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This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration. Rather than focusing on the bricks and mortar of institutional spaces, this volume's inventive engagements in 'thinking through carcerality' touch on more elusive concepts of identity, memory and internal - as well as physical - walls and bars. Edited by two human geographers, and positioned within a criminological context, this original collection draws together essays by geographers and criminologists with a keen interest in carceral studies. The authors stretch their disciplinary boundaries; tackling a range of contemporary literatures to engage in new conversations and raising important questions within current debates on incarceration. A highly interdisciplinary project, this edited collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, social policy, and spatial carceral studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Co-production and Carceral Spatiality; Dominique Moran and Anna Schliehe.- PART I: Mapping Beyond Carceral Identities.- 2. Entangled Identities Inside and Outside; Lorraine van Blerk.- 3. An Extended Social Relational Approach to Learning Disability Incarcerated; Caitlin Gormley.- 4. Towards a Feminist Carceral Geography? Of female Offenders and Prison Spaces; Anna Schliehe.- PART II: Moving Beyond Carceral Walls.- 5. Illusions of Utopia: When Prison Architects (Reluctantly) Play Tetris; David Scheer and Colin Lorne.- 6. The Artistic 'Touch': Moving Beyond Carceral Boundaries through Art by Offenders; Jennifer Turner.- 7. Exploring 'betwixt and between' in a Prison Visitors' Centre and Beyond; Rebecca Foster.- PART III: Imagining Beyond Carceral Spaces.- 8. Tracing Memories in Border-Space; Clemens Bernardt, Bettina van Hoven and Paulus Huigen.- 9. Disavowing 'the' Prison; Sarah Armstrong and Andrew Jefferson.- 10. Conclusion: Reflections on Capturing the Carceral; Anna Schliehe and Dominique Moran
About the author
Dominique Moran is Reader in Carceral Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Anna K. Schliehe is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Summary
This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration. Rather than focusing on the bricks and mortar of institutional spaces, this volume’s inventive engagements in ‘thinking through carcerality’ touch on more elusive concepts of identity, memory and internal – as well as physical – walls and bars. Edited by two human geographers, and positioned within a criminological context, this original collection draws together essays by geographers and criminologists with a keen interest in carceral studies. The authors stretch their disciplinary boundaries; tackling a range of contemporary literatures to engage in new conversations and raising important questions within current debates on incarceration. A highly interdisciplinary project, this edited collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, social policy, and spatial carceral studies.
