Isolation : places and practices of exclusion / / edited by Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783884003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-39112-9; 0-7451-2733-9; 1-134-39113-7; 1-280-07527-9; 0-203-40522-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in modern history ; ; 1
• Classificazione: 71.40
• Altri autori (Persone): StrangeCarolyn <1959->; BashfordAlison <1963->
• Disciplina: 302.5/45
• Soggetti: Social isolation - History; Segregation - History; Imprisonment - History; Exile (Punishment) - History; Mentally ill - Commitment and detention - History; Isolation (Hospital care) - History; Institutional care - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Isolation; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: an introductory essay: Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange; Part I: Punitive isolation: geographies and subjectivities; 2. The disappearance of the prison: an episode in the 'civilising process': John Pratt; 3. The politics of convict space: Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands: Clare Anderson; 4. Beating the system: prison music and the politics of penal space: Ethan Blue; 5. Segregating sexualities: the prison 'sex problem' in twentieth-century Canada and the United States: Elise ChenierPart II: Therapeutic and preventive isolation; 6. The ruly and the unruly: isolation and ; inclusion in the management of the insane: Mark Finnane; 7. From 'leper villages' to leprosaria: public health, nationalism and the culture of exclusion in Japan: Susan L.Burns; 8. 'Houses of deposit' and the exclusion of women in turn-of-the-century Argentina: Kristin Ruggiero; 9. Cultures of confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium: Alison Bashford; Part III: Banishment, exile and exclusion10. Patterns of exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992: Harriet Deacon; 11. Legal geographies of Aboriginal segregation in British Columbia: the making and unmaking of the Songhees reserve, 1850-1911: Renisa Mawani; 12. Palestinian refugee camps: reinscribing and contesting memory and space: Randa Farah; 13. 'This is not a place for civilised people': isolation, enforced education and resistance among Spanish Gypsies: Paloma Gay Y Blasco; 14. Epilogue: Carolyn Strange; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 per