Description: Further DetailsTitle: Carceral AfterlivesCondition: NewSubtitle: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial UgandaEAN: 9780821424773ISBN: 9780821424773Publisher: Ohio University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/05/2022Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Katherine Bruce-LockhartGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: New African HistoriesDescription: Drawing upon social history, political history, and critical prison studies, this book analyzes how prisons and other instruments of colonial punishment endured after independence and challenges their continued existence.In Carceral Afterlives, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart traces the politics, practices, and lived experiences of incarceration in postcolonial Uganda, focusing on the period between independence in 1962 and the beginning of Yoweri Museveni’s presidency in 1986. During these decades, Ugandans experienced multiple changes of government, widespread state violence, and war, all of which affected the government’s approach to punishment. Bruce-Lockhart analyzes the relationship between the prison system and other sites of confinement—including informal detention spaces known as “safe houses” and wartime camps—and considers other forms of punishment, such as public executions and “disappearance” by state paramilitary organizations. Through archival and personal collections, interviews with Ugandans who lived through these decades, and a range of media sources and memoirs, Bruce-Lockhart examines how carceral systems were imagined and experienced by Ugandans held within, working for, or impacted by them. She shows how Uganda’s postcolonial leaders, especially Milton Obote and Idi Amin, attempted to harness the symbolic, material, and coercive power of prisons in the pursuit of a range of political agendas. She also examines the day-to-day realities of penal spaces and public perceptions of punishment by tracing the experiences of Ugandans who were incarcerated, their family members and friends, prison officers, and other government employees. Furthermore, she shows how the carceral arena was an important site of dissent, examining how those inside and outside of prisons and other spaces of captivity challenged the state’s violent punitive tactics. Using Uganda as a case study, Carceral Afterlives emphasizes how prisons and the wider use of confinement—both as a punishment and as a vehicle for other modes of punishment—remain central to state power in the Global South and North. While scholars have closely analyzed the prison’s expansion through colonial rule and the rise of mass incarceration in the United States, they have largely taken for granted its postcolonial persistence. In contrast, Bruce-Lockhart demonstrates how the prison’s transition from a colonial to a postcolonial institution explains its ubiquity and reveals ways to critique and challenge its ongoing existence. The book thus explores broader questions about the unfinished work of decolonization, the relationship between incarceration and struggles for freedom, and the prison’s enduring yet increasingly contested place in our global institutional landscape.ISBN-10: 0821424777Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics, HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Carceral Afterlives
Title: Carceral Afterlives
Subtitle: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda
EAN: 9780821424773
ISBN: 9780821424773
Release Date: 07/05/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
ISBN-10: 0821424777
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 302 Pages
Publication Name: Carceral Afterlives : Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda
Language: English
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Penology, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa / East
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: New African Histories Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
