Carceral Worlds - Legacies, Textures and Futures

A timely interdisciplinary reflection on the practices, performances, imaginaries, and experiences of confinement and carcerality in our globalized present - featuring global case studies.

About the author

Hanneke Stuit is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is author of Ubuntu Strategies: Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture (2016) and co-editor of Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present: Spaces, Mobilities, Aesthetics (2016).Jennifer Turner is Professor for Cultural and Political Geography at Universität Trier, Germany. Jennifer's work is concerned with spaces, practices, and representations of incarceration, past and present. Jennifer is author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (2017) and The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration (2020).Julienne Weegels is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-organizer of the Global Prisons Research Network and convenor of the Anthropology of Confinement network.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hanneke Stuit (Editor), Jennifer Turner (Editor), Julienne Weegels (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350298101
• ISBN: 978-1-350-29810-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Political control and freedoms