Dear Colleagues,
We are seeking an additional panelist for a session proposal for they year's American Anthropological Association (AAA)/Canadian Association of Social Cultural Anthropology (CASCA) meeting in Vancouver Nov 20-24.
https://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/landing.aspx?ItemNumber=14722&navItemNumber=566
Full abstract below. We are particularly keen on including a paper that examines how carceral processes affect the life course of younger people (how they "do time"). If you are interested and able to attend the conference (registration is required for all who submit abstracts, but refundable if rejected), please contact Jason Danely (jdanely(at)brookes.ac.uk no later than 20 March.
Thank you!
Jason
“Doing Time”: Age(ing), Care and the ‘Carceral Continuum’
Organizers: Jason Danely (Oxford Brookes University), Daina Stanley (McMaster Univ)
Discussant: Paul Brodwin (UW Milwaukee)
“Doing time” in carceral spaces such as jails, prisons, detention centers, or serving probation, entails not only coping with life within the boundaries of confinement and surveillance, but also reflecting on times in the past and on possible futures. The role of carceral institutions in reproducing racial, economic and gendered forms of inequality, precarity, and violence have been examined at length (Garcia 2016; Knight 2015; Fassin 2016; Wacquant 2009). Yet in an age when infants and small children are separated and held in detention centers while elsewhere prisoners in advanced old age receive palliative and hospice care, we can no longer understand the ‘carceral continuum’ without addressing questions of age as well. Age is particularly crucial when examining the tensions and ambiguities that emerge when carceral spaces are both places of punishment as well as care (Sufrin 2017). Confinement activates time and its embodiment as age(ing) or generation in ways that create new possibilities for creating or repairing life-sustaining relationships with others.
This panel looks at various intersections of care and carceral processes as they develop and unfold across the life course. Subjects include the care of older ex-offenders in Japan; end-of-life care provided by staff, volunteers and fellow prisoners in the US; and the care of pregnant women and mothers (themselves caring for children) in Brazil. In these diverse cases, we ask how age might constitute a form of “doing time” that creates rhythms of recidivism, of illness and recovery, or of waiting and hoping. We also ask how these various modes of “doing time” open possibilities for care and intimacy, while at other times, they obstruct or foreclose those possibilities. These lines of inquiry offer further critical perspectives not only on criminality and care, but also on the role of carceral institutions as a ‘safety net’ in contemporary societies.
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