title: Captivity, citizenship, and the ethics of otherwise in the society-of-captives thesis: a commentary on Arrigo.
abstract: In this engagement with Professor Bruce Arrigo's psychological jurisprudence model, I explore his critique of captivity and risk management. I am particularly interested in his claims that incarceration culminates in society's own captivity, that the most destructive aspect of captivity is its foreclosing of human difference and potentiality, and that a praxis that is both clinical and mindful might point a way out. By way of a case anecdote, I interrogate several of the key terms in Arrigo's formulation-citizenship, reform, revolution, and praxis-in an effort to further conjugate from the ground up such an innovative and important set of possibilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, T37996-0490, USAmbrow121@utk.edu
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011329:Prisoners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011330:Prisons; D062487:Social Marginalization
keywords: citizenship; praxis; society-of-captives thesis; totalizing madness