Historical Geographies of Prisons
eBook - ePub

Historical Geographies of Prisons

Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Historical Geographies of Prisons

Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past

About this book

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution of correctional institutions as a specific subset of carceral geographies. This book analyzes and critiques global practices of incarceration, regimes of punishment, and their corresponding spaces of "corrections" from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spaces of punishment, and offers an interpretation of spaces of incarceration as cultural-historical artifacts. The book also analyzes the spatial-distributional geographies of incarceration, particularly with respect to their historical impact on community political-economic development and local geographies. Contributions within this book examine a range of prison sites and the practices that take place within them to help us understand how regimes of punishment are experienced, and are constructed in different kinds of ways across space and time for very different ends. The overall aim of this book is to help understand the legacies of carceral geographies in the present. The resonances across space and time tell a profound story of social and spatial legacies and, as such, offer important insights into the prison crisis we see in many parts of the world today.

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Yes, you can access Historical Geographies of Prisons by Karen Morin, Dominique Moran, Karen M. Morin,Dominique Moran,Karen Morin, Karen M. Morin, Dominique Moran in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Geography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780367668778
eBook ISBN
9781317532613

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Introduction: historical geographies of prisons: unlocking the usable carceral past—KAREN M. MORIN AND DOMINIQUE MORAN
  11. PART I On the inside: carceral techniques in historical context
  12. PART II Prisons as artifacts in historical-cultural transition
  13. PART III Carceral topographies: the political economy of prison industrial growth and change
  14. Index