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ISBN: 9780367444082 9780367767891 9781003009627 100300962X 9781000381511 100038151X 9781000381498 1000381498 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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"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"--
Criminology. Victimology --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Africa --- Imprisonment --- Justice, Administration of --- Prisons --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Prison-industrial complex --- Administration of justice --- Law --- Courts --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Detention of persons --- Punishment --- School-to-prison pipeline --- Law and legislation
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ISBN: 9791036204975 9791036204999 Year: 2022 Publisher: Lyon : ENS Éditions,
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Depuis l’ouvrage de Florence Bernault consacré à l’histoire des prisons africaines, les sciences sociales francophones sont restées singulièrement silencieuses sur les enjeux carcéraux en Afrique. Le présent volume entend combler ce manque à partir de recherches ethnographiques – entretiens, enquêtes de terrain, consultation d’archives – conduites par une équipe pluridisciplinaire dans dix pays du continent, en Afrique francophone et anglophone : Tunisie, Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Éthiopie, Burundi, Cameroun et Afrique du Sud. Cet ouvrage permet de rompre avec les images archétypales et lacunaires souvent véhiculées sur les prisons du continent, et propose une lecture nuancée de l’expérience carcérale articulée aux représentations de la justice. Il étudie le phénomène carcéral en Afrique dans une perspective historique autant qu’il s’intéresse aux enjeux contemporains de la réforme carcérale. Enfin, il invite à saisir l’empreinte de la prison au-delà de ses murs. Il intéressera les chercheurs, les étudiants ainsi que la pluralité des acteurs impliqués dans le travail carcéral et dans les débats sur les réformes pénitentiaires et le sens de la prison. Since Florence Bernault’s book on the history of African prisons, the French-speaking social sciences have remained singularly silent on the issues of prison in Africa. The aim of this book is to fill that gap, working from ethnographic research (interviews, field surveys, consultation of archives) conducted by a multidisciplinary team in ten countries around French- and English-speaking Africa: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Burundi, and South Africa. Breaking with the archetypal and incomplete images often conveyed about the continent’s prisons, this book offers a nuanced reading of the prison experience formulated in terms of representations of justice. By presenting the prison phenomenon in a historical context, it opens the issue of…
Prisons --- Justice --- Anthropologie --- Prisoners --- Prisonniers --- Comparative law --- Droit comparé --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Droit --- Criminology & Penology --- prison --- justice --- Afrique --- réforme --- enfermement --- Africa --- reform --- imprisonment
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