Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V31 #2
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2023
- Category
- Criminology, Activism & Social Justice, Gender Studies, Disease & Health Issues
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9782760337435
- Publish Date
- Dec 2023
- List Price
- $20.00
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Volume 31, Number 2 (2022) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons featuring two dialogue sections. The first, featuring pieces on "Prison Labour", is edited by Jordan House (Brock University) and Kelly Struthers Montford (Toronto Metropolitan University). The second, featuring pieces on "Gender, Health and (In)justice in Canada", is edited by Martha Paynter (University of New Brunswick), OmiSoore Dryden (Dalhousie University) and El Jones (Mount Saint Vincent University). The collection also features a preface commemorating the 35th anniversary of the JPP, a Response on the importance of mutual aid following imprisonment, as well as reviews of a film and two books. The cover art was created by Joker (front) and Peter Collins (back).
About the authors
Justin Piché is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, a founding member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, and researcher for the Carceral Cultures Research Initiative. His research examines how criminalization and confinement is justified and resisted during state campaigns to expand carceral controls and in popular culture.
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Jordan House is an assistant professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. His research focuses on prison labour and prisoner-worker organizing, new forms of worker organization and labour movement renewal. His work has appeared in several publications, including Labour / Le Travail, Labor Studies Journal, Rankandfile.ca, Canadian Dimension and Jacobin. He previously worked as a labour organizer and union researcher and is a long-time prison justice activist.
Kelly Struthers Montford is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Punishment, Law and Social Theory at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Alberta in 2017. Her work has appeared in the New Criminal Law Review, PhiloSophia, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, among other venues.
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Martha Paynter is a registered nurse providing abortion and postpartum care in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The founder and chair of Wellness Within: An Organization for Health and Justice, and a doctoral candidate at the Dalhousie University School of Nursing, Martha has 20 years of experience working to advance gender health equity. Her practice, teaching and research focus on the intersection of reproductive health and the justice system. A frequent contributor to Briarpatch, CBC, the Coast, the Conversation, the Halifax Examiner, and Saltwire, Martha writes about publicly-funded health care, prison abolition, and gender equity.
OmiSoore Dryden is the James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, and an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University. Dr. Dryden is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is situated in Black Canadian thought, specifically Black queer diasporic analytics. She is a researcher-in-residence and a member of the African, Caribbean and Black Program Science Scholars Lab, Ontario HIV Treatment Network. Dryden is also a member of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies International Research Group. She is the co-editor of Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging and has published a number of peer-reviewed papers.
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El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies in 2017. She was Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.
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Jennifer Taylor has been writing Mills & Boon novels for some time, but discovered Medical Romance books relatively recently. Having worked in scientific research, she was so captivated by these heart-warming stories that she immediately set out to write them herself. Jennifer’s hobbies include reading and travelling. She lives in northwest England. Visit Jennifer's blog at jennifertaylorauthor.wordpress.com
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