Deplorable or Disposable? The Carceral State, the Warfare State, the 2016 Election, and Grand Narratives

“Deplorable or Disposable? The Carceral State, the Warfare State, the 2016 Election, and Grand Narratives” by Marie Gottschalk, professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Gottschalk specializes in American politics, with a focus on criminal justice, health policy, race, the development of the welfare state, and business-labor relations. Her latest book is Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 2014). She is also the author of The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell University Press, 2000). In her lecture, she will be analyzing the 2016 election in a global context and highlighting what we miss by not doing so.