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Carceral Spaces:Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention

Author: Nick Gill , Dominique Moran (Editor)

Publisher: ‎ Routledge

Edition: 1st edition

Publication Date: 2013-04-09

Language: English

Paperback: 262 pages

ISBN-10: 1409442683

ISBN-13: 9781409442684

Book Description

This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography:the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It combines work by geographers on 'mainstream' penal establishments where people are incarcerated by the prevailing legal system, with geographers' recent work on migrant detention centres, where irregular migrants and 'refused' asylum seekers are detained, ostensibly pending decisions on admittance or repatriation. Working in these contexts, the book's contributors investigate the geographical location and spatialities of institutions, the nature of spaces of incarceration and detention and experiences inside them, govementality and prisoner agency, cultural geographies of penal spaces, and mobility in the carceral context. In dialogue with emergent and topical agendas in geography around mobility, space and agency, and in relation to inteational policy challenges such as the (dis)functionality of imprisonment and the search for alteatives to detention, this book presents a timely addition to emergent interdisciplinary scholarship that will prompt dialogue among those working in geography, criminology and prison sociology.

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’From Nick Gill's eye-opening discussion of the relationship between freedom and mobility, to Deirdre Conlon's fascinating Foucauldian analysis of the hunger strike, this book offers analyses that are empirically strong and theoretically innovative. From a criminological perspective, the book manages chapter by chapter to break new ground even in a familiar territory. You should read it.’ Thomas Ugelvik, University of Oslo, Norway ’Engaging, thought-provoking and insightful, Carceral Spaces shines a much-needed light on contemporary practices of incarceration and detention. Required reading for anyone interested in confinement and the control of ’problematic’ populations in a globalised world.’ Alexandra Hall, University of York, UK and author of Borderwatch:Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control ’Prisons and immigration detention facilities ostensibly draw sharp divisions between who is inside and who is outside, who is good and who is bad, who is included and who is excluded from society. Contributors to this important volume undermine these dualisms with rich empirical evidence and strong theoretical elaboration that advance the burgeoning field of carceral geography, and offer fresh perspectives to migration studies and criminologists’ study of punishment and society . Carceral Spaces gathers original research on prison regimes and immigration detention estates from an impressive array of sites. This comparative dimension illustrates the inteational unevenness of spatial practices of confinement. Despite their differences, all carceral regimes create and rely on carceral spaces and carceral mobilities. Indeed, close attention to the relationship between the state’s power to confine and to forcibly move people is the book’s greatest strength. Together, they challenge the idea that prison cells fully extinguish political agency and that mobility necessarily means total freedom. Instead, careful documentation and nuanced theo

About the Author

Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham, UK, Nick Gill, University of Exeter, UK and Deirdre Conlon, Saint Peter's College, USA.

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Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention

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