Mass Incarceration and Carceral Space
September 7, 2015
Vanderbilt professor of philosophy, Lisa Gunther, visited our Curb Scholars meeting this week, where she spoke with us about mass incarceration in the United States and about a few projects going on in Nashville to bring together people on both the inside and outside of prisons in discussion. We had a thought-provoking discussion about the function that prisons serve in society as well as the rise of privatization of prisons. After the presentation, students walked around Vanderbilt and considered the ways in which carceral space is represented on our campus. The Curb Scholars brought back photos of security cameras and swipe-card entrances, walls and fences, considering the boundaries and surveillance on various spaces. Lisa is compiling these images and notes in a social justice art project of postcards from a prison society.
