Historical Geographies of Prisons
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9781317532613 |
| Open Library | OL21276393W |
| Total de publicaciones | 14 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2015 - 2015 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citada por | 13 |
| Factor de impacto | 0.357 |
| Índice h | 1 |
| Índice i10 | 1 |
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher
Cartographies of affects
In a context of expanding carceral nation states, significant government investments are made to erect new jails and prisons. On occasion, older sites of confinement and infliction of pain are decommissioned. Many debates ensue about the preservation of such sites. Little existing literature has examined how decommissioned jails and prisons are re-purposed through a process we refer to as “carceral retasking.” Based on a five-year qualitative stu…
Afterword
During the 1980s and 1990s, isolated and deindustrializing communities in the Northern Adirondack Mountains actively competed to attract new prison construction. In doing so they projected collective desires onto an expanding carceral economy while seeking deliverance from the abandonment of place by capital. Many of these communities were successful in their efforts to convince the State of New York to include them in expanded networks of prison…
The prison inside
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 struct…
Carceral retasking and the work of historical societies at decommissioned lock-ups, jails, and prisons in Ontario
In a context of expanding carceral nation states, significant government investments are made to erect new jails and prisons. On occasion, older sites of confinement and infliction of pain are decommissioned. Many debates ensue about the preservation of such sites. Little existing literature has examined how decommissioned jails and prisons are re-purposed through a process we refer to as “carceral retasking.” Based on a five-year qualitative stu…
Locating penal transportation
The U.S. landscape has always been home to a broad spectrum of intentional communities. Such has been the practice of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or “Shakers,” whose communities were established in early America as deliberately separate spheres where social and spiritual practices could be managed and sustained by distinctive patterns of architecture and land use. In many cases, Shaker sites have been adapted for…
From prisons to hyperpolicing
Unlike other major U.S. cities such as Milwaukee, Houston, Los Angeles, and Chicago, New York City’s reliance on policing to mediate the social dislocation engendered by the city’s neoliberal turn has conspicuously overshadowed its recourse to incarceration. In fact, since as early as 1991, both New York State’s prison population and New York City’s jail population have declined precipitously, with some isolated exceptions. This chapter examines …
Prisoners in Zion
For the visitor engaging with penal tourist sites, techniques of embodied performance are a method by which the carceral past is understood by contemporary audiences. Attending to the example of the Galleries of Justice – a museum in a former courthouse and jail in Nottingham, UK – this chapter explores how such performances rely on a boundary crossing as the visitor experiences a spatial dislocation from the “world” outside, to a performative re…
Little Siberia, star of the North
This chapter theorizes what I call “cartographies of affect” as an alternative way of remembering prison spaces and doing politics. First, I analyze a situation in which prison geography becomes historical through the process of remembrance when former women political prisoners from Córdoba (Argentina) created an artistic reconfiguration of space, when the prison from which they successfully escaped in the early 1970s closed in 2004 and later ope…
“Sores in the city”
Since the 1960s there has been a revival of the practice of solitary confinement in the U.S.A., not just as a mere component of the prison system but as an increasingly institutionalized long-term practice. Prevailing interpretations of this practice disconnect the post-1980s proliferation of penal isolation from its experimental use in the 1960s and 1970s as a tactic of behavior modification, and even more so from its nineteenth-century origins …
Doing time-travel
This chapter focuses on Black gangs that were the “tempest” caused by the carceral current which swept through the Chicago’s Black neighborhoods in the early 1960s. Carceral power or the mechanisms of prison punishment was the spatial backdrop against which Black gangs like the Almighty Black Stone Rangers emerged. Architectures of confinement, restrictions on Black movement, ubiquitous policing, few job options, and rising rates of Black male in…
From private to public
This chapter brings together the work of seven scholars from different parts of the world who draw upon archival sources to examine the decision-making processes involved in creating convict destinations and transporting prisoners to them. Using case studies from a broad range of penal colonies and military fortifications across global geographical settings – Southeast Asia, Latin America, Australia, Russia, and Japan – this chapter examines the …
Carceral acoustemologies
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 struct…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
