Editors:
- Focusses uniquely on the prison cell, to emphasize its importance in the embodied and everyday experiences of incarceration
- Brings together contributions from Criminology, Geography, Cultural Studies, and Architecture and Design
- Includes a chapter written by current prisoners
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Anyone thrown into a prison cell begins to live in the shadow of madness, according to the writer and imprisoned revolutionary, Victor Serge. This vivid collection of essays challenges the reader to think into these shadows and search for new meanings and fresh understanding of incarceration. The editors introduce a fascinating analogy and disturbing sense of scale by likening the prison cell to the microscopic biological cell. Just as prison cells “symbolically represent the monolithic values of the prison”, so arethey the living tissue of carceral space, literally “the containers of prison life”. International in scope and enlivened by a diversity of voices, including those of prisoners, this impressively edited collection is a major and innovative contribution to studies of incarceration. Read it, borrow it, share it. Bring light to the shadow.” (Dr Rod Earle, School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, The Open University)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Jennifer Turner
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School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Victoria Knight
About the editors
Jennifer Turner is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research is concerned with spaces, practices, and representations of incarceration, past and present. She is the author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (Routledge, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Prison Cell
Book Subtitle: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration
Editors: Jennifer Turner, Victoria Knight
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39911-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39910-8Published: 09 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39913-9Published: 09 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39911-5Published: 08 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Victimology, Human Rights and Crime, Cultural Geography