SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April
14-18, 2010
Geographies of Imprisonment: Penal Experience in Comparative Perspective
Organiser: Dominique Moran, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental
Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK ([log in to unmask])
Geographers are increasingly turning their attention to carceral spaces and
developing understandings of the penal experience, for example, in terms of;
internal spatial arrangements, flow control and the negotiation of prison
spaces; social formations and the nature of social interactions within and
beyond the penal boundary; ageing in prison; and prison as a gendered and
gendering institution. However, research has largely focussed geographically
on the global ‘North’. This session seeks to ‘decenter’ these debates and to
encourage a comparative perspective, encouraging the presentation of
research focussed on penal experiences both in the ‘North’ and beyond, but
also those which see the penal experience as a liminal space between ‘North’
and ‘South’, such as through the experience of migrant detention. Papers
which explore the following are particularly welcome:
• The penal experience, its conceptualisation and negotiation
• The lived experience of imprisonment; negotiation of penal spaces;
privacy and private spaces; understandings of confinement; penal trajectories
• Social interactions within, between and beyond carceral spaces
• Prisons as gendered and gendering institutions
• Cultural practices and penal confinement
Papers could also explore the discourses and practices surrounding the
introduction and operation of penal ‘norms’ within the global ‘South’.
Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to Dominique Moran at
[log in to unmask] by 9th October 2009.
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