Carceral Geographers attending the AAG meeting in Chicago, IL next Spring should have plenty to keep their attention. Jen Turner and Dominique Moran have put together a series of linked sessions which draw together some really exciting work and should provide plenty of scope for discussion and conversation. Join us!

Carceral Geographies I: Theorisations of Confinement

• Christophe Mincke: Prison: Legitimacy Through Mobility?
• Elizabeth A. Brown: Care, carceral geographies, and the reconfiguration of mass incarceration
• Kimberley Peters: ‘Unlock the volume’: bringing height and depth to carceral mobilities
• Stephanie Figgins: Between the Sheets of the U.S. Deportation Regime

Discussant:         Nick Gill

 

Carceral Geographies II: Prison Architecture and Design

• Gideon Boie: Fit IN Stand OUT: Rules and Elements for Humane Prison Architecture
• Jennifer Turner: Shaping ‘inhabitation’: the complexities of prison design and prison building
• Dominique Moran: Prison architects as moral agents: is it possible to design a ‘healthy’ prison?
• Fie Vandamme: Prison Up Close: the new subject of a penitentiary spatial structure

Discussant:         Lauren Martin

 

Carceral Geographies III: Activity, Agency and Organisation

• Katie Hemsworth:”Prisoner’s Talking Blues”: Music, emotion, and spatiality in prisons
• Orisanmi Burton: The Politics of Containment: Prison-Based Activism in the Empire State
• Lloyd Gray: How do prisoners experience and perceive the education environment within a prison? An interpretative phenomenological analysis approach
• Geraldine Brown: A holistic evaluation of delivering a community based food growing mentoring programme in a prison setting with substance misuse offenders.

Discussant:         Shaul Cohen

 

Carceral Geographies IV: Gendered and Embodied Confinement.

• Victoria Knight: Modus Vivendi: The cell, emotions, social relations and television
• Jessica Bird: Segregation in Scottish Prisons: A Socio-Spatial History
• William Payne: Governmentality, performativity and sexuality – A scholarly consideration of a drag show in a prison
• Rae Rosenberg: Transgender Embodiment in Carceral Space: Hypermasculinity and the US Prison Industrial Complex

Discussant:         Karen M. Morin

 

Carceral Geographies V: (Re)defining Boundaries

• Elizabeth Bos: We were there too: Reflexive experiences of evaluating a prison gardening intervention
• Dana Cuomo: Incarceration and domestic violence: Perspectives from victims on the outside
• Tony Sparks: The Asylum is on These Streets: Managing Mental Illness in the Carceral Community
• Avril Maddrell: The charity shop, permeable carcarel spaces, gendered power relations, reparation and rehabilitation

Discussant:         Jennifer Turner

 

Carceral Geographies VI: (Re)defining Boundaries 2

• Nathan Kahn: Public Memory, Landscape, and Historic Carcerality at the Groveland Correctional Facility
• Oriane Simon: Extraordinary Rendition’s Transfers in Ambiguous Spaces
• Vanessa Anne Massaro: Prison’s revolving door and the porous boundaries of carceral spaces
• Stephen Sherman: Why Drug-Free School Zones are Bad for Communities: Evaluating sentence enhancement zone outcomes across urban forms

Discussant:         Dominique Moran

 

Carceral Geographies VII: Future Directions in Carceral Geographies

Panelists:             Shaul Cohen, Nick Gill, Dominique Moran, Deirdre Conlon, Jennifer Turner