Non-human, or more-than-human geographies of incarceration?
In this piece, the Times of India reports that twenty prisoners from Alipore jail attended an art workshop in front of cages of monkeys in Alipore zoo. Mantu Das, one of the prisoners serving a life...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Prison –‘Prison Architect’
‘The Gamer’s Hub’ recently previewed UK Introversion Software’s Prison Architect, on display at the Eurogamer Expo at Earl’s Court, London. It’s a game about building prisons: “In it, you’re handed a...
View ArticlePost-Doctoral Opportunities: Immigrant Detention, Prisons and Mobility
There are two Post-Doctoral Fellowships available at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Details are: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, “Home and away: Gender, nation, deportation.”...
View ArticleCall for Seminar Papers: Carceral Coordinates
Carceral geographers may be interested in the following call for papers for a seminar organised as part of The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2012 conference, which is taking place at...
View ArticleCarceral Geography sessions at AAG 2013
Thanks to a great response to the Call for Papers, Shaul Cohen and I have been able to put together three sessions on Carceral Geography for the Association of American Geographers conference in Los...
View ArticleGuardian.co.uk – How will the Pussy Riot band members fare in Russia’s...
“Russian prisoners’ lexicon is colourful and full of historical references. Soon, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the two members of the rock band Pussy Riot who are still imprisoned, will...
View ArticleAgeing in Prison: The ‘other life sentence’?
James Ridgway’s recent piece in Mother Jones brings clearly into view the challenges faced by elderly inmates facing lengthy periods of incarceration. His article opens by describing the situation of...
View ArticleMechanisms of confinement. A territorial approach to contemporary social and...
I was delighted to be invited by TerrFerme to join the scientific committee of their conference “Mechanisms of confinement. A territorial approach to contemporary social and political control“, to be...
View ArticleFunded PhD studentship: The effectiveness of immigration detention centres in...
The Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford is offering one collaborative ESRC + 3 studentship to commence in October 2013 co-funded by Her Majesty’s Prison Inspectorate entitled, ‘The...
View ArticleESRC PhD studentship: Technical Justice: Examining Video-Linking in...
ESRC PhD studentship: Technical Justice: Examining Video-Linking in Immigration Courts The College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Exeter is pleased to offer a PhD studentship...
View ArticleFunded PhD studentship: “The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations...
The School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester is offering a PhD studentship package for research on the Russian island of Sakhalin as part of a €1.5 million European Research Council...
View ArticleCall for Papers: RGS-IBG 2013 “exploring social reintegration and...
Agatha Herman and Kim Ward are organising a fascinating session at the RGS-IBG conference later this year, and have issued the following Call for Papers. The session highlights reintegration and...
View ArticleCarceral Geography at the AAG 2013
Thanks to a wonderful response to the Call for Papers, Shaul Cohen and I have been able to organise a number of sessions on Carceral Geography for the AAG 2013 in Los Angeles this April. The so-called...
View Article“Sites of Confinement” event at Liverpool John Moores University – March 2013
Many thanks to Monish Bhatia for bringing this upcoming event to my attention – sounds like a great opportunity to discuss some very current ideas. Sites of Confinement is taking place on 22nd March...
View ArticleReview of “Beyond Walls and Cages”
reblogged from Society and Space: Environment and Planning D This terrific book was released recently from the University of Georgia Press, as a part of its Geographies of Justice and Social...
View ArticleNew papers in carceral geography: space, privacy, affect and the carceral...
Over the past few months a number of new papers have emerged which may be of interest to carceral geographers. Written by both geographers and criminologists, they address a range of issues but share a...
View ArticleCarceral ‘Afterlives’– Punta Carretas Prison-Mall
A new book by Susana Draper, assistant professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, uses the phenomenon of the “opening” of prisons to begin a dialogue on conceptualizations of...
View ArticleBastoy Prison Island: “loss of liberty is all the punishment they suffer”
In today’s Guardian, Erwin James visits Norway’s Bastoy prison to look at conditions branded ‘cushy’ and ‘luxurious’, but which deliver the lowest recidivism rates in Europe. The report details the...
View ArticleStopping them ‘upping sticks and moving somewhere else’– restrictions on UK...
Speaking after a recent Commons evidence hearing, UK Justice Secretary Chris Grayling stated his intention to ban released prisoners from moving around the country when they leave jail to ensure they...
View ArticleNew book: “Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant...
‘Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‘ (Ashgate, 2013) edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. This book draws together the work of a new...
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