Mapping the Unfree Labor of Prison Agriculture: A Conversation with Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca

Prison Agriculture Lab directors Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca discuss the ubiquity of carceral agriculture in the United States, its structuring logics of racial capitalism, and possibilities for abolitionist food futures.

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Alison McCleery obituary

My wife, Alison McCleery, who has died aged 69 of breast cancer, was a professor of economic and cultural geography who specialised in research on the economic, social and cultural development of the North Atlantic periphery.

Born and brought up in Edinburgh, Alison was the daughter of Margaret (nee Shillinglaw) and George Bruce. Her father, a teacher of French and German, was also a keen amateur singer and musician, enthusiasms he passed on to his daughter. As a schoolgirl at Mary Erskine school, Alison played the french horn in an orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles (then a pupil at George Watson’s college) and when she moved to St Andrews University in 1972, she played in the university orchestra while also singing in the chapel choir. It was at St Andrews that she and I met, and two years after Alison graduated with a first class degree in geography, we were married in 1978.

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Let Me Show You Some of My History

Katherine finally explains why she left college for a year: she found it fake. But now she's going back, and she is on a mission, slow and steady.