weapons out and to generate security clearance, Ecuador's prison administrations now demand the visual, digital, or physical strip searching of all adult citizens who establish contact with incarcerated subjects. The prison system may normalize such denuding and voyeuristic surveillance, but prison officers deny any sexual content in these procedures while satisfying their professional gatekeeping tasks-the maintenance of carcer…
"Ecuador's "black site
When a state of emergency in Ecuador's prison system was declared in 2007, municipal leaders in Guayaquil built the country's first "supermax" prison, La Roca, for the administrative segregation of inmates considered a security threat. I suggest that administrative curtailment of access to these so-called "worst of the worst" prisoners merits legal comparisons with the juridical status of detainees in US "black site" facilities, the inter-America…
Sacrifice
Chesnut, R. Andrew: Devoted to Death. Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
Anthropos , Seite 304 - 305
Exclusión constitutiva: Las organizaciones pantalla y lo anti-social en la renovación urbana de Guayaquil
En el transcurso de los últimos cinco años, bajo el prolijo eslogan de “renovación urbana”, Guayaquil ha sido testigo de una vasta y compleja reorganización política del espacio urbano. Este proceso empezó durante el mandato del alcalde León Febres Cordero quien junto a sus aliados políticos locales planificaron un revolucionario y sofisticado esquema de modificaciones en la estructura física y la limpieza pública a orillas del malecón
People's Mic and democratic charisma
The People's Mic is a new genre of political speech. In Occupy Wall Street (OWS) general assemblies, this tactile media for public deliberation was integral to embodying new political community across American cities in a globally oriented movement of the squares. Whether or not OWS has exemplified direct democracy per se, the People's Mic has cultivated new forms of democratic charisma between previously disaggregated constituencies-a "leaderful…
The Cross Politics of Ecuador's Penal State
This essay examines inmate "crucifixion protests" in Ecuador's largest prison during 2003-04. It shows how the preventively incarcerated-of whom there are thousands-managed to effectively denounce their extralegal confinement by embodying the violence of the Christian crucifixion story. This form of protest, I argue, simultaneously clarified and obscured the multiple layers of sovereign power that pressed down on urban crime suspects, who found t…
Juan soldado rapist, murderer, martyr, saint Vanderwood, Paul J
Mauss Redux: From Warfare's Human Toll to L'homme total
After his 1919 demobilization, yet before writing The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss developed his concept of the "total human being" ( l'homme total ) as a methodological spur in works such as "L'expression obligatoire des sentiments" (1921). This translation and introduction to "The obligatory expression of feelings" highlights Mauss's post-war transition to psycho-physiological research and the concept of totality. Here, Mauss considers Australian …
The Ethical Turn … to Saintliness? An Ethnographic Challenge
The Cross Politics of Ecuador's Penal State
This essay examines inmate "crucifixion protests" in Ecuador's largest prison during 2003-04. It shows how the preventively incarcerated-of whom there are thousands-managed to effectively denounce their extralegal confinement by embodying the violence of the Christian crucifixion story. This form of protest, I argue, simultaneously clarified and obscured the multiple layers of sovereign power that pressed down on urban crime suspects, who found t…
Mauss Redux: From Warfare's Human Toll to L'homme total
After his 1919 demobilization, yet before writing The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss developed his concept of the "total human being" ( l'homme total ) as a methodological spur in works such as "L'expression obligatoire des sentiments" (1921). This translation and introduction to "The obligatory expression of feelings" highlights Mauss's post-war transition to psycho-physiological research and the concept of totality. Here, Mauss considers Australian …
Denuding Surveillance at the Carceral Boundary
To keep drugs and weapons out and to generate security clearance, Ecuador's prison administrations now demand the visual, digital, or physical strip searching of all adult citizens who establish contact with incarcerated subjects. The prison system may normalize such denuding and voyeuristic surveillance, but prison officers deny any sexual content in these procedures while satisfying their professional gatekeeping tasks-the maintenance of carcer…
People's Mic and democratic charisma
The People's Mic is a new genre of political speech. In Occupy Wall Street (OWS) general assemblies, this tactile media for public deliberation was integral to embodying new political community across American cities in a globally oriented movement of the squares. Whether or not OWS has exemplified direct democracy per se, the People's Mic has cultivated new forms of democratic charisma between previously disaggregated constituencies-a "leaderful…
"Ecuador's "black site
