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Containing the Surplus Rebellion: Prison Strike/Prison Riot

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  • Stark Alejo

    (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

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The 2016 and 2018 wave of prison strikes in the United States presents itself as an extraordinary flashpoint of the prisoner resistance movement. But how might these events be understood in relation to what has been broadly characterized as an “age of riots”? Following Joshua Clover’s characterization of the contemporary riot in Riot. Strike. Riot. as a “surplus rebellion” of racialized “surplus populations” and given the characterization of the contemporary carceral state as a warehouse to contain such racialized populations, this essay characterizes the contemporary wave of prison riots accordingly as a “surplus rebellion.” More specifically, it focuses on the Kinross prison strike-riot that broke out in September 2016 in Michigan’s Kinross prison in order to derive some general parallels between the surplus rebellion and the singularity of recent prison strikes.

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  • Stark Alejo, 2020. "Containing the Surplus Rebellion: Prison Strike/Prison Riot," New Global Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 14(2), pages 193-203, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:14:y:2020:i:2:p:193-203:n:9
    DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2020-0015
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