This document contains discussion questions about two readings: 1) "Cabezas: Between Love and Money" which examines how Cabezas challenges categories of sex work and romance through ethnographic research methods. 2) "Sudbury: A World Without Prisons" which analyzes the prison industrial complex and its connections to militarism, neoliberalism, and prison expansion. Sudbury argues that truly tackling prison issues requires intersectional, multi-issue organizing rather than identity-based movements. The document also discusses how September 11th was used to justify increased militarism and privatization. The document asks students to brainstorm final discussion topics and addresses key concepts and arguments from both readings such

1. Globalization and Culture
Prisons I
Week 9
April 4, 2018

2. Cabezas: Between Love and Money
● What methods of research does Cabezas use? What do
these methods allow her to access that’s important for
our understanding of sex work?
● How does Cabezas challenge the category of sex work?
● What about the category of romance?
● How can we connect this article to the Sudbury
reading? How does it link up to our discussions about
labor and consumption?
-- And then -- what are topics you would like to address in
our final weeks? Brainstorm a list to share with class.

3. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Sudbury looks at three related
processes/structures:
● Militarism
● Neoliberalism
● Prison expansion

4. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Identity-based movements vs. multi-issue
movements
● What does Sudbury mean with this
distinction?

5. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Identity-based movements vs. multi-issue
movements
● Tackling any of these issues (i.e. prison
expansion) requires seeing its connection to
other issues
● Foregrounds the necessity of intersectional
analysis
● Thus, we need multi-issue, cross-movement
organizing

6. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Prison Industrial Complex
● What does this term describe?

7. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Prison Industrial Complex
● References the introduction of a profit motive
into social policy and laws related to
imprisonment
● Sudbury emphasizes two impacts of the PIC:
○ turning prisoners into profits
○ cementing prisons into local economies

8. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Globalization of prison economies

9. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Globalization of prison economies
● Prisons are not just embedded in local
economies, but they are key to global
economy as well
● Transnational private prisons: the exporting
of the US-model
● Prisons and development: Inter-American
Development Bank
● Role of prison lobbies and political donations

10. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
What role does September 11th play in
Sudbury’s analysis?

11. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
What role does September 11th play in
Sudbury’s analysis?
● False and exaggerated reports regarding
Hussein frame Iraq and then Afghanistan as
threats to the safety of American people
● Military occupation opens up Iraq to
privatization by US-based multinational
corporations
● Discourse of criminality and terrorism justifies
continued role of US military and construction of
“super-prisons”

12. Sudbury: A World Without Prisons
Through neoliberalism and militarism, a new
global system emerges. Characteristics of it
include:
● Targeting of African diasporic, immigrant,
and indigenous communities
● Skyrocketing rates of women’s incarceration
● Driving force of expansion is the PIC
● Model of warehousing of surplus labor:
immobilization and political
disenfranchisement

13. “More Harm than Good”