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The Late-Modern American Jail: Epistemologies Of Space And Violence, Karen M. Morin Feb 2016

The Late-Modern American Jail: Epistemologies Of Space And Violence, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

One of the most troubling aspects of current trends in American mass incarceration is the extent to which ‘criminality’ is produced within prison walls, primarily in the form of inmate–inmate or inmate–staff assaults. Most methods of prison or jail control have the adverse, and perverse, effect of increasing inmates’ levels of fear, terror, and ultimately violence – with stabbings, beatings, and other types of assaults common occurrences. The design of podular ‘direct supervision’ jails and their accompanying philosophies of punishment aspire to change these conditions. Direct supervision features correctional officers inside each housing unit with no physical barriers impeding supervision, …


Wildspace: The Cage, The Supermax, And The Zoo, Karen M. Morin Dec 2014

Wildspace: The Cage, The Supermax, And The Zoo, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


'Security Here Is Not Safe': Violence, Punishment, & Space In The Contemporary U.S. Penitentiary, Karen M. Morin Jun 2013

'Security Here Is Not Safe': Violence, Punishment, & Space In The Contemporary U.S. Penitentiary, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer the country’s first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program of readjustment. These spatial tactics, and the philosophy of punishment underlying them, contrast with the modern reform ideals upon which the prison was designed and built in 1932. The SMU represents the latest punitive phase …


Distinguished Historical Geography Lecture: Carceral Space And The Usable Past, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Distinguished Historical Geography Lecture: Carceral Space And The Usable Past, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Men's Modesty, Religion, And The State: Spaces Of Collision, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Men's Modesty, Religion, And The State: Spaces Of Collision, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Geographical Literacies And Their Publics: Reflections On The American Scene, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Geographical Literacies And Their Publics: Reflections On The American Scene, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Trains Through The Plains The Great Plains Landscape Of Victorian Women Travelers, Karen M. Morin Aug 2012

Trains Through The Plains The Great Plains Landscape Of Victorian Women Travelers, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

The young British novelist Iza Hardy, during her travels to America in 1881-83, anticipated the American West as terra incagnitae, a place completely beyond civilization. Like many other British tourists to America in the late nineteenth century, Hardy traveled extensively throughout the East Coast and South, and took a transcontinental journey to the Pacific Coast by train (Fig. O. Out of her American travels Hardy produced Between Two Oceans: Or, Sketches of American Travel (1884) and a book about Florida. Hardy's coverage of the western portion of her American journey followed the transect the railroad did, with chapters of …


Paradigm Dramas In American Geography, Karen M. Morin Dec 2011

Paradigm Dramas In American Geography, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Our Theories, Ourselves: Hierarchies Of Place And Status In U.S. Academia, Karen M. Morin, Tamar Rothenberg Dec 2010

Our Theories, Ourselves: Hierarchies Of Place And Status In U.S. Academia, Karen M. Morin, Tamar Rothenberg

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Unpopular Archives, Karen M. Morin Dec 2009

Unpopular Archives, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Charles Patrick Daly, Karen M. Morin Dec 2008

Charles Patrick Daly, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Landscape: Representing And Interpreting The World, Karen M. Morin Dec 2008

Landscape: Representing And Interpreting The World, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Feminist Groups Within Geography, Karen M. Morin Dec 2008

Feminist Groups Within Geography, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Landscape Perception, Karen M. Morin Dec 2008

Landscape Perception, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860-1890, Karen M. Morin Dec 2007

Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860-1890, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

The American Geographical Society (AGS) serves as a case study for considering the nature of “gendered geography” in the nineteenth-century United States. This article links the ideals and programmatic interests of the society—which were fundamentally commercial in nature—with the personal subjectivity of its chief protagonist, Charles P. Daly, AGS president from 1864 until his death in 1899. Daly is presented as an “armchair explorer” who shifted the focus of the society away from statistical representations of the world toward the action packed narrative descriptions of the world supplied by embodied explorers in the field. The gender dynamics associated with the …


