Carceral Spaces

'From Nick Gill's eye-opening discussion of the relationship between freedom and mobility, to Deirdre Conlon's fascinating Foucauldian analysis of the hunger strike, this book offers analyses that are empirically strong and theoretically innovative. From a criminological perspective, the book manages chapter by chapter to break new ground even in a familiar territory. You should read it.' Thomas Ugelvik, University of Oslo, Norway 'Engaging, thought-provoking and insightful, Carceral Spaces shines a much-needed light on contemporary practices of incarceration and detention. Required reading for anyone interested in confinement and the control of 'problematic' populations in a globalised world.' Alexandra Hall, University of York, UK and author of Borderwatch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control 'Prisons and immigration detention facilities ostensibly draw sharp divisions between who is inside and who is outside, who is good and who is bad, who is included and who is excluded from society. Contributors to this important volume undermine these dualisms with rich empirical evidence and strong theoretical elaboration that advance the burgeoning field of carceral geography, and offer fresh perspectives to migration studies and criminologists' study of punishment and society . Carceral Spaces gathers original research on prison regimes and immigration detention estates from an impressive array of sites. This comparative dimension illustrates the international unevenness of spatial practices of confinement. Despite their differences, all carceral regimes create and rely on carceral spaces and carceral mobilities. Indeed, close attention to the relationship between the state's power to confine and to forcibly move people is the book's greatest strength. Together, they challenge the idea that prison cells fully extinguish political agency and that mobility necessarily means total freedom. Instead, careful documentation and nuanced theorization of this relationship offers scholars and activists new understandings of state power. This knowledge hopefully can enable people who are confined and their allies to end carceral regimes and the harms they create'. Jenna Loyd, co-editor of Beyond Walls and Cages 'This excellent collection of original contributions focuses on a wide geographic area that takes in prisons, immigration detention centres and the places in between ... Carceral Spaces succeeds in putting forward a new and interesting series of observations and analyses on the 'paradox and juxtaposition of the ironies of mobility and migration' (see Mountz's chapter). It is a welcome addition to the theoretical and practical study of prisons and immigration detention centres.' Social and Cultural Geography