Books and Edited Collections by Catherine Besteman
Maine Law Review, 2024
This article argues that Maine incarcerates too many people, for too long, for too many things, a... more This article argues that Maine incarcerates too many people, for too long, for too many things, at too great of an expense. We offer evidence to support this claim, briefly review some of the criminal legal legislation that shaped our present reality, and show how recent efforts at reform have been, at best, only modestly successful. In concert with a growing number of expert voices across the country calling for strategies of decarceration, our goal is to demonstrate the need for second chance legislation in Maine in the form of the reinstatement of parole, an effective clemency process, a far-reaching reevaluation of custody levels, and a new revision of the Maine Criminal Code. We argue that Maine needs a restorative pathway to decarceration that would meaningfully reduce the number of people in prison and recidivism rates, while emplacing broader and more effective responses to harm than that afforded by incarceration alone.
American Ethnologist, 2020
Can we imagine a world in which things like public health, safe housing, clean water, nourishing ... more Can we imagine a world in which things like public health, safe housing, clean water, nourishing food, sustainable environmental practices, justice, harm reduction, equity, and mutual care top the list of priorities and values shared across the globe? Where struggles against the coloniality of power, patriarchy, racial hierarchies, and morbid capitalism unite the majority of people? Radical advocacy and activist networks have been doing such envisioning for generations, and sci-fi has long offered full scenarios of alternatively imagined futures. But what about anthropologists who may also long for these futures? We have tended to keep our focus more firmly on analyzing the structures that militate against the collective good. We often dissect the mechanisms that impede change rather than envision alternatives to our present realities. Knowledge production in academia, and the structures that accompany it, too often stifles political imagination Share This Story, Choose Your Platform! ! " % & ' () * + ,
Current Anthropology , 2019
An ELL (English Language Learner) book in English, Somali, and Maay-Maay.
an edited volume by the Network of Concerned Anthropologists
The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War, 1996
A collection of essays.
exhibitions, websites, films by Catherine Besteman
Digital exhibition as part of Freedom & Captivity, 2021
Statewide initiative of events, performance, and exhibitions about migration
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