ANTH 047B. Feminist Theories of Carceral States

As carceral systems expand across the hemisphere, this course puts U.S.-based abolitionist feminisms and anthropological approaches to the prison-industrial complex in conversation with feminist traditions outside the U.S., particularly in Latin America. Together, these traditions help us examine how communities theorize and organize under carceral systems, while envisioning and rehearsing alternative forms of justice. The course introduces key concepts and debates in abolitionist and feminist thought, as well as approaches to policing, criminal law, and immigration enforcement, with attention to the praxis of transformative justice and sanctuary organizing. Drawing on scholarship in feminist theory and anthropology, and in dialogue with grassroots organizers, students engage with theories of the carceral state, interrelated forms of violence, and organizing for justice under carceral states in the Americas.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for ESCH
Spring 2027. Gimaldi.
Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology

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