Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World
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2021 - 2022
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This conference and colloquium series seeks to advance understanding of incarceration as a global phenomenon by examining histories of carceral practices in Asia, the Near East, Africa and South America and decentering the Western and nation-state centric framework of prison studies. Our inter- and multi-disciplinary approach to carceral studies will offer much needed critical and comparative perspectives on the past, present and future of imprisonment in a globalized world and open up connections to and comparisons with studies of mass incarceration in the U.S.
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