Philosophy Faculty Work
Title
How America Disguises Its Violence: Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the Need for Resistant Imagination
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy
Volume Number
22
Issue Number
5
DOI
10.1080/13698230.2019.1565698
Abstract
This paper examines how a delusive social imaginary of criminal-justice has underpinned contemporary U.S. mass incarceration and encouraged widespread indifference to its violence. I trace the complicity of this criminal-justice imaginary with state-organized violence by comparing it to an imaginary that supported colonial violence. I conclude by discussing how those of us outside of prison can begin to resist the entrenched images and institutions of mass incarceration by engaging the work and imagining the perspective of incarcerated people.
ISSN
1369-8230
First Page
542
Last Page
561
Recommended Citation
Stone-Mediatore, Shari, "How America Disguises Its Violence: Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the Need for Resistant Imagination" (2019). Philosophy Faculty Work. 30.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/phil_pubs/30
Link Out URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1565698