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Prisoners’ Bodies - Oisín Wall

Prisoners’ Bodies

Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985

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Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2024
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2295-4 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
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Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.
In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded – there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next decade and a half, and whose legacy is still visible today.

Prisoners’ Bodies is the first book on the history of the prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of prisoners’ organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement. Finally, the book examines the experiences of more than twenty individuals in prison, setting their activism within the context of their lives and their politics. Their stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoners’ publications, and archival material.

Prisoners’ Bodies seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons.

Oisín Wall is lecturer at University College Cork.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.11.2024
Reihe/Serie States, People, and the History of Social Change
Zusatzinfo 2 photos, 1 table
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 0-2280-2295-9 / 0228022959
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-2295-4 / 9780228022954
Zustand Neuware
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