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Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration

Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration

by Dominique Moran (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

    $160.47
Synopsis

The 'punitive turn' has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers. Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the 'carceral' as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 194
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07 Jan 2015
ISBN 10: 1409452344
ISBN 13: 9781409452348

Media Reviews
'While acknowledging its debt to the small number of scholars interested in spaces and practices of confinement over recent decades, Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration is written by the foremost expert currently working in the field. As a pioneer of carceral geography, Dominique Moran has provided a must-read introduction to the field. Erudite, thought-provoking and tremendously readable, this book will enrich studies of the prison within and beyond geography.'Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK'Carceral spaces are proliferating and Dominique Moran provides an indispensable toolkit to apprehend this development. Drawing on state of the art geographical concepts and contemporary debates she expertly defines and establishes the sub-discipline of carceral geography in this book. She also sets out the agenda for the coming years by raising indispensable questions about discipline, mobility and spectacle.' Nick Gill, Exeter University, UK
Author Bio
Dominique Moran is Reader in Carceral Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.