Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Dikötter, Frank
Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Dikötter, Frank

Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find...
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Author: Frank Dikötter
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Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Dikötter, Frank

Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

€149,33
Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by Dikötter, Frank

Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

€149,33
Author: Frank Dikötter
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation that altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.



Author: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.57w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780801446306
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Frank Dikötter is Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is the author of The Discourse of Race in Modern China; Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China; and Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China. Ian Brown is Professor of the Economic History of South East Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His most recent book is A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s.


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