{"product_id":"against-the-carceral-archive-the-art-of-black-liberatory-practice-hardback-9781531503765","title":"Against the Carceral Archive; The Art of Black Liberatory Practice (Hardback) 9781531503765","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAgainst the Carceral Archive\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Art of Black Liberatory Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDamien Sojoyner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531503765\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 April 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e128 pages, 7\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Carceral Archive \u003c\/i\u003eis a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the \"carceral archival project,\" offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from collections at the Southern California Library (Black Panthers, LA Chapter; the Coalition Against Police Abuse; Urban Policy Research Institute; Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; and the collection of geographer Clyde Woods), it builds upon theories of the archive to examine carcerality as the dominant mode of state governance over Black populations in the United States since the 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e Each chapter takes up an element of the carceral archive and its destabilization, destruction, and containment of Black life: its notion of the human and the production of \"pejorative blackness,\" the intimate connection between police and military in the protection of racial capitalism and its fossil fuel–based economy, the role of technology in counterintelligence, and counterinsurgency logics. Importantly, each chapter also emphasizes the carceral archive's fundamental failure to destroy \"Black communal logics\" and radical Black forms of knowledge production, both of which contest the carceral archive and create other forms of life in its midst. \u003cbr\u003e Concluding with a statement on the reckoning with the radical traditions of thought and being which liberation requires, Sojoyner offers a compelling argument for how the centering of Blackness enables a structuring of the mind that refuses the violent exploitative tendencies of Western epistemological traditions as viable life-affirming practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Human and the Carceral Archival Project   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003ePolice and the Carceral Archival Project   32\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eTechnology and the Social Sciences as Synergistic Violence   42\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eEnvironmental Instability   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003ePolicing Health and Safety   72\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003eLiberation   81\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion \u003c\/b\u003e  93\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReferences \u003c\/i\u003e  107\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619264786712,"sku":"9781531503765","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/against-the-carceral-archive-the-art-of-black-liberatory-practice-hardback-9781531503765","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}