Overview
- Provides an interdisciplinary and transnational approach to legacy of convict transportation
- Explores how the penal colony evokes specific ideas of space & identity via documentary and fictional representation
- Focusses on media that have previously attracted little critical attention & provides methodological tools
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Reporting the Penal Colony
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Exploring the Penal Colony
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Framing and Reframing the Colonial Prison
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Creative Encounters in and beyond the Penal Colony
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Reviews
"At the confluence of history, geography, literature, heritage and art practice, this volume offers an important and salutary contribution to the dark subject of the penal colony. Taken together, the chapters build an expansive springboard for future research, as contributors illuminate the spaces, practices and legacies of an idea whose sly and sprawling reach continues to influence our institutions and our lives." (– Dr Alexis Bergantz, RMIT University, Australia; winner of the 2022 NSW Premier's Australian History Award)
"In its examination of the multiple ways in which penal colonies have been represented, imagined and reimagined, this expertly woven collection, broad in its geographical and methodological scope, demonstrates that the penal colony should not be easily dismissed as a symptom of a bygone colonial past. Situating contemporary modes of extraterritorial detention within a broader history of deportation and penal transportation, this book is essential reading in understanding the legacies of the penal colony and how they continue to define modern carceral practices and their often neo-colonial, racist underpinnings." (– Dr Jonathan Lewis, Bangor University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published on a range of subjects, including travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial and world literature, and the memorialisation of slavery.
Katharina Massing is Senior Kecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Course Leader of the MA in Museum and Heritage Development programme.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Framing the Penal Colony
Book Subtitle: Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation
Editors: Sophie Fuggle, Charles Forsdick, Katharina Massing
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19396-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19395-8Published: 21 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19398-9Published: 22 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19396-5Published: 20 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 332
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime and the Media, Prison and Punishment, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Cultural Heritage, Audio-Visual Culture, Imperialism and Colonialism