Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-76789-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: Transnational Criminal Justice

This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa.

The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners.

The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morelle, Marie

Le Marcis, Frédéric

Hornberger, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: thinking with prisons in Africa

The carceral imprint

- Words, walls, and hierarchies: on some colonial legacies in the Burundian prison

- Improving daily life? Senegalese prisoners’ use of letters as an attempt to reform colonial prison (1930s)

- Confinement and development in Ethiopia: the uses of prison in public policies

- Mass expulsion as internal exclusion: police raids and the imprisonment of West African immigrants in Ghana, 1969–1972

Economies of value

- ‘As if they can squeeze you to death’: recollections of post-arrest journeys towards and into prison in South Africa

- The carceral impasse seen from the perspective of street youth in Burkina Faso

- The value of prison in South Africa: performing the prison experience beyond the prison

Tension within the dispensation of justice

- ‘I don’t steal, I don’t lie, I cut!’ The paradoxes of the imprisonment of women for female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso

- In search of justice in an uncertain world (South Africa)

- A justice that dare not speak its name? Amicable settlements in the commune of Abobo (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)

Transforming the prison

- The languages of prison reform: how to speak about punishment in a period of political transition (Tunisia, 2011–2019)

- Claiming rights in Yaoundé Central Prison

- The uses of pre-trial detention: a case study at the Maison Centrale in Conakry

- Prison and the politics of the ‘redemption script’: a view from Johannesburg, South Africa

- ‘Mother, you can’t leave us here’: thinking about incarcerated homosexuality. Interview with Ms Alice Nkom, Esq., lawyer at the Cameroon Bar

Über Autor(innen)

Marie Morelle is Professor at Lyon 2 University, France.

Frédéric Le Marcis is a professor of social anthropology at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

Julia Hornberger is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.