Captivating technology : race, carceral technoscience, and liberatory imagination in everyday life / Ruha Benjamin, editor.
| Other author | Benjamin, Ruha editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Naturalizing coercion: the Tuskegee experiments and the laboratory life of the plantation / Britt Rusert -- Consumed by disease : medical archives, Latino fictions, and carceral health imaginaries / Christopher Perreira -- Billions served : prison food regimes, nutritional punishment, and gastronomical resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch -- Shadows of war, traces of policing : the weaponization of space and the sensible in preemption / Andrea Miller -- This is not Minority Report : predictive policing and population racism / Joshua Scannell -- Racialized surveillance in the digital service economy / Winifred Poster -- Digital character in "the scored society" : FICO, social networks, and competing measurements of creditworthiness / Tamara K. Nopper -- Deception by design : digital skin, racial matter, and the new policing of child sexual exploitation / Mitali Thakor -- Employing the carceral imaginary : an ethnography of worker surveillance in the retail industry / Madison Van Oort -- Anti-racist technoscience : a generative tradition / Ron Eglash -- Techno-vernacular creativity and innovation across the African diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- Making skin visible through liberatory design / Lorna Roth -- Scratch a theory, you find a biography / a conversation with Troy Duster -- Reimagining race, resistance, and technoscience / a conversation with Dorothy Roberts. |
| Abstract | The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Captivating technology. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478003236 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018056888 |
| ISBN | 9781478004493 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1478004495 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv11sp7vr JSTOR |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |