Adam Reed

Papua New Guinea's Last Place (eBook, ePUB)

Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782381815
• Artikelnr.: 40805868

Autorenporträt

Adam Reed received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is currently Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Prologue
* The last place
* Under constraint
* Forgetting
* Sneeze
Chapter 1. Dark Place
* Out of sight
* Supervision
* 'Quasi-ethnography'
Chapter 2. Bus Stop
* 'Jailbird'
* Cowboy
* Raskal
* Bus stop
Chapter 3. Jeffrey's Flight
* Waiting
* Dreaming
* Emergency
Chapter 4. Place of Men
* Men's house
* Body of men/family of women
* Resistance?
Chapter 5. Place of God
* Conversion
* Haven
* Light
Chapter 6. Following White Men
* New
* Loose bodies
* Friends
* Mixmates
* Critique
* Counter-critique
Conclusion
* Homesickness
Glossary
Bibliography
Index