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Jill Hallam-Miller / August 31, 2016

‘It’s a Revolving Door’: Rethinking the Borders of Carceral Spaces

Vanessa Massaro (Bucknell University)

This paper explores the use of digital scholarship to understand the porous boundaries of the prison. I argue that the boundaries of a carceral landscape must be expanded to include the neighborhoods of incarceration. The consequences of an ever expanding prison industrial complex, including its perpetuation of racism and the “warehousing” of a surplus population are not distributed evenly across people and places. Rather, the experience of the prison industrial complex is uneven, impacting some communities much more than others. Yet, little work on the human experience of incarceration has considered the carceral experiences of the places that supply prisoners in the US. Specifically, this paper shows how neighborhoods like Grays Ferry, where most of the population is poor, African-American and under correctional supervision, are part of carceral space. Grays Ferry is one of many neighborhoods where the places and practices of incarceration extend beyond the prison walls to affect everyday life.  This paper builds on scholarship that exposes the expanding importance of the incarceration-business within a wider national and international context of militarization and prison-industrialization. My work builds upon this literature to show how incarceration works into the daily life and community spaces in inner city Philadelphia. In so doing, the paper draws on my ongoing use of digital scholarship tools to study the expansion of carceral spaces beyond bounded institutions and demonstrates how these spaces materialize through daily practice within the communities most affected by the criminalization and policing of the informal economy.

Vanessa Massaro holds a PhD in Geography and Women’s Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at Bucknell University. Her research focuses on the way spatially-segregated racial minorities, particularly African Americans, navigate the intersection of racism with broader forces of economic injustice brought by the globalization of the capitalist economy. Her dissertation work examined the materialization of the global drug trade as local practice through attention to the daily experiences of the links binding informal to formal economies, illegal to legal activities, and the local to the global in the drug trade. Her current work traces the household costs and networks of care that stem from the illegal economy across the neighborhood/prison divide.

Jill Hallam-Miller / August 23, 2016

Seeking Social Justice in the Digital Age: A Praxis-Oriented Approach to Community-Based Learning and Offender Reentry

Stephen Barnard (St. Lawrence University)

This presentation explores the pedagogy and praxis of a digital, sociological approach to community-based learning (CBL).  Through a close examination of experiences planning and teaching a course tailored to fit the needs of a county jail, I demonstrate a model for teaching CBL that serves the community as well as the students.  After reviewing the process of conducting a needs-assessment and designing programming appropriate for the cooperating institution, I discuss strategies for crafting appropriate course curricula.  The combination of individual (reflective blogging and experiential research) and collaborative assignments (community improvement project, group discussion facilitations, and presentations) provides a diverse yet sequenced set of assessments, which approach community engagement from a variety of angles.  The success of this CBL approach is shown through examples from students’ reflective blog posts as well as feedback from members of the cooperating institution.

Stephen Barnard is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University.  His research interests focus on the sociology of new media, culture, and communication.  His teaching incorporates a variety of digital and hybrid approaches to facilitate learning with and about technology.  His scholarship has appeared in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Contexts, and Hybrid Pedagogy, as well as in several edited volumes.  He tweets at @socsavvy.

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