Containment & Surveillance: Shifting Borders and Boundaries will explore how policing and surveillance are being utilized to define and defend new borders and boundaries in a changing city. Topics will include Project Greenlight, the jurisdictions and powers of various law enforcement agencies in Detroit, and the role of policing in the shifting landscape of public and private space in the city.
Each week will feature different Detroit-based speakers and guests who will explore the given topic and engage the students through a combination of formal remarks, presentations, and public discussion. Light dinner provided; free transportation from Ann Arbor to Detroit; public welcome and encouraged to attend.
*Please note that the recommended readings list is subject to be added to and/or edited*
Recommended Readings:
- Policing Home Spaces
- Detroit’s New Policing Strategy Is Stop-And-Frisk on a Massive Scale
- Does Detroit’s Project Green Light really make the city safer?
- Group fighting police brutality has questions for Wayne State University
- Dislocation Without Relocation
- “A War within Our Own Boundaries”: Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State
- Inside the Real Time Crime Center, DPD’s 24-hour monitoring station
- My Own Private Detroit
- Organizing to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline: An Analysis of Grassroots Organizing Campaigns and Policy Solutions
- The Dismantling of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1980-2014
- Project Green Light faces scrutiny as Detroit eyes mandate for thousands of businesses
- Watching Dan Gilbert’s watchmen
- Wayne State facing $127,000 fine for faulty crime reporting
- Spatial Stigma, Sexuality, and Neoliberal Decline in Detroit, Michigan
