The Carceral Network in Ireland
ISBN:
978-3-03-042186-1
Auflage:
1st ed. 2020
Verlag:
Institut Universitaire de France, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.06.2021
Herausgeber:
Reihe:
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
285
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This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, the methodological approaches adopted across this book range from the historical and archival to the sociological, political, and literary. This edited collection touches on topics such as industrial schools, Magdalen laundries, struggles and resistance in prisons both North and South, Direct Provision, and the ways in which prison experiences have been represented in literature, cinema, and the arts. It sketches out an uncomfortable picture of the techniques for policing bodies deployed in Ireland for over a century. This innovative study seeks to establish a link between Ireland’s inhumane treatment of women and children, of prisoners, and of asylum seekers today, and to expose and pinpoint modes of resistance to these situations.
Schlagwörter
human rights
British Politics
peace
incarceration
prison policy
British and Irish Literature
prison reform
prison architecture
gender and power
irish prisons
history of ireland
political prisoners
Irish literature
prison narratives
industrial schools
prison development
prison photography
conflict in ireland
Biografische Anmerkung
Fiona McCann is Professor of Postcolonial Literature at the Université de Lille, France. She has published widely on contemporary Irish, South African, and Zimbabwean literature and she has a particular interest in writing by political prisoners in the English-speaking postcolonial world.
