Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past
Publication Date
Summer 6-1-2015
Description
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.
ISBN
978-1-13-885005-7
Keywords
prisons, historical geography, carceral geography
Disciplines
History | Human Geography | Other Geography | Place and Environment | Politics and Social Change | Race and Ethnicity | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
Publisher
Routledge
City
London
Department
Geography
Files
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Recommended Citation
Morin, Karen M. and Moran, Dominique, "Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past" (2015). Faculty Books. 8.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/books/8