Below is the IndyClass schedule for the entire semester. Weeks 1-7 involve collective readings and overview. Weeks 8-12 consist of facilitated workshops on each class member’s specific topic. Week 13 is a review, catch-up and peer editing week.
Readings for each week can be found on our “Readings” page or sub-pages (see right-hand column of your screen), under the appropriate week.
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Week 1 (today)
Theory/Overview
Bentham, Jeremy. “Panopticon, or The Inspection-House.”
Foucault, Michel. “The Gentle Way in Punishment.” From Discipline and Punish.
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Week 2 (Taylor and Maria). Sep. 15-19.
Theory/Overview
Monday: Alford. “What if everything Foucault said about prisons was wrong?”
Rhodes, Lorna. Introduction to Total Confinement.
Friday: Angela Davis. Are Prisons Obsolete? Chpts 1, 3, 4.
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Week 3 (Cleve, Nat). Sep. 19-26.
Monday: Political Economy of Prisons
Friday: Race and Racism
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Week 4 (Marina, Theresa, Sara). Sep. 29-Oct. 3.
Monday: Globalization
Friday: Detention/immigration
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Week 5 (Taylor and Tessa). Oct. 6-10.
Monday: Prisoner Health
Friday: Prisoners’ experiences of prison
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Week 6 (Nat and Maria). Friday, Oct 17. (Follows the long weekend.)
Friday: Prison Abolition and Alternatives to Prisons.
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Week 7: Oct 20-24 (Shayla, Cleve, Aviva, Theresa).
Monday: Prisons in Visual Media/Art. (Shayla)
Friday: Talking About Prisons/Deconstructing Mainstream Discourses.
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Week 8 – Week 11. Workshop series on our specific topics:
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Week 8: Oct 27-31
Monday: Privatization of Prisons in Canada. (Cleve)
Friday: Internal Prison Dynamics. (Tessa)
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Week 9: Nov 3-7
Monday: Criminalization of Poverty. (Taylor)
Friday: Prison Architecture. (Maria)
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Week 10: Nov 10-14
Monday: TBA. (Marina)
Friday: TBA. (Aviva)
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Week 11: Nov 17-21
Monday: Education and Activism in Prisons. (Nat)
Friday: TBA (Detention?). (Sara)
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Week 12: Nov 24-28
Monday: TBA. (Theresa)
Friday: Prisons in Visual Media (?) (Shayla).
Week 13: Dec 1-5(?)
Wrap Up: Course Review, Evaluation, Peer Paper Editing, and CELEBRATION.
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