Research Catalog

Title

Paths to prison : on the architecture of carcerality / edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt ; contributions by Dylan Rodriguez ... [and eleven others].

Publication

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kirkham-Lewitt, Isabelle
• Smith, Sable Elyse

Description

526 pages : illustrations (some color); 20 cm.

Summary

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 Rodriguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright.

Series Statement

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Uniform Title

Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Subject

• Architecture and society > United States
• Prison-industrial complex > United States
• Prisons > Design and construction
• Racism > United States
• Architecture and society
• Prison-industrial complex
• Racism
• United States

Note

• Visual works by Sable Elyse Smith appear throughout.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-526).

Contents

Extended Stay: i.e. "The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same" / Isabell Kirkham-Lewitt -- Carceral Architectures of of Policing: From "Mass Incarceration" to Domestic Warfare / Dylan Rodríguez -- Working to Get Free at the Rent Party / Adrienne Brown -- Brush Mountain and the Architecture of Carceral Extraction / James Graham -- Fire Camp, Highway, Coal Mine: Geographies of the Carceral Quotidian / Brett Story -- Processing Power: Archives, Prisons, and the Ethnography of Exchange / Jarrett M. Drake -- "Nothing Stirred in the Air": Affect, Sexuality, and the Architectural Terror of the Racial State / Stephen Dillon -- Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines / Anne Spice -- Zeroes and Ones: Carceral Life in the Data World / Wendy L. Wright -- Design of the Self and the Racial Order / Mabel O. Wilson -- Backward to Wayward: Listening to Archives of Disciplinary Education in Philadelphia / Leslie Lodwick -- No Place Like Home: Practicing Freedom in the Loopholes of Captivity / Jasmine Syedullah

Call Number

JQD 21-96

ISBN

• 9781941332665
• 1941332668

OCLC

1198094564

Title

Paths to prison : on the architecture of carcerality / edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt ; contributions by Dylan Rodriguez ... [and eleven others].

Publisher

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-526).

Added Author

Kirkham-Lewitt, Isabelle, editor.

Smith, Sable Elyse, artist.

Research Call Number

JQD 21-96