Unpoliced 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