When a state of emergency in Ecuador's prison system was declared in 2007, municipal leaders in Guayaquil built the country's first "supermax" prison, La Roca, for the administrative segregation of inmates considered a security threat. I suggest that administrative curtailment of access to these so-called "worst of the worst" prisoners merits legal comparisons with the juridical status of detainees in US "black site" facilities, the inter-America…
The Ethical Turn … to Saintliness? An Ethnographic Challenge
Juan soldado rapist, murderer, martyr, saint Vanderwood, Paul J
Mauss Redux: From Warfare's Human Toll to L'homme total
After his 1919 demobilization, yet before writing The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss developed his concept of the "total human being" ( l'homme total ) as a methodological spur in works such as "L'expression obligatoire des sentiments" (1921). This translation and introduction to "The obligatory expression of feelings" highlights Mauss's post-war transition to psycho-physiological research and the concept of totality. Here, Mauss considers Australian …
The Cross Politics of Ecuador's Penal State
This essay examines inmate "crucifixion protests" in Ecuador's largest prison during 2003-04. It shows how the preventively incarcerated-of whom there are thousands-managed to effectively denounce their extralegal confinement by embodying the violence of the Christian crucifixion story. This form of protest, I argue, simultaneously clarified and obscured the multiple layers of sovereign power that pressed down on urban crime suspects, who found t…
Sacrifice
Chesnut, R. Andrew: Devoted to Death. Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
Anthropos , Seite 304 - 305
Exclusión constitutiva: Las organizaciones pantalla y lo anti-social en la renovación urbana de Guayaquil
En el transcurso de los últimos cinco años, bajo el prolijo eslogan de “renovación urbana”, Guayaquil ha sido testigo de una vasta y compleja reorganización política del espacio urbano. Este proceso empezó durante el mandato del alcalde León Febres Cordero quien junto a sus aliados políticos locales planificaron un revolucionario y sofisticado esquema de modificaciones en la estructura física y la limpieza pública a orillas del malecón
People's Mic and democratic charisma
The People's Mic is a new genre of political speech. In Occupy Wall Street (OWS) general assemblies, this tactile media for public deliberation was integral to embodying new political community across American cities in a globally oriented movement of the squares. Whether or not OWS has exemplified direct democracy per se, the People's Mic has cultivated new forms of democratic charisma between previously disaggregated constituencies-a "leaderful…
American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama
Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Martín de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form of agency, or licencia, with which a mulato colonial monastic could influence his Spanish Creole superiors, perform miracles, and gain a widespread reputation for superhuman piety. I ask: under what specific conditions could licencia have been wielded by nonwhite Christian subjects to ma…
Abstracting the checkpoint: American fantasy-lives and security nightmares
Popular contemporary film and music aestheticize what is already well known throughout the Americas, but cannot be spoken at the state’s threshold: the global expansion of checkpoint architecture as the voyeuristic mechanism of state securitization. From Baauer’s Harlem Shake and Sean Paul’s She Doesn’t Mind, to Latin American films such as Maria Full of Grace and Por Sus Propios Ojos, I demonstrate the erotics of power simultaneously concentrate…
Denuding Surveillance at the Carceral Boundary
To keep drugs and weapons out and to generate security clearance, Ecuador's prison administrations now demand the visual, digital, or physical strip searching of all adult citizens who establish contact with incarcerated subjects. The prison system may normalize such denuding and voyeuristic surveillance, but prison officers deny any sexual content in these procedures while satisfying their professional gatekeeping tasks-the maintenance of carcer…
"Ecuador's "black site
When a state of emergency in Ecuador's prison system was declared in 2007, municipal leaders in Guayaquil built the country's first "supermax" prison, La Roca, for the administrative segregation of inmates considered a security threat. I suggest that administrative curtailment of access to these so-called "worst of the worst" prisoners merits legal comparisons with the juridical status of detainees in US "black site" facilities, the inter-America…
Promise and Contradiction in Ecuador's New Prison Model: Ecuador's New Prison Model seeks to shift away from from neoliberal prison management. But serious abuses within the prison system—from lack of…
In the last five years, Ecuador's prison system registered an unprecedented transformation as a result of its New Prison Model, applied to all 53 facilities in operation across the country. This co
Forming Mobile Research Teams
Carceral Pandemic Politics and Epidemiological Elites in Ecuador: Beyond harrowing scenes of overburdened hospitals and loved ones unable to bury their dead, Ecuador’s coronavirus crisis has also prod…
When Covid-19 infections swept across Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest port and industrial hub, in March 2020, the poorest and wealthiest zones in the metropolitan area were the first to be hit. In Sam
Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)