Incarcerating the Crisis
Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7307791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melanie Diane Newport (University of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 208-209 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay107 |
| OpenAlex | W2803878132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Incarcerating the Crisis is a sweeping theorization of the historical origins of the development of the carceral state in the United States within the overlapping contexts of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism. Reinterpreting familiar events, Jordan T. Camp argues that the carceral state rose from “linked events” and “persistent patterns” amid “a dialectical struggle between the rhetoric of counterinsurgency and the poetics of resistance” (pp. 11, 10, 11). In interdisciplinary conversation with political scientists, geographers, and social theorists, Camp's chapters are structured as a series of before-and-after narratives aimed at making connections between responses to social justice claims by marginalized people and elite advancement of a security-oriented domestic governing apparatus. Describing the post–World War II era as a period of “hegemonic crisis,” Camp considers how political actors, including activists, artists, poets, prisoners, and singers, contested the emergence of a carceral state as he aims to answer a question: “What has been the relationship between racial regimes, capitalist restructuring, and mass antiracist and class struggle?” (pp. 4–5
Criminology · Dialectic · Elite · Hegemony · Mass incarceration · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prison · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |