The Resource Cultures of confinement : a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors
Cultures of confinement : a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors
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- Summary
- Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation that altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 335 pages
- Contents
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- Prisons and prisoners in modernising Latin America (1800-1940) / Carlos Aguirre
- The shadow of rule : colonial power and modern punishment in Africa / Florence Bernault
- Regulation, reform and resistance in the Middle Eastern prison / Anthony Gorman
- India : the contested prison / David Arnold
- Sepoys, servants and settlers : convict transportation in the Indian Ocean, 1787-1945 / Clare Anderson
- South East Asia : reform and the colonial prison / Ian Brown
- The promise of repentance : the prison in modern China / Frank Dikt̲ter
- Envisioning the colonial prison / Clare Anderson and David Arnold
- Isbn
- 9781850658450
- Label
- Cultures of confinement : a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Title
- Cultures of confinement
- Title remainder
- a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation that altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.--
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- Dikötter, Frank
- Dewey number
- 365.9
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Brown, Ian
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- Prisons
- Prisons
- Prisons
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- Cultures of confinement : a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Prisons and prisoners in modernising Latin America (1800-1940) / Carlos Aguirre -- The shadow of rule : colonial power and modern punishment in Africa / Florence Bernault -- Regulation, reform and resistance in the Middle Eastern prison / Anthony Gorman -- India : the contested prison / David Arnold -- Sepoys, servants and settlers : convict transportation in the Indian Ocean, 1787-1945 / Clare Anderson -- South East Asia : reform and the colonial prison / Ian Brown -- The promise of repentance : the prison in modern China / Frank Dikt̲ter -- Envisioning the colonial prison / Clare Anderson and David Arnold
- Control code
- FIEb17609513
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9781850658450
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)156810168
- Label
- Cultures of confinement : a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Prisons and prisoners in modernising Latin America (1800-1940) / Carlos Aguirre -- The shadow of rule : colonial power and modern punishment in Africa / Florence Bernault -- Regulation, reform and resistance in the Middle Eastern prison / Anthony Gorman -- India : the contested prison / David Arnold -- Sepoys, servants and settlers : convict transportation in the Indian Ocean, 1787-1945 / Clare Anderson -- South East Asia : reform and the colonial prison / Ian Brown -- The promise of repentance : the prison in modern China / Frank Dikt̲ter -- Envisioning the colonial prison / Clare Anderson and David Arnold
- Control code
- FIEb17609513
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9781850658450
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)156810168
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