Carceral coloniality in Venezuela: theorizing beyond the Latin American penal state
Scholarship that explores the rise of the Penal State in the United States and Europe has largely failed to address the relationship between the carceral and the current power structures fused through colonization in Latin America. Wacquant explores how the growth of prisons results from the economi...
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2021
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Carceral communities in Latin America
Jahr: 2021, Seiten: 145-168 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Scholarship that explores the rise of the Penal State in the United States and Europe has largely failed to address the relationship between the carceral and the current power structures fused through colonization in Latin America. Wacquant explores how the growth of prisons results from the economic model of neoliberalism, but I argue that this construction is insufficient when examining prisons in Venezuela because global capitalism is not only neoliberal but it is also colonial/modern and Euro-centered. Based on historically rooted ethnographic research in five Venezuelan prisons, I propose a theoretical lens for examining prisons beyond locales of punishment but also as institutions that are shaped by and reinforce hierarchies built on superiority/inferiority - reflecting coloniality/modernity and euro-centrism, a concept which I have called “carceral coloniality.” |
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| ISBN: | 9783030614980 |
