ISBN:
0203405226
,
9780203405222
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 240 pages)
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in modern history 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Isolation
DDC:
302.545
Keywords:
Social isolation History
;
Segregation History
;
Imprisonment History
;
Exile (Punishment) History
;
Mentally ill Commitment and detention
;
History
;
Isolation (Hospital care) History
;
Institutional care History
;
Social isolation History
;
Segregation History
;
Imprisonment History
;
Exile (Punishment) History
;
Mentally ill Commitment and detention
;
History
;
Isolation (Hospital care) History
;
Institutional care History
;
Exile (Punishment) History
;
Mentally ill Commitment and detention
;
History
;
Isolation (Hospital care) History
;
Institutional care History
;
Segregation History
;
Imprisonment History
;
Social isolation History
;
Prisons History
;
Vulnerable Populations
;
Social Isolation
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Institutionalization History
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
Exile (Punishment)
;
Imprisonment
;
Institutional care
;
Isolation (Hospital care)
;
Mentally ill ; Commitment and detention
;
Segregation
;
Social isolation
;
History
;
Electronic books History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: an introductory essay / Alison Bashford and Carolyn StrangePunitive isolation: geographies and subjectivities -- The disappearance of the prison: an episode in the 'civilising process' / John Pratt -- The politics of convict space: Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands / Clare Anderson -- Beating the system: prison music and the politics of penal space / Ethan Blue -- Segregating sexualities: the prison 'sex problem' in twentieth-century Canada and the United States / Elise Chenier -- Therapeutic and preventive isolation -- The ruly and the unruly: isolation and inclusion in the management of the insane / Mark Finnane -- From 'leper villages' to leprosaria: public health, nationalism and the culture of exclusion in Japan / Susan L. Burns -- 'Houses of deposit' and the exclusion of women in turn-of-the-century Argentina / Kristin Ruggiero -- Cultures of confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium / Alison Bashford -- Banishment, exile and exclusion -- Patterns of exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992 / Harriet Deacon -- Legal geographies of Aboriginal segregation in British Columbia: the making and unmaking of the Songhees reserve, 1850-1911 / Renisa Mawani -- Palestinian refugee camps: reinscribing and contesting memory and space / Randa Farah -- 'This is not a place for civilised people': isolation, enforced education and resistance among Spanish Gypsies / Paloma Gay y Blasco -- Epilogue / Carolyn Strange.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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