Gender, race, and post-incarceration geographies
This project analyzes the socio-spatial implications of gendered social reproduction and the criminalization of poverty through an examination of women’s care networks and survival strategies following incarceration. I examine how women’s post-incarceration geographies are shaped by punitive social policies that dramatically limit access to services, by uneven geographies and urban disinvestment, and by discourses of poverty, gender, and race.Transforming Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Security, Mass Incarceration, and Community Health
This collaborative project - undertaken with Jenna Loyd, Robert Smith, Lorraine Halika Malcoe, and Jenny Plevin - examines
geographies of incarceration in Milwaukee, Wisconsin through
community-engaged research. The project reframes dominant scholarly and
policy understandings of the interconnections among security, justice,
and community health through research that 1) centers the experiences
of those most impacted by prison expansion through the development of
new media landscapes and public archives to demonstrate the uneven,
lived geographies of mass incarceration; 2) reconceptualizes trauma and
community health as structurally and historically produced to expand
public health and geographic analyses of incarceration; and 3)
interrogates security and safety through the everyday experiences of
communities regularly subjected to practices of policing and
securitization. This project is funded by a Transdisciplinary Challenge
Award from Center for 21st Century Studies. See project website here.