Assembling “The Camp”: Agricultural Labor and the Wartime Carceral State in Chesterfield, Missouri, 1937–1972

For decades, both incarceration and research on the topic have proliferated. Disciplines within the Western sciences have studied the topic of incarceration through their respective lenses. Decades of data reflect trends and consequences of the carceral state, and based on that data the various disciplines have put forth arguments as to how the trends and consequences are of relevance to their respective fields of study. The research trajectory of incarceration research, however, overlooks the assumptions behind punishment and control and their institutionalization that produce and maintain the carceral state and its study. This omission of assumptions facilitates a focus on outcomes that serve to reinforce Western perspectives, and it contributes to the overall stagnation in the incarceration research produced in Western disciplines. An assessment of the study of the carceral state within the mainstream of American Political Development in the political science discipline provides an example of how the research framework contributes to the overall stagnation, even though the framework of the subfield allows for an historical institutionalization perspective. The theoretical perspectives of Cedric J. Robinson reveal the limits of Western lenses to critically assess the state. The alternative framework he provides to challenge the limits imposed on research production by Western perspectives applies to the argument presented here concerning the limitations that hamper the study of the carceral state.

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Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada

Meridians ◽

10.2979/meridians.15.1.08 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 137-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Lena Palacios

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Carceral State ◽

Black Race

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EVALUATING THE CONTRIBUTION OF TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY ON AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN AN GIANG PROVINCE

Scientific Journal of Tra Vinh University ◽

10.35382/18594816.1.29.2018.30 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (29) ◽

pp. 29-37

Author(s):

Tan Van Truong

Keyword(s):

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Agricultural Labor ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Agricultural Growth ◽

Regression Approach ◽

Investment Capital ◽

Agricultural Demand

By the growth regression approach, the research has identified that the investment capital contributed 1,939 and agricultural labor contributed 1,291 to the agricultural growth of An Giang province. More specifically, the contribution of TFP (Total Factor Productivity) to the agricultural growth in the period 2000 - 2004 was averagely 0,11%, in 2005 - 2010 was -5,03%, and in period 2011 - 2016 was 0,81%. The total factor productivity contributed to the agricultural growth slowly. In order to raise the contribution of TFP, the research represents 05 solutions including the increase of the effectiveness of using the investment capital, the increase of the quality of labor, the application of the science and technology into agricultural production, agriculturalrestructuring, and the increase of agricultural demand.

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