Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (1st ed. 2016)

By: Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn

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Synopsis: This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781137510679
Related ISBNs:: 9781137510662, 9781137510662
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
Date of Addition:: 08/06/19
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Andrew Dilts
Edited by:: Perry Zurn