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Capture and Control: Geographies of Detention and Incarceration
- Author(s):
- Richard Nisa (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- History
- Item Type:
- Syllabus
- Tag(s):
- geography, carceral studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6WP7R
- Abstract:
- Modern democratic states often rely on practices of detention and incarceration in order to demonstrate (and increasingly, to circumvent) the power of the rule of law. As a result, international and domestic detention spaces like refugee camps, jails and for-profit prisons, war prisons, black sites, migrant detention islands, border checkpoints, and protest camps are utilized in an ever-expanding number of spatial, legal, and political contexts. Through close reading, focused class discussion, writing, and interacting with assorted primary sources, we will explore these spaces and engage in a detailed historical and theoretical investigation of the complex and often-contradictory processes that produce them.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
commons-capture.pdf