ANTH 342 - Cultures of Incarceration

Explores incarceration from a global perspective, considering how carceral practices and ideologies vary across contexts. Each individual prison has its own complex, internal social dynamics - and each prison exists within a broader community with its own history. Drawing on ethnographic research and first-person narratives, students consider day-to-day experiences of life in prison, not as a site of exception, but as a place from which to better understand life beyond prison walls as well. Students engage with the work of prison ethnographers and incarcerated scholars to consider how sites of incarceration shape, and are shaped by, the diverse communities of which they are a part. Through collaboration with community-based organizations, students consider how prison reform and abolitionist activists have sought to change the cultures that support incarceration, locally and globally.

Credits: 1
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: ANTH 102 or ANTH 103 or SOCI 101
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: No First-year
Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges
Core Component: None

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