Disrupting the Nexus of Neoliberalism and Carceral Reach
Pursuing Contemporary Social Change
- Textbook
Disrupting the Nexus of Neoliberalism and Carceral Reach
Pursuing Contemporary Social Change
- Textbook
Description
Neoliberalism fundamentally shapes how carceral systems and ideology emerge in our everyday lives. This volume illustrates not only the major frameworks at play, but the lived realities of how the carceral state insidiously infiltrates social institutions through neoliberal means. The authors evaluate and propose the ways that activism and other mechanisms of social change may reduce the damaging effects of these systems of power.
The book features an interdisciplinary set of contributions from scholars, activists, and professionals with intimate knowledge of how the intersection of neoliberalism and carceral reach takes shape. The book will capture how these realities impact education, reproductive health and rights, housing justice, prison proliferation, and racial violence. The authors extend the frameworks of neoliberalism and carceral reach into other social institutions where we see hyperpunitiveness, targeting, and extreme social control of vulnerable groups. It explicates concrete strategies to disrupt these connections from people who have studied and worked in these institutions for decades.
Table of Contents
Amy M. Magnus (University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA)
Chapter 1: The Decline of Neoliberal Hegemony: The US Fentanyl Epidemic as a Case Study
Alexandra Cox (University of Essex, UK)
Chapter 2: Outsourcing Carceral Reach: Theorizing the Role of Non-governmental, Private, Community-Based Organizations in Implementing Alternatives to Custody
Tim Goddard (Florida International University, Miami, USA)
Chapter 3: Carceral Abolition, the Eco-Climate Crisis, and the Role of Othered Knowledge Traditions
Marina Bell (Dominican University, USA)
Chapter 4: The Promise and Perils of Decriminalizing Schools in a Neo-liberal Context
Paul Hirschfield (Rutgers University, USA)
Chapter 5: Youth Precarity in a Neoliberal Mixed Income Housing Model
Molly Calhoun (California State University, Chico, USA)
Chapter 6: Rethinking Trauma-Informed Approaches in Juvenile Justice
Gabby Medina Falzone (California State University, Chico, USA)
Chapter 7: Choice, Responsibility and Moralizing Discourse: An Ex-prisoner's Path Through the Neoliberal War on Drugs
Joaquin Jordan and Sarah M. Smith (California State University, Chico, USA)
Chapter 8: The Carceral State and Political Mobilization
Sarah Gaby (University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA) and Firdaous Sbaï (University of Toronto, Canada)
About the Contributors
Notes
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 02 Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781538188057 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 bw illustration |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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