Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons - 9780367421489

Taylor & Francis

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and PrisonsStuckness and Confinement\nAuthor(s): Simon Turner, Steffen Jensen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367421489, 978-0367421489\nSynopsis\nReflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of stuckness. \n\nFrom a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters explore how life is lived in and across these sites of confinement by focusing on the tactics of everyday life, while being mindful of how forms of abjection are constitutive elements of these sites. Stuckness, from this inter-disciplinary perspective, is not simply a function of the spatial form it takes; we need to understand how temp.