Historical Geographies of Prisons

Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past

Karen Morin, Dominique Moran (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-85005-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Karen M. Morin is a professor of geography currently serving as Associate Provost at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA. Dominique Moran is Reader in Human and Carceral Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Birmingham, UK.

1. Introduction: Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past I: On the Inside: Carceral Techniques in Historical Context 2. Carceral Acoustemologies: Historical Geographies of Sound in a Canadian prison 3. The Prison Inside: A Genealogy of Solitary Confinement as Counter-Resistance 4. ‘Sores in the City’: A Genealogy of the Almighty Black P. Stone Rangers II: Prisons as Artefacts in Historical-Cultural Transition 5. Doing Time Travel: Performing Past and Present at the Prison Museum 6. Carceral Retasking and the Work of Historical Societies at Decommissioned Lock-ups, Jails, and Prisons in Ontario 7. Prisoners in Zion: Shaker Sites as Foundations for Later Communities of Incarceration 8. Cartographies of Affect: Undoing the Prison in Collective Art by Women Prisoners III: Carceral Topographies: The Political-Economy of Prison Industrial Growth and Change 9. Locating Penal Transportation: Punishment, Space, and Place ca. 1750-1900 10. Little Siberia, Star of the North: The Political Economy of Prison Dreams in the Adirondacks 11. From Prisons to Hyperpolicing: Neoliberalism, Carcerality, and Regulative Geographies 12. From Private to Public: Examining the Political Economy of Wisconsin’s Private Prison Experiment13. Afterword

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Historical Geography
Zusatzinfo	5 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-85005-5 / 1138850055
ISBN-13	978-1-138-85005-7 / 9781138850057
Zustand	Neuware