Capitalism and Confinement

Author: Bohrer, A.J.

Colonialism & imperialism

Published on 17 November 2026 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

Goods, capital, and people move around the world faster and over greater distances than ever before. But capitalism's voracious expansion violently imposes confinement at every turn in the form of border walls, prisons, police, and property lines. Our lives are constricted in more subtle ways as well, through wages, the state, and social reproduction. Capitalism and Confinement examines why confinement seems to be intensifying, who benefits, and what we can do about it.