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SUMMARY:Book Launch with TONY PLATT at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Tony Platt\, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society\, UC Berkeley\, discusses his groundbreaking new work\, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States\, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration\, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt\, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice\, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked\, arrested\, incarcerated\, catalogued\, and regulated in the United States. \nBeyond These Walls traces the disturbing history of punishment and social control\, revealing how the criminal justice system attempts to enforce and justify inequalities associated with class\, race\, gender\, and sexuality. Prisons and police departments are central to this process\, but other institutions – from immigration and welfare to educational and public health agencies – are equally complicit. \nPlatt argues that international and national politics shape perceptions of danger and determine the policies of local criminal justice agencies\, while private policing and global corporations are deeply and undemocratically involved in the business of homeland security. \nFinally\, Beyond These Walls demonstrates why efforts to reform criminal justice agencies have often expanded rather than contracted the net of social control. Drawing upon a long tradition of popular resistance\, Platt concludes with a strategic vision of what it will take to achieve justice for all in this era of authoritarian disorder. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, January 17\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
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LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi in conversation w/ Joshua Sperling about his new book "A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger"
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate writer Joshua Sperling’s new book\, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. We love John Berger here at Wolfman and we couldn’t be more excited about this book! Sperling “draws on first-hand\, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available\, to dig beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience.” Yes\, please! Sign us up for that! Even better\, Joshua Sperling will be in conversation with one of our local faves and New Life Quarterly columnist\, Zoé Samudzi\, who is also a Berger enthusiast. \nThe two will be in conversation about how Joshua came to the book\, their different connections to Berger\, delineate some themes or dialectical tensions at the heart of the book and ask you how these are pertinent to each’s current work and activism\, including the processes of collaboration\, the role of self-questioning and doubt during transitional political moments\, the motive-force of love in activism\, working inside/outside of academia\, and so much more! \nCopies of A Writer of Our Time will be available. You don’t want to miss this! \nJoshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Guernica\, Film Quarterly\, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine\, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College. \nZoé Samudzi is a Sociology doctoral student at the University of California-San Francisco\, and writer and photographer. She is the co-author of As Black as Resistance (AK Press 2018). Her work seeks to merge political theory\, visual studies\, and critical approaches to science in service of a multidisciplinary means of articulating Blackness(es).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi-in-conversation-w-joshua-sperling-about-his-new-book-a-writer-of-our-time-the-life-and-work-of-john-berger/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WORKAROUNDS
DESCRIPTION:featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act)\, Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys)\, James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory)\, Dinika Amaral\, and Ralph Paone\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, Thursday January 17th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-workarounds/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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