New article by Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate Justin Hosbey in Environment and Planning F. This article fuses ethnography, spatial analysis, interviews, and archival research to explore the ways that people incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) experience the uneven impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Despite unlivable conditions, inmates at Angola have provided crucial critiques of the prison industrial complex that crystallize an emergent form of authoritarianism that articulates itself at the convergence of anthropogenic climate change, racial capitalism, and incarceration. The article argues that the lived experiences and political critiques of incarcerated people must become integrated into contemporary environmental justice struggles.
February 6, 2025