Dear Geography Faculty and Students:
Please see the thoughtful note that Dr. Brown in Sociology sent us, announcing
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes film (showing Sunday, March 5 at 3pm in the Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium).
Best wishes,
DA
Derek H. Alderman, PhD
Vice President, American Association of Geographers
Professor & Head, Department of Geography
Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor of Social Science
University of Tennessee
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Knoxville, TN 37996-0925
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From: Brown, Michelle
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 11:46 AM
To: Alderman, Derek <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Prison in 12 Landscapes
Hi Derek,
I wanted to share information with you about an upcoming event that might be of special interest to your department...
I’m excited to write you concerning an upcoming event, sponsored by the Student Peace Alliance, Sociology, and Community Defense of East TN. Carceral geographer and filmmaker Brett Story is bringing her internationally award-winning film, The
Prison in Twelve Landscapes, (still in theaters) to Knoxville. Brett writes, and as most of you know, that more people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt
further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work
and affect lives, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town (just north of us, in fact) betting its future on the
promise of prison jobs, to the courts that criminalized the entire community of Ferguson, Missouri.
The film has garnered rave reviews. I’ve seen it (in Toronto, NYC, and now here) and there is nothing quite like it in the history of the representation of the prison. It speaks to the contemporary political moment in an uncanny, compelling,
usable way: racial justice, political economies of disposability, the criminalization of everyday life, and its complex intersectionalities.
The first screening is on Sunday, March 5 at 3pm in the Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium. The second is Monday, March 6 at 6pm at the Tabernacle Baptist Church (2137 MLK Boulevard). Brett will speak after this showing
in a town hall forum format that will include many of our local and statewide community organizers.
I have attached a flyer. Please circulate widely. Best wishes,
Michelle
Michelle Brown
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Sociology
University of Tennessee