The Carceral City
Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alistair Fraser (0000-0003-1157-4379, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Anna Schliehe (0000-0003-1993-149X, University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 587-606 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azaa087 |
| OpenAlex | W3118875343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 46 |
Once feted, Hong Kong has recently become a centre of civil unrest. In this paper, we situate these emergent politics through a case study of corruption and everyday life in Kowloon Walled City, a mainland Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong, which developed notoriety as a freestanding grey economy. Drawing from oral testimonies of police officers, triad members and local residents, we excavate the lived experience of confinement within this contested space. These accounts reconstruct the Walled City as a ‘quasi-carceral’ site of enclosure, a zone of colonial exceptionalism and a hybrid cultural space. Through this case study, we historicize current debates in carceral geography, humanize recent interventions in urban scholarship and analyse the shifting politics at the frontier of Chinese expansionism
Frontier · Geography · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Unrest · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
Fractured localities
Carceral and military geographies
Carceral Geographies/Geographien des Einschlusses
Remembering walls by map naming and planned attempts to eradicate and salvage a wall-less “walled city”
Ring up for an appointment”
Investigating trial spaces
Reinterpreting the Kowloon Walled City
The Production of Everyday Carcerality in State‐Led Redevelopment of Informal Settlement in Delhi, India
La frontière nationale comme dispositif carcéral. Justifications et matérialités en situation camerounaise
Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern
The Prison Boundary
Ghetto at the Center of the World
The Prisoner SocietyPower, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison
Hong Kong
Pervasive Punishment
Shadow Cities
The Social Order of the Underworld
Prisons and the Problem of Order
Non-state space
Towards a criminology of atmospheres
The second life of Kowloon Walled City
Deadly Symbiosis
Quality of life in a “high-rise lawless slum”
Hong Kong’s Dirty Little Secret
In‐Situ Marginalisation
Property and carceral spaces in Christiania, Copenhagen
Be Water, My Friend
Corruption and politics in Hong Kong and China
STATE‐Organized CRIME—The American Society of Criminology, 1988 Presidential Address
Telling small stories
The functional and spatial structure of the investment management industry
Carceral spaces in South Africa
On edge?’
The contamination of personal space
Careful control
Unlocking carceral atmospheres
Geographies of Detention and Imprisonment
The 21st-Century Metropolis
Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography
Extrastatecraft
The Disciplinary Society
The uneven geographies of the Olympic carceral
Alternative Capitalism and Creative Economy
Budgie smuggling or doing bird? Human-animal interactions in carceral space
Evolving enclave urbanism in China and its socio-spatial implications
Between Colonizers
Asylums
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |