Isolation : places and practices of exclusion

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Isolation : places and practices of exclusion

edited by Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford

(Routledge studies in modern history, 1)

Routledge, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion. The essays in this collection examine why isolation has been such a persistent strategy in liberal and non-liberal nations, in colonial and post-colonial states and why practices of exclusion proliferated over the modern period, precisely when legal and political concepts of 'freedom' were invented. 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

1. Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange Isolation and Exclusion in the Modern World: An Introductory Essay Punitive Isolation: Geographies and Subjectivities 2. John Pratt The Disappearance of the Prison: An Episode in the 'Civilising Process' 3. Clare Anderson The Politics of Convict Space: Penal Settlements and the Andaman Islands 4. Ethan Blue Beating the Systems: Prison Music and the Politics of Penal Space 5. Elise Chenier Segregating Sexualities: The Prison Sex Problem in Twentieth-Century Canada Therapeutic and Preventive Isolation 6. Mark Finnane The Ruly and the Unruly: Isolation and Inclusion in the Management of the Insane 7. Susan L. Burns From 'Leper Villages' to Leprosaria: Public Health, Nationalism and the Culture of Exclusion in Modern Japan 8. Kristen Ruggiero Houses of Deposit and the Exclusion of Women in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina 9. Alison Bashford Cultures of Confinement: Tuberculosis, Isolation and the Sanatorium Banishment, Exile and Exclusion 10. Harriet Deacon Patterns of Exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992 11. Renisa Mawani Legal Geographies of Aboriginal Segregation in British Columbia: The Making and Unmaking of the Songhees Reserve, 1850-1911 12. Randa Farah Palestinian Refugee Camps: Reinscribing and Contesting Memory and Space 13. Paloma Gay-y-Blasco 'This is Not a Place for Civilised People': Isolation, Enforced Education and Resistance among Spanish Gypsies 14. Carolyn Strange Epilogue

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