Papua New Guinea's Last Place Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing...

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1. Verfasser: Reed, Adam (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2003]
Schlagworte:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Prison discipline > Papua New Guinea
Prison psychology > Papua New Guinea
Prisoners > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions
Prisons > Papua New Guinea
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Zusammenfassung:What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782381815
DOI:10.1515/9781782381815

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