"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 twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spac…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher
Historical Geographies of Prisons
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher
Cartographies of affects
In a context of expanding carceral nation states, significant government investments are made to erect new jails and prisons. On occasion, older sites of confinement and infliction of pain are decommissioned. Many debates ensue about the preservation of such sites. Little existing literature has examined how decommissioned jails and prisons are re-purposed through a process we refer to as “carceral retasking.” Based on a five-year qualitative stu…
Afterword
During the 1980s and 1990s, isolated and deindustrializing communities in the Northern Adirondack Mountains actively competed to attract new prison construction. In doing so they projected collective desires onto an expanding carceral economy while seeking deliverance from the abandonment of place by capital. Many of these communities were successful in their efforts to convince the State of New York to include them in expanded networks of prison…
The prison inside
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 struct…
Carceral retasking and the work of historical societies at decommissioned lock-ups, jails, and prisons in Ontario
In a context of expanding carceral nation states, significant government investments are made to erect new jails and prisons. On occasion, older sites of confinement and infliction of pain are decommissioned. Many debates ensue about the preservation of such sites. Little existing literature has examined how decommissioned jails and prisons are re-purposed through a process we refer to as “carceral retasking.” Based on a five-year qualitative stu…
Locating penal transportation
The U.S. landscape has always been home to a broad spectrum of intentional communities. Such has been the practice of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or “Shakers,” whose communities were established in early America as deliberately separate spheres where social and spiritual practices could be managed and sustained by distinctive patterns of architecture and land use. In many cases, Shaker sites have been adapted for…
From prisons to hyperpolicing
Unlike other major U.S. cities such as Milwaukee, Houston, Los Angeles, and Chicago, New York City’s reliance on policing to mediate the social dislocation engendered by the city’s neoliberal turn has conspicuously overshadowed its recourse to incarceration. In fact, since as early as 1991, both New York State’s prison population and New York City’s jail population have declined precipitously, with some isolated exceptions. This chapter examines …
Prisoners in Zion
For the visitor engaging with penal tourist sites, techniques of embodied performance are a method by which the carceral past is understood by contemporary audiences. Attending to the example of the Galleries of Justice – a museum in a former courthouse and jail in Nottingham, UK – this chapter explores how such performances rely on a boundary crossing as the visitor experiences a spatial dislocation from the “world” outside, to a performative re…
Little Siberia, star of the North
This chapter theorizes what I call “cartographies of affect” as an alternative way of remembering prison spaces and doing politics. First, I analyze a situation in which prison geography becomes historical through the process of remembrance when former women political prisoners from Córdoba (Argentina) created an artistic reconfiguration of space, when the prison from which they successfully escaped in the early 1970s closed in 2004 and later ope…
“Sores in the city”
Since the 1960s there has been a revival of the practice of solitary confinement in the U.S.A., not just as a mere component of the prison system but as an increasingly institutionalized long-term practice. Prevailing interpretations of this practice disconnect the post-1980s proliferation of penal isolation from its experimental use in the 1960s and 1970s as a tactic of behavior modification, and even more so from its nineteenth-century origins …
Doing time-travel
This chapter focuses on Black gangs that were the “tempest” caused by the carceral current which swept through the Chicago’s Black neighborhoods in the early 1960s. Carceral power or the mechanisms of prison punishment was the spatial backdrop against which Black gangs like the Almighty Black Stone Rangers emerged. Architectures of confinement, restrictions on Black movement, ubiquitous policing, few job options, and rising rates of Black male in…
From private to public
This chapter brings together the work of seven scholars from different parts of the world who draw upon archival sources to examine the decision-making processes involved in creating convict destinations and transporting prisoners to them. Using case studies from a broad range of penal colonies and military fortifications across global geographical settings – Southeast Asia, Latin America, Australia, Russia, and Japan – this chapter examines the …
Carceral acoustemologies
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 struct…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
"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 twentieth centuries. It examines individuals' experiences within various regulatory regimes and spac…
Historical Geographies of Prisons
The file associated with this article has a special embargo of 12 months from publication with the permission of the publisher