Bibliograph

Cultures of confinement, a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors

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Cultures of confinement, a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cultures of confinement

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

156810168

Responsibility statement

Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, editors

Sub title

a history of the prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America

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.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of 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

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