Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life


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The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.

Author: Ruha Benjamin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 06/07/2019
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781478003816
ISBN10: 1478003812
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Privacy & Surveillance (see also Political Science | Privacy
- Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies

About the Author
Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.