Carceral acoustemologies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20042019
AutoresKatie Hemsworth (0000-0001-7729-2740, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Páginas17-33
Data de publicação2015-06-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoHistorical Geographies of Prisons (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315724997-2
OpenAlexW2995645542
ISBN9781315724997
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas1

Focusing on the history of Canada’s first penitentiary, this chapter examines the crucial, though under-recognized, role of sound in the way carceral space is constructed, modified, and remembered. Drawing from archival materials related to Kingston Penitentiary, it first outlines the silent system as spatial articulation of sonic power in the penitentiary’s first century, from 1835 to 1932. It then traces technological change in the sonic structuring of prisons, and the resulting implications of sound for contemporary prison populations. It concludes with a call for historical geographers to take up sonic methods as a way of engaging more fully with usable carceral pasts

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