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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Active Intolerance: An Introduction
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History: The GIP and Foucault in Context
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Body: Resistance and the Politics of Care
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Voice: Prisoners and the Public Intellectual
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Present: The Prison and Its Future(s)
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About this book
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.
Reviews
"Active Intolerance is an important collection, one that deepens our philosophical and pragmatic understandings of the promises and compromises of contemporary abolitionist advocacy. Read this volume for contributions that allow us to pace the floor, working on our resistance and conflicted relationships in search of a better future.' Joy James, Williams College, USA, and author of Seeking the Beloved Community
"While we often hear about the liberal virtue of tolerance, Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts' powerful and necessary collection makes a compelling case for the active cultivation of intolerance. Active Intolerance convinces us that we need to be intolerant of the prison and of the racist and carceral society of which mass incarceration is the extreme manifestation." - Chloe Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada
"Active Intolerance pushes our thinking about prisons, prisoners, public intellectuals, and abolition forward. There is something here for the Foucault scholar and prison abolitionist alike. The scholarship is insightful and it deepens our understanding of the problems of mass incarnation and how to work against it. This book must be reckoned with." - Rashad Shabazz, author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity
About the authors
Perry Zurn is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, USA.
Andrew Dilts is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Active Intolerance
Book Subtitle: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition
Editors: Perry Zurn, Andrew Dilts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137510679
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51066-2Published: 17 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55286-3Published: 24 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51067-9Published: 26 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 297
Topics: Social Theory, History of France, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Politics of the Welfare State, Prison and Punishment, Sociology, general