"As Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the ""path to prison,"" which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence, must be interrogated for its involvement along this diffuse and mobile path. Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States-and follow the premise that to understand how the prison enacts its violence in the present one must shift the epistemological frame elsewhere: to places, discourses, and narratives assumed to be outside of the sphere of incarceration.
Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality offers not a fixed or inexorable account of how things are but rather a set of starting points and methodologies for reevaluating the architecture of carceral society and for undoing it altogether.
With contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright."
By:
Isabelle Kirkham–lewitt
Imprint: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 193mm,
Width: 126mm,
Spine: 34mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781941332665
ISBN 10: 1941332668
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 07 September 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Extended Stay: i.e. “The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same” Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt 2. Carceral Architectures of Policing: From “Mass Incarceration” to Domestic Warfare Dylan Rodríguez 3. Working to Get Free at the Rent Party Adrienne Brown 4. Brushy Mountain and the Architecture of Carceral Extraction James Graham 5. Fire Camp, Highway, Coal Mine: Geographies of the Carceral Quotidian Brett Story 6. Processing Power: Archives, Prisons, and the Ethnography of Exchange Jarrett M. Drake 7. “Nothing Stirred in the Air”: Affect, Sexuality, and the Architectural Terror of the Racial State Stephen Dillon 8. Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines Anne Spice 9. Zeroes and Ones: Carceral Life in the Data World Wendy L. Wright 10. Design of the Self and the Racial Other Mabel O. Wilson 11. Backward to Wayward: Listening to Archives of Disciplinary Education in Philadelphia Leslie Lodwick 12. No Place Like Home: Practicing Freedom in the Loopholes of Captivity Jasmine Syedullah Images throughout by Sable Elyse Smith Acknowledgments Bibliography
Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt is director of Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and contributing editor of the Avery Review. She is the editor of Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2020).
