INCARCERATING THE CRISIS: FREEDOM STRUGGLES AND THE RISE OF THE NEOLIBERAL STATE
JORDAN T. CAMP
Monday, November 28th, 2016
12:00pm in the Black Forum Room; Haines Hall 153
BOOK TALK: The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Drawing from his new book, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), Jordan T. Camp will trace the roots of the carceral crisis through a series of turning points in U.S. history, beginning with the urban uprisings of the 1960s and terminating with the policing crisis of 2014-2016. Through an examination of these dramatic instances of racial criminalization and state violence, he will suggest the making of the neoliberal carceral state was not inevitable and that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible.
Jordan T. Camp is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016), and co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of Clyde A. Woods’ Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
