This dissertation contributes to the emerging field of carceral geography by demonstrating
how carceral space produces and manages social disposability in late capitalist American
life. In so doing, it posits that carceral space must be conceived as a complex geography,
one that inscribes the production of racialized poverty, incarceration, and devalued life into
its everyday socio-spatial relations. Carceral space encompasses the whole chain of
relationships that make up the prison system: from the sites of criminalization, arrest and …

This dissertation contributes to the emerging field of carceral geography by demonstrating
how carceral space produces and manages social disposability in late capitalist American
life. In so doing, it posits that carceral space must be conceived as a complex geography,
one that inscribes the production of racialized poverty, incarceration, and devalued life into
its everyday socio-spatial relations. Carceral space encompasses the whole chain of
relationships that make up the prison system: from the sites of criminalization, arrest and …