Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g
Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g
Reihe: Transnational Criminal Justice
ISBN: 978-0-367-44408-2
Verlag: Routledge
This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.
The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners.
The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Professional
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: thinking with prisons in Africa
The carceral imprint
- Words, walls, and hierarchies: on some colonial legacies in the Burundian prison
- Improving daily life? Senegalese prisoners’ use of letters as an attempt to reform colonial prison (1930s)
- Confinement and development in Ethiopia: the uses of prison in public policies
- Mass expulsion as internal exclusion: police raids and the imprisonment of West African immigrants in Ghana, 1969–1972
Economies of value
- ‘As if they can squeeze you to death’: recollections of post-arrest journeys towards and into prison in South Africa
- The carceral impasse seen from the perspective of street youth in Burkina Faso
- The value of prison in South Africa: performing the prison experience beyond the prison
Tension within the dispensation of justice
- ‘I don’t steal, I don’t lie, I cut!’ The paradoxes of the imprisonment of women for female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso
- In search of justice in an uncertain world (South Africa)
- A justice that dare not speak its name? Amicable settlements in the commune of Abobo (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)
Transforming the prison
- The languages of prison reform: how to speak about punishment in a period of political transition (Tunisia, 2011–2019)
- Claiming rights in Yaoundé Central Prison
- The uses of pre-trial detention: a case study at the Maison Centrale in Conakry
- Prison and the politics of the ‘redemption script’: a view from Johannesburg, South Africa
- ‘Mother, you can’t leave us here’: thinking about incarcerated homosexuality. Interview with Ms Alice Nkom, Esq., lawyer at the Cameroon Bar
