What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines these and other questions relating to the role of absence and presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce ideas about space, society, and belonging. "The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence "contains six empirically-focussed chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around the world. These studies examine how particular groups relationships with places...
What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines these and other que...
This book explores the idea of the prison boundary, identifying where it is located, which processes and performances help construct and animate it, and who takes part in them. Although the relationship between prison and non-prison has garnered academic interest from various disciplines in the last decade, the cultural performance of the boundary has been largely ignored. This book adds to the field by exploring the complexity of the material and symbolic connections that exist between society and carceral space. Drawing on a range of cultural examples including governmental legislation,...
This book explores the idea of the prison boundary, identifying where it is located, which processes and performances help construct and animate it, a...
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move.
At first glance, the words carceral and mobilities seem to sit uneasily together. This book challenges the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of movement. Carceral Mobilities brings together contributions that speak to contemporary debates across carceral studies and mobilities research, offering fresh insights to both areas by...
Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of peo...
