I’m honored to be speaking this week at an amazing symposium organized by Brady Heiner in the philosophy department at Cal-State Fullerton: Rethinking Mass Incarceration: Gender, Race, and the Prison Industrial Complex. There is an amazing lineup of speakers, including Kimberlé Crenshaw, Alisa Bierria, Susan Burton, Kitty Calavita, Kristie Dotson, Lisa Guenther, Justin Levitt, Sarah Tyson, Johnita Wilbon and Azadeh Zohrabi.
forthcoming chapter on death penalty “abolition” and LWOP
I recently received word that Death and Other Penalties, edited by Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman, is now under contract with Fordham University Press. I am honored to have a chapter included in the volume called, “Death Penalty Abolition in Neoliberal Times,” which critically takes up the failure of Prop. 34 in California, LWOP sentencing, and Foucault’s writings on the death penalty.
Free download of my Locke article; Punishment and Inclusion now in production
I was pleased to learn that my 2012 article, “To Kill a Thief: Punishment, Proportionality, and Criminal Subjectivity in Locke”™s Second Treatise” is now a free download from SAGE. Also I am happy to report that my first book, Punishment and Inclusion, is fully in production from Fordham Press, as part of their Fall 2014 catalog.
cambridge foucault lexicon, coming in Oct. 2013!
I was happy to see that Cambridge University Press has posted details on the forthcoming Foucault Lexicon, edited by Len Lawlor and John Nale. I have a modest entry included (on the subject of “Law”) and it should hit the shelves in the U.S. in October of 2013, and is full of really great looking contributors covering almost all the bases. A great resource for Foucault scholarship and pedagogy.
forthcoming… from Fordham University Press!
I’m really honored and thrilled and excited and pleased to be able to say that my book, Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism, will be published by Fordham University Press, as part of their Just Ideas series. The timeline and details are still being worked out, but I’m hoping for a 2013 or early 2014 release date.
New article published in Disability Studies Quarterly
A new article on criminal disenfranchisement, race, and mental disability has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly, a really amazing open-access journal. It is part of a special issue entitled, “Movement Politics” guest edited by Michael Ralph. It’s an honor to be published in such amazing company!
guest post at the Hannah Arendt Center
At the kind invitation of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, I wrote a short piece on Arendt, punishment, and forgiveness last week. I’m a novice in Arendt studies, so this was a fun chance to try my hand at working with her thought and some of the things I’m thinking about.
symposium on structural violence published in NPS
Thanks to the brilliant Prof. Yves Winter, an excellent set of articles on Galtung’s concept of structual violence is now online from New Political Science. I was honored to be asked to discuss the papers at APSA a few years back, and write an introduction to the pieces. Great work from Winter, Biebricher & Johnson, Vázquez-Arroyo, and Cocks. All worth reading.
forthcoming…
I just returned page proofs for an article that I’m really excited about. It’s a part of a symposium on continental and feminist pedagogy that will be in the next issue of PhiloSOPHIA. The full table of contents is online, and I’m honored to share journal space with Sina Kramer, Andrea Janae Sholtz, Hernando A. Estévez, and Holly Moore.
upcoming talk at UCLA
I’ll be presenting a paper on the power to pardon in Rousseau, Hegel, and Derrida in a few weeks at the UCLA political theory workshop. Really looking forward to it!