Surveiller et punir
Foucault's "Discipline and Punish" has been a critical work for those whose work on geographies of power, examines how the state uses detention and confinement to exclude populations. Geographer Anne Bond investigated how social and criminal justice policies had become "increasingly punitive" as class and race inequalities became more entrenched. She argued that discourse on the poor, obscures how poverty is produced or increased because of the "neoliberal restructuring of rural economies and governance."