Description: International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.
Brief description: JENNA M. LOYD is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 and Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States (coauthored with Alison Mountz).
Review Quotes:
Dares to undertake a task of political emergency that is here, now, and deeply historical . . . The thinkers in this collection catalyze a series of debates, conversations, and imaginative possibilities that stretch and vitally distend the existing horizons and languages of abolitionist, human/immigrant rights, prison reform, and U.S. border activisms. A mind-boggling array of critical positions, all informed by on-the-ground political work, is present in these pages. No one will walk away from this book unchanged.
--Dylan Rodríguez "author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime"