Brett Story’s Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America offers a timely reflection on the role of mass incarceration in remaking the neoliberal contours of contemporary U.S. culture. Working within the traditions of critical prison studies and structural critiques of neoliberalism, Story offers detailed portraits of a number of landscapes shaped by the logic of mass incarceration. She persuasively argues that the work of prison abolitionism must also encompass the deeper structural projects of abolishing racism and other injustices in society at large. This book is best read alongside the documentary, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016), by the same author.
Articles by Marcia Klotz
Marcia Klotz is an Assistant Professor of English and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is also director of the Prison Education Project, which coordinates volunteers from the University of Arizona and the local community to bring higher education classes to the Tucson State Prison Complex. She is interested in the intersection of coercive power structures and neoliberal economics, and is currently working on a book manuscript titled Forgive Us Our Debts: Economic Theology in the Age of Finance Capital.