Dear Anthropologists,
We are hosting a double panel at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual conference next year in Boston. The deadline for panel submission is approaching and we still have one or two spots open on our panel. Interested in joining us? Please write us with a 200-word abstract by Monday 3 September, thank you!
Best wishes,
Julienne & Evi
Exploring the Punitive Turn, Carceral State, and Sovereignty from Below
Over the past two decades, prison populations across Latin America have exploded. Tough-on-crime policies and discourses surrounding ‘citizen security’ (seguridad ciudadana) have soared, often being deployed in political campaigns waged against ‘drug trafficking’ or ‘organized crime’. Yet those imprisoned tend to disproportionately come from historically impoverished sectors of society and marginalized areas. Effectively, this has meant that concerns for citizen security have served to mask (or enhance) practices of criminalization, containment, confinement, and social relegation. What they have also intended to delegitimize, however, are particular forms of resistance, practices of ‘sovereignty from below’ (including criminal enterprise) and enactments of ‘extralegal agency’ or insurgent citizenship. In this sense, this panel is concerned not only, or not as much, with how the ‘criminal’ Other is constructed in such policy contexts, but especially with how 1) these ‘Others’ experience and deal with the varying forms of confinement imposed on them (from prison to migrant detention, to particular settings of urban/rural containment), and 2) with how state agents enact punitive, carceral, and/or what might be seen as ‘new’ authoritarian agendas. Regarding the latter, the intention is to scrutinize the localities and temporalities of the ‘carceral state’ or ‘authority’. In order to do this, we bring together close ethnographic explorations of different confining/sovereign practices and the ways these are enacted and/or experienced. Specifically, we are interested in interrogating how differing techniques and practices of confinement and sovereignty (both from above and from below), shape and are shaped by novel (and not so novel) contexts of authoritarian state enforcement. By doing this, we seek to bring to the fore valuable conceptualizations and vantage points from Latin American research to what continues to be a predominantly Anglocentric debate on the ‘punitive turn’ and carceral expansion.
Organizers:
Julienne Weegels (CEDLA-University of Amsterdam) & Evi Kostner (Utrecht University)
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