ABSTRACT
Dominique Moran et al. advance a useful taxonomy to define carceral space as encompassing a set of 'carceral conditions' that bear the nature and quality of carcerality, and in so doing help us move beyond Foucault's notion of carcerality as encompassing the social in its entirety. In this chapter, the author proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a 'trans-species carceral geography' that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. Fundamental to how and why certain prisoners and certain animals can be exploited, objectified, or made killable within the prison, the farm, the research lab, and the zoo are the social constructions of the human–nonhuman divide–the 'carceral logics' and social meanings that attach to various bodies and populations. The carceral exceeds categories of criminality and penality, involving systems of confinement but which differ from those that a sociology of punishment or criminality would address.
