Where the Sun Rises Square

""An outstanding and highly original ethnography of prison life and logics. Incisive and rich, this is the most novel scholarly work to document the intricacies, bureaucracy, containment, evasion and gendered nature of a prison system amidst exponential expansion. So many of its details are fascinating, troubling, and revisionary, and it reframes a growing conversation on incarceration in Brazil and Latin America. The scholarship is profoundly thoughtful and rigorous, yet is also patient and invested in ensuring a careful representation. Brilliant, moving, and beautiful."" —Graham Denyer Willis, University of Cambridge ""Where the Sun Rises Square is a path-breaking examination of the racialized, gendered violence of the carceral present. Thompson's moving ethnographic portrait of overcrowded Brazilian prisons invites readers to sit with the mundane, life-defining ways that resocialization as a promise deferred unfolds through legal minutia, maternal gestures and Evangelical asceticism to produce a punitive impossibility for hundreds of thousands of young Black Brazilians."" —Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University