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Introduction : thinking with prisons in Africa

hal.structure.identifierUniversity of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg] [WITS]
dc.contributor.authorHORNBERGER, Julia
hal.structure.identifierRecherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes [TransVIHMI]
hal.structure.identifierTriangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique [TRIANGLE]
dc.contributor.authorLE MARCIS, Frédéric
hal.structure.identifierEnvironnement, Ville, Société [EVS]
dc.contributor.authorMORELLE, Marie
dc.contributor.editorMorelle, Marie
dc.contributor.editorLe Marcis, Frédéric
dc.contributor.editorHornberger, Julia
dc.date.created2021
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.isbn9780367767891
dc.description.abstractEnThis 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.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.source.titleConfinement, punishment and prisons in Africa
dc.subjectAfrique
dc.subjectBurundi
dc.subjectSénégal
dc.subjectEthiopie
dc.subjectBurkina Faso
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectAfrique du Sud
dc.subjectCôte d'Ivoire
dc.subjectCameroun
dc.subjectGuinée
dc.subjectTunisie
dc.titleIntroduction : thinking with prisons in Africa
dc.typeChapitre d'ouvrage
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003009627
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie
bordeaux.pageXII-XXXIV
bordeaux.title.proceedingConfinement, punishment and prisons in Africa
hal.identifierhal-03310657
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceNon spécifiée
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-03310657v1
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