Greening the Gulag
"Austerity, neoliberalism, and the making of the "green prisoner
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Jewell Bohlinger, Brittany Bohlinger (Syracuse University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1120-1136 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848619879041 |
| OpenAlex | W2978397036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
Over the past 30 years the U.S. prison population has exploded. With the impact of climate change already here, we are also seeing new critiques of mass incarceration emerge, namely their environmental impact. In response to these burgeoning critiques as well as calls to action by the Justice Department to implement more sustainable and cost-effective strategies in prisons, the United States is experiencing a surge in prison sustainability programs throughout the country. Although sustainability is an important challenge facing the world, this paper argues that while "greening" programs seem like attempts to reform current methods of imprisonment, sustainability programming is an extension of the neoliberalization of incarceration in the United States. By emphasizing cost cutting while individualizing rehabilitation, prisons mobilize sustainability programming to produce "green prisoners" who are willing to take responsibility for their rehabilitation and diminish their economically burdensome behaviors (i.e. excessive wastefulness). Using semi-structure journals and interviews at three Oregon prisons, this paper investigates these ideas through the lens of the Sustainability in Prisons Project
Austerity · Imprisonment · Mass incarceration · Political science · Politics · Population · Prison · Sociology · Sustainability · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law
Incarcerating the Crisis
Progressive Punishment
Weapons of the Weak
Organising Neoliberalism
Golden Gulag
Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
‘A lockdown facility … with the feel of a small, private college’
The construction and stewardship of responsible yet precarious subjects
Creating the responsible prisoner
The Varieties of Ecological Piety
The paradox of the ‘green’ prison
Sustainability science and education in the neoliberal ecoprison
Crafting the Neoliberal State
From the Guerra Del Agua to the Guerra Del Gas
Emissions Trading, New Enclosures and Eco‐Social Contestation
Perceptions and Presentations of Living with Everyday Risk in Later Life
Power, Adaptation and Resistance in a Late-Modern Men’s Prison
Prisons that Empower
The Responsibilization Strategy of Health and Safety
Brief History of Neoliberalism
It takes a garden
Doing Prison Research
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |