Carol Jacobsen (Author and Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, Women’s Studies, American Culture, Human Rights) Lynn D’Orio (Attorney & Legal Director, MI Women’s Justice & Clemency Project) Interviewer: Ruby Tapia (Women’s Studies & English) “For Dear Life” (U. Michigan Press, 2019) chronicles feminist and artist Carol Jacobsen’s deep commitment to the causes of justice … Read more
Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Maine Emily Bosk, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Rutgers University Carol Jacobsen, Professor of Art & Design and Women’s and Gender Studies, U-M Katharine McCabe, IRWG Postdoctoral Fellow in Law, Gender and Health, U-M Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; University … Read more
Abstract: In this presentation, I explore the ways in which incarcerated people center mobility in conceptualizing what counts as alive and human. I draw on ethnographic research that I conducted between 2016 and 2017 at the Desert Echo Facility (pseudonym), a state prison in the American Southwest that holds individuals from minimum to high-security … Read more