Carceral Spaces

Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention

Dominique Moran, Nick Gill

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English

Routledge
11 October 2016

Ethnic studies; Sociology; Crime & criminology; Jurisprudence & general issues; Human geography

This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It combines work by geographers on 'mainstream' penal establishments where people are incarcerated by the prevailing legal system, with geographers' recent work on migrant detention centres, where irregular migrants and 'refused' asylum seekers are detained, ostensibly pending decisions on admittance or repatriation. Working in these contexts, the book's contributors investigate the geographical location and spatialities of institutions, the nature of spaces of incarceration and detention and experiences inside them, governmentality and prisoner agency, cultural geographies of penal spaces, and mobility in the carceral context. In dialogue with emergent and topical agendas in geography around mobility, space and agency, and in relation to international policy challenges such as the (dis)functionality of imprisonment and the search for alternatives to detention, this book presents a timely addition to emergent interdisciplinary scholarship that will prompt dialogue among those working in geography, criminology and prison sociology.

By: Nick Gill
Edited by: Dominique Moran
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138249349
ISBN 10: 1138249343
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 11 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, 1 Introduction, Part I: Mobility, Part II: Space and Agency, Index

Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham, UK, Nick Gill, University of Exeter, UK and Deirdre Conlon, Saint Peter's College, USA.

Reviews for Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention

For law and courts readers interested in migration and imprisonment from a human geography angle, this wide-ranging book has many interesting case study nuggets and a wealth of theoretically interesting angles to offer - Law & Politics Book Review