
Cars and Jails
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Andrew Ross is a social activist and professor at NYU, where he teaches in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Prison Education Program. Previously employed at Princeton University, he has held positions at Cornell, Rochester, Illinois and Shanghai universities. A native of Scotland, he has lived and worked in the U.S. since 1981, and in New York City since 1993. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty books, and has published more than 200 articles in a variety of journals, magazines, and news outlets. He is a founding member of several movement groups, including the Gulf Labor Coalition, Decolonize This Place, Strike Debt, and the Debt Collective, and he is active in the Palestinian rights movement.
Julie Livingston is Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. Her previous books include Self-devouring Growth: a Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa; Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic; and Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, in 2013 Livingston was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. She is an active member of the NYU Prison Education Program Research Collective.
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- Front Cover
- Back Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Authors' Note
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Right to Mobility?
- Chapter Two: Experiences-Freedom Dreams
- Chapter Three: Shaking Down the Traffic Debtor
- Chapter Four: Why Do So Many Owe So Much?
- Chapter Five: Experiences-Chutes and Ladders
- Chapter Six: Carceral Creep Meets Surveillance Capitalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- About the Authors
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