Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

Contributors

347 Contributors olga aksyutina is a senior research fellow at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. cynthia bejarano received her PhD from Arizona State University in the School of Justice Studies. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. She is the author of “Qué Onda?”: Urban Youth Cultures and Border Identity, and the co-­ editor (with Rosa-­ Linda Fregoso) of an interdisciplinary anthology, Terrorizing Women: A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas. Bejarano is an advocate for farmworkers’ access to postsecondary education, and is also the co-­ founder of Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez, an organization working to end violence against women in Chihuahua, Mexico, and the borderlands. anne bonds is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her current research examines the recruitment and siting of prisons in rural areas experiencing deep poverty in the American Northwest as a strategy for local economic development. borderlands autonomist collective was an anarchist, no-­ borders collective in southern Arizona active from 2006 to 2009. During this period the collective worked to confront the homeland security state through creative direct action and through participation and intervention in broader social movements . Although the group is currently on hiatus, various members remain involved in no-­ borders, anti-­ occupation, and immigrant rights struggles in Palestine, Arizona, and Kentucky. andrew burridge completed his PhD in the Department of Geography at the University of Southern California in 2009. Burridge has worked alongside migrant rights and humanitarian aid groups, including No More Deaths in southern Arizona, and with immigration raid response networks based in downtown Los Angeles. He has also been involved with the no-­ borders movement in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is currently a research associate at the International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University. 348 • contributors irina contreras is a Pacoima girl at heart. Her work as an interdisciplinary artist, fake-­ ademic educator, and writer engages language, public sites, and info dispersal. A former editor for loudmouth magazine, she writes and has made media for make/shift magazine, the anthology Nobody Passes, kpfk Pacifica’s Radioactive, and Clamor magazine. While not currently working in the pic, she still volunteers legal information for youth and adults. renee feltz and stokely baksh conducted an award-­ winning investigation into the profitable business of immigration detention while fellows in the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (www.BusinessofDetention.com). They have produced www.DeportationNation.org (supported by the Soros Criminal Justice Fund), which critically examines the Secure Communities program and the increasing detention of innocent and low-­ level immigrant offenders. Feltz is a former news director for kpft-­fm in Houston, Texas, and currently a producer for Democracy Now! Baksh is a freelance writer and graphic artist residing in Baltimore, Maryland. luis a. fernandez is an assistant professor in criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University. He is the author and editor of several books, including Policing Dissent and Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era (with Amory Starr and Christian Scholl). His research and teaching interests include protest policing, social movements, globalization, immigration, and issues in the social control of late modernity. ruth wilson gilmore, a professor of geography in the doctoral program in earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York, is an activist as well as an intellectual and is a past president of the American Studies Association (2010–2011). She examined how political and economic forces produced California’s prison boom in Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, which was recognized by asa with the Lora Romero First Book Award. She holds a PhD in economic geography and social theory from Rutgers University. amy gottlieb is the program director of the American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program in Newark, New Jersey, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees through contributors • 349 legal services, community organizing, and advocacy. Gottlieb graduated in 1996 from Rutgers Law School, where she is an adjunct professor of immigration law. She chairs the steering committee of the Detention Watch Network and is a board member of La Fuente and Houses on the Moon Theater Company. gael guevara is a former collective member and former community organizing coordinator of the...