SOSC 1009 Lecture Notes - Critical Resistance, Neoliberalism, Class Discrimination
14 Dec 2013
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Lecture outline: revisiting foucault, the prison, neoliberalism and global capitalism, the prison industrial complex. Racism and the prison industrial complex: the critical resistance movement, short film: corporate lockdown, revisiting foucault. Prison are part of the development of a disciplinary society. Prisons are meant to impose a system of prohibitions, obligations, deprivations (depriving one"s liberty), constraint the discourse of criminology, presented as science, was a new form of power. Existence of prisons, were for those who fell outside bounds of normalization. Foucault- doesn"t matter if prisons work, as long as they produce disciplined bodies. By 20th century- saw form of social work, repairing communities and family breakdown. Physical pain was no longer seen as form of punishment. Corporal punishment not a public spectacle now. The freer movement of goods, resources and enterprises in a bid to always find cheaper resources, to maximize profits and efficiency.
