Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons: Stuckness and Confinement

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps, and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention, and prisons with a focus on those who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of 'stuckness.' The book examines how life is lived in and across these sites of confinement by focusing on the tactics of everyday life, while also recognizing how forms of abjection are constitutive elements of these sites. With case studies from Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Northern Australia, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, and Nicaragua, the contributors explore how structures of stuckness, confinement, and forced mobility impact on the possibilities of 'making life.'

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 140 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps, and Prisons delves into the intricate relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention, and prisons, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of individuals who find themselves confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed. Drawing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including anthropology, criminology, geography, and philosophy, the book explores the daily lives of individuals within these sites of confinement, while also acknowledging the constitutive role of abjection in shaping these spaces.

Stuckness, understood from this interdisciplinary lens, extends beyond mere spatial form; it encompasses the temporal dimension as well. The contributors to this book examine the significance of time in the context of confinement, particularly focusing on the ultimate temporal boundary: death. Through case studies drawn from Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Northern Australia, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, and Nicaragua, the authors examine how structures of stuckness, confinement, and forced mobility impact the possibilities for individuals to create meaningful lives in these challenging environments.

By proposing new ways of thinking about the intersection and overlap of temporality and spatiality in the lives of those grappling with conditions of stuckness, Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps, and Prisons offers valuable insights to scholars in anthropology, geography, criminology, and philosophy. This book originally appeared as a special issue in Ethnos, a renowned journal in the field of anthropology.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 245 x 175 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032085494