This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.
This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.
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.
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Introduction: thinking with prisons in Africa The carceral imprint 1. Words, walls, and hierarchies: on some colonial legacies in the Burundian prison 2. Improving daily life? Senegalese prisoners use of letters as an attempt to reform colonial prison (1930s) 3. Confinement and development in Ethiopia: the uses of prison in public policies 4. Mass expulsion as internal exclusion: police raids and the imprisonment of West African immigrants in Ghana, 1969 1972 Economies of value 5. `As if they can squeeze you to death : recollections of post-arrest journeys towards and into prison in South Africa 6. The carceral impasse seen from the perspective of street youth in Burkina Faso 7. The value of prison in South Africa: performing the prison experience beyond the prison Tension within the dispensation of justice 8. `I don t steal, I don t lie, I cut! The paradoxes of the imprisonment of women for female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso 9. In search of justice in an uncertain world (South Africa) 10. A justice that dare not speak its name? Amicable settlements in the commune of Abobo (Abidjan, Côte d Ivoire) Transforming the prison 11. The languages of prison reform: how to speak about punishment in a period of political transition (Tunisia, 2011 2019) 12. Claiming rights in Yaoundé Central Prison 13. The uses of pre-trial detention: a case study at the Maison Centrale in Conakry 14. Prison and the politics of the `redemption script : a view from Johannesburg, South Africa 15. `Mother, you can t leave us here : thinking about incarcerated homosexuality. Interview with Ms Alice Nkom, Esq., lawyer at the Cameroon Bar
Introduction: thinking with prisons in Africa The carceral imprint 1. Words, walls, and hierarchies: on some colonial legacies in the Burundian prison 2. Improving daily life? Senegalese prisoners use of letters as an attempt to reform colonial prison (1930s) 3. Confinement and development in Ethiopia: the uses of prison in public policies 4. Mass expulsion as internal exclusion: police raids and the imprisonment of West African immigrants in Ghana, 1969 1972 Economies of value 5. `As if they can squeeze you to death : recollections of post-arrest journeys towards and into prison in South Africa 6. The carceral impasse seen from the perspective of street youth in Burkina Faso 7. The value of prison in South Africa: performing the prison experience beyond the prison Tension within the dispensation of justice 8. `I don t steal, I don t lie, I cut! The paradoxes of the imprisonment of women for female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso 9. In search of justice in an uncertain world (South Africa) 10. A justice that dare not speak its name? Amicable settlements in the commune of Abobo (Abidjan, Côte d Ivoire) Transforming the prison 11. The languages of prison reform: how to speak about punishment in a period of political transition (Tunisia, 2011 2019) 12. Claiming rights in Yaoundé Central Prison 13. The uses of pre-trial detention: a case study at the Maison Centrale in Conakry 14. Prison and the politics of the `redemption script : a view from Johannesburg, South Africa 15. `Mother, you can t leave us here : thinking about incarcerated homosexuality. Interview with Ms Alice Nkom, Esq., lawyer at the Cameroon Bar
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