Carceral Subjects brings together scholars and artists from across Canada and the United States to discuss a range of carceral projects—from mass incarceration and the penalization of racialized poverty; to migrant detention, Indigenous displacement, and the securitization of sovereignty; to prison camps, extraordinary rendition, and the laws of war— in relation to one another. How, we ask, can thinkers working in different fields and mediums collaborate to intervene in current conversations about incarceration and its place in contemporary societies, both in Canada and globally?
Impact
Underscoring the efficacy of a range of qualitative methods—ethnographic, analytical, artistic, and more—Carceral Subjects seeks to generate new knowledge about historical and present-day carceral institutions and the experiences to which they give rise. At the same time, we invite reflection on the procedures through which such knowledge is accessed and communicated, working to facilitate robust forms of public engagement with the problematic of incarceration and its wider implications.
Student Experience
In the short term, McMaster students benefit from collaborating with and being mentored by more established researchers with experience working within and across multiple institutional spaces. Over the long term, they will gain from the development of diverse networks of thinkers whose knowledges can be mobilized for projects of redress and transformation that approach carceral spaces as sites where global histories of colonial and capitalist violence continue to reverberate and play out.
Countries
Canada, United States of America
Impact
Research, Education, Global Partnerships
Institutional Partner(s)
Community Partner(s)
Industry Partner(s)
Key Outcomes
Publications
Sponsorship
Federal
Sponsorship Details
Carceral Subjects is funded by a SSHRC Connections Grant.
