Unlock the Volume: Towards a Politics of Capacity

Peters, K and Turner, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-7143-1751 (2018) Unlock the Volume: Towards a Politics of Capacity. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, 50 (4). pp. 1037-1056.

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Abstract

In recent years “volume” has become a key analytic idea, and tool, for re‐imagining and making sense of historical and contemporary socio‐cultural and geopolitical phenomena. This paper argues that this important work could be pushed in new directions by thinking seriously of how volume might otherwise be interpreted spatially, as capacity . Accordingly, in this paper, we address what we call a “politics of capacity”. To do so, we draw specifically on debates in carceral geography and, in particular, the pressures on the prison system to illustrate our argument. Drawing on notions of “operational capacities” and “capacity building” in the prison setting, we outline a manifesto for volumetric thinking that moves beyond expressions of power that cut through height, depth and angles, to an understanding of how power is conveyed through maximum and minimum capacities; density and mass; and capacity‐building techniques.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	volume, capacity, carceral, prison, politics
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2018 08:17
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:36
DOI:	10.1111/anti.12397
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3020117