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Love is in the Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration with Prisoners' Radio

  • Building on bell hooks’ conceptualization of love as a mode of political resistance, this article explores how prisoners’ radio employs love to combat injustice. Through an examination of two prisoners’ radio projects – The Prison Show in Texas and Restorative Radio in Kentucky – I argue that incarcerated people and their loved ones appropriate the radio to perform public and revolutionary acts of love, countering the oppressive forces of mass incarceration in the United States. By unapologetically positioning their love for prisoners front and center, ordinary Americans subvert systems of oppression which mark incarcerated folks as incapable and unworthy of love. Love is an intrinsic marker of humanity, so prisoners’ radio allows the incarcerated and their advocates on the outside to actively challenge the dehumanization that people face behind bars.

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Author:Eleanor R. Benson
Parent Title (English):Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2018), pp. 1-16. [digitalcommons.macalester.edu/tapestries/vol7/iss1/7]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Benson_E_R_2018
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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