Carceral Geography

Spaces and Practices of Incarceration

Bibliographic Data

ID8083286
AuthorsDominique Moran (0000-0002-6537-3591, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages194
Publication date2016-04-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCarceral Geography (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315570853
OpenAlexW4245129513
Open LibraryOL53964201M
ISBN9781315570853
LanguageEN
Citations received47

The ’punitive turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the ’carceral’ as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective

Criminology · Development geography · Economic geography · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Political science · Prison · Punitive damages · Social geography · Social science · Sociology · Time geography · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law · Earth Sciences · Emprisonnement · Imprisonment · Prisons · Science · Social aspects

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