Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia by Mitchel P. Roth, 2006
This comprehensive encyclopedia provides a historical overview of institutions and systems around the world, as well as penal theories, prisoner culture and life, and notable prisoners and personnel.
The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society by Norval Morris & David J. Rothman, 1995
A rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time.a rich history that reveals how our ideas of crime and practices of punishment have changed over time.
A vivid work of hidden history that spans the wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the conquest of the western territories, and the creation of an American empire in Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, American Purgatory reveals how "prison imperialism"—the deliberate use of prisons to control restive subjects.
A few photos from Monday's meeting "Musealization, Power and Colonialism", at Padrão dos Descobrimentos, where we hosted the winner of the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022, Sakiru Adebayo.
In a few hours, we'll be meeting at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos for the first session where we'll be joined by the 2022 Amílcar Cabral Prize winner, Sakiru Adebayo (University of British Columbia).
The prison and the museum, central institutions of modernity, will be this afternoon's guiding thread.
On Monday, all roads lead to the Padrão dos Descobrimentos!
At the meeting "Musealisation, Power and Colonialism", we will analyse and discuss two central institutions of our modernity: the prison and the museum.
The guest of honour is Sakiru Adebayo (University of British Columbia), winner of the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022.