The Global Prison Research Network is for scholars worldwide researching prisons and other institutions of confinement. The network is multi-disciplinary and open for researchers doing confinement studies on different levels – from the everyday life of specific institutions, to the wider political impact of penal policy changes.
News & Publications
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Call for abstracts: critical perpectives on penality in South East Asia
Please consider whether this is of interest and please circulate where relevant.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PENALITY IN SE ASIA
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS ...
Posted 8 Feb 2019, 02:43 by Andrew Jefferson
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New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities
Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan is the edited collection "New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities" (2018), edited by GPRN-member Matthew Maycock and Kate Hunt. The collection utilises recent advances in theories ...
Posted 17 Nov 2017, 07:39 by Julie W
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Program: Connecting Urban and Prison Ethnographies
Connecting Urban and Prison Ethnographies: Security and Confinement beyond the Limitations of Site GPRN-Securcit Roundtable Meeting | 2-3 November @ University of AmsterdamTime schedule: Day 1: Thursday 2 November ...
Posted 30 Oct 2017, 10:57 by Julie W
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New Members & Updates
Name | Research Region | Research Interests |
Ergün Cakal | Scandinavia, Sierra Leone, Myanmar, Israel-Palestine, Turkey, Australia | International law, criminal process and reform, human rights, psychological methods of violence, prison ethnography | Heather Anderson | Australia | Relationships between prisons and media, prisoners radio, community media and journalism. | Leyla Savloff | Argentina, Latin America, USA | Subjectivities, govermentality, politics of representation, recognition and redistribution. Integration. Visual Anthropology, urban ethnographies. | Basil Farraj | Israel/Palestine | Everyday life of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel, violence against them, and resistance against the incarcerating regime. Intersections of memory, resistance, and art. | Luisa Schneider | Sierra Leone | IPV and SGBV, its endurance, acceptance, mediation and response in the tensions between community and state law. |
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