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Unpoliced TEAM 8
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This podcast is Unpoliced. We aim to deconstruct and understand the institutions of oppression, so we can one day dismantle them.
This one-episode special represents the culmination of months of scholarship in the history of policing. We focus specifically on the relationship between mass incarceration and mass deportation, and their significance. We do a deep dive into the nature of these systems, and why they seem so self-evident. We then take on the challenge of thinking of alternatives, thinking freely, thinking Unpoliced.
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Unpoliced
In the last year, we've seen a reckoning on policing and systems of oppression, and a reconsideration of the mass incarceration system. We've also seen a lot of attention paid to systems of immigration and deportation. We've seen movements of opposition rise against both systems of oppression. But what is often lost is just how intrinsically the ideas of mass incarceration and deportation are rooted in ideas of oppression. And what's missed even more is just how much the two are related. In this podcast, we hope to shed some light on that.
Sources Consulted and Recommended Readings:
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract
Tanya Maria Goulash-Boza, Deported
Stephen Graham and Alexander Baker, “Laboratories of Pacification and Permanent War”, The Global Making of Policing: Post Colonial Perspectives ed. Jana Hönke and Markus-Michael Müller
Laleh Khalili, “The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 3
David Lyon, “Circuits of City Surveillance since September 11, 2001”, Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics ed. Stephen Graham
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist
Audio Credits:
“Sounds of Hammering at the Forge”, Youtube
“Marching Footsteps on Concrete”, Youtube
“Average Man”, #blessed, Gavin Castleton
“New Slaves”, Yeezus, Kanye West
“Gyöngyhajú lány”, 10,000 lépés, Omega