Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals - Paperback

by Karen M. Morin (Author)

Carceral Spaces and Animals develops a framework for exploring embodied, geographical, legal, and ethical resonances across human and non-human carceral spaces.

Author Biography

Karen M. Morin is Associate Provost and Professor of Geography at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. Her interests span the history of geographical thought in North America, 19th-century travel writing, postcolonial geographies, carceral geography, and critical animal studies. She is author of Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (2008) and Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860-1890 (2011). She is co-editor of Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith (2007) and Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past (2015).