Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion

by Strange, Carolyn; Bashford, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780203405222
• ISBN10: 0203405226
• Copyright: 2004-06-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary, Isolation looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages to refugee camps to Native reserves.

Table of Contents

Isolation and Exclusion in the Modern World: An Introductory Essay

Punitive Isolation: Geographies and Subjectivities

The Disappearance of the Prison: An Episode in the 'Civilising Process'

The Politics of Convict Space: Penal Settlements and the Andaman Islands

Beating the Systems: Prison Music and the Politics of Penal Space

Segregating Sexualities: The Prison Sex Problem in Twentieth-Century Canada

Therapeutic and Preventive Isolation

The Ruly and the Unruly: Isolation and Inclusion in the Management of the Insane

From 'Leper Villages' to Leprosaria: Public Health, Nationalism and the Culture of Exclusion in Modern Japan

Houses of Deposit and the Exclusion of Women in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina

Cultures of Confinement: Tuberculosis, Isolation and the Sanatorium

Banishment, Exile and Exclusion

Patterns of Exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992

Legal Geographies of Aboriginal Segregation in British Columbia: The Making and Unmaking of the Songhees Reserve, 1850-1911

Palestinian Refugee Camps: Reinscribing and Contesting Memory and Space

'This is Not a Place for Civilised People': Isolation, Enforced Education and Resistance among Spanish Gypsies

Carolyn Strange

Epilogue

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