If you read about Nancy Luxon's Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens, you might be tempted to take a pass.
After all, it's a companion volume to the English translation of Disorderly Families, by philosopher Michel Foucault and Arlette Farge, blah blah blah ...
But if you listen to Nancy Luxon talk about her book - and Foucault's, you realize that our current fraught relationships with the police and the justice system (not to mention people who are forced to look for help from systems of institutionalized racism or sexism) are part of an on-going struggle that began centuries ago.
Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens by Nancy Luxon will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in June.
The companion volume, Disorderly Families:
Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2016.
