Wang, Jackie (2018), Carceral Capitalism

In a May 2018 interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books concerning her book, Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang was asked to summarize the link between the phenomenon of racialized mass incarceration and the seemingly omnipresent debt economy, which takes a central role in the book. Resolutely,...

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Hoofdauteur: Gabriel, João
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 2019
Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:In a May 2018 interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books concerning her book, Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang was asked to summarize the link between the phenomenon of racialized mass incarceration and the seemingly omnipresent debt economy, which takes a central role in the book. Resolutely, the performer, poet and Harvard PhD candidate replied that she “wanted to think of debt as a form of unfreedom that is unequally distributed”. One can hardly oppose this definition, for, in her boo...