Micol Seigel: 2 books
Violence Work
State Power and the Limits of Police
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, Seigel redefines policing as “violence work,” showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state...
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...