Embodying Tropicalities: Commentary On Felix Driver's 'Imagining The Tropics: Views & Visions Of The Tropical World', Karen M. Morin Dec 2003

Embodying Tropicalities: Commentary On Felix Driver's 'Imagining The Tropics: Views & Visions Of The Tropical World', Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Edward W. Said, Karen M. Morin Dec 2003

Edward W. Said, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Embodying Tropicalities: Commentary On Felix Driver's 'Imagining The Tropics: Views & Visions Of The Tropical World', Karen M. Morin Dec 2003

Embodying Tropicalities: Commentary On Felix Driver's 'Imagining The Tropics: Views & Visions Of The Tropical World', Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Rosalie, Karen M. Morin Dec 2002

Rosalie, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

Highlights the village of Rosalie, Nebraska. Population; Boundaries; Village history; Origin of the name of the village; Group identity; Proximity of the village to the Omaha Reservation.


Travels With Feminist Historical Geography, Karen M. Morin, M. Domosh Dec 2002

Travels With Feminist Historical Geography, Karen M. Morin, M. Domosh

Karen M. Morin

We explore in this essay the relatively uneven "travels" of feminist historical geography within the academy in order to highlight the realized and potential intellectual productivity that can result from bringing together a feminist and historical approach to understanding place and space. We outline in what ways much of feminist geography is already historical and in what ways much of historical geography is already feminist, and then turn to a discussion of the unevenness of these intellectual journeys. We conclude by suggesting challenges for future research in feminist historical geography.


Postcolonialism And Native American Geographies: The Letters Of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899, Karen M. Morin Dec 2001

Postcolonialism And Native American Geographies: The Letters Of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Gendering Resistance: British Colonial Narratives Of Wartime New Zealand, Karen M. Morin, L. D. Berg Dec 2000

Gendering Resistance: British Colonial Narratives Of Wartime New Zealand, Karen M. Morin, L. D. Berg

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


(Anti?) Colonial Women Writing War, Karen M. Morin Dec 1999

(Anti?) Colonial Women Writing War, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Surveying Britain’S Informal Empire: Rose Kingsley’S 1872 Reconnaissance For The Mexican National Railway, Karen M. Morin Dec 1998

Surveying Britain’S Informal Empire: Rose Kingsley’S 1872 Reconnaissance For The Mexican National Railway, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Emplacing Current Trends In Feminist Historical Geography, Karen M. Morin, L. D. Berg Dec 1998

Emplacing Current Trends In Feminist Historical Geography, Karen M. Morin, L. D. Berg

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Peak Practices: Englishwomen's “Heroic” Adventures In The Nineteenth-Century American West, Karen M. Morin Dec 1998

Peak Practices: Englishwomen's “Heroic” Adventures In The Nineteenth-Century American West, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Strategies Of Representation, Relationship, And Resistance: British Women Travelers And Mormon Plural Wives, C. 1870-1890, Karen M. Morin, J.K. Guelke Dec 1997

Strategies Of Representation, Relationship, And Resistance: British Women Travelers And Mormon Plural Wives, C. 1870-1890, Karen M. Morin, J.K. Guelke

Karen M. Morin

During the 1870s and 1880s, several British women writers traveled by transcontinental railroad across the American West via Salt Lake City, Utah, the capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. These women subsequently wrote books about their travels for a home audience with a taste for adventures in the American West, and particularly for accounts of Mormon plural marriage, which was sanctioned by the Church before 1890. "The plight of the Mormon woman," a prominent social reform and literary theme of the period, situated Mormon women at the center of popular representations of Utah during …


British Women Travellers And Constructions Of Racial Difference Across The Nineteenth-Century American West, Karen M. Morin Dec 1997

British Women Travellers And Constructions Of Racial Difference Across The Nineteenth-Century American West, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.


Political Culture And Suffrage In An Anglo-American Women's West, Karen M. Morin Dec 1996

Political Culture And Suffrage In An Anglo-American Women's West, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.