Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons
Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of stuckness.
From a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters explore how life is lived in and across these sites of confinement by focusing on the tactics of everyday life, while being mindful of how forms of abjection are constitutive elements of these sites. Stuckness, from this inter-disciplinary perspective, is not simply a function of the spatial form it takes; we need to understand how temporality animates stuckness as an important dimension of confinement. Death, the ultimate temporal boundary, emerges as particularly significant in this regard. With case studies from Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Northern Australia, Rwanda, Ivory Coast and Nicaragua, the contributors focus on the empirical question of how structures of stuckness, confinement and forced mobility impact on the possibilities of making life.
Suggesting new ways of thinking about how temporality and spatiality intersect and overlap in the lives of people struggling to manage conditions of stuckness, Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, geography, criminology and philosophy. The chapters in this book originally published as a special issue of Ethnos.
Simon Turner is Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen. His work has focused on conflict and displacement in the African Great Lakes region, where he has studied hope, anxiety and rumours among refugees in and out of camps. He has also explored humanitarian governance and layered sovereignty in refugee camps.
Steffen Jensen holds a professorship at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University in Copenhagen as well as being Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture. He has published extensively on urban violence, policing, and criminal and violent networks in South Africa and the Philippines.
Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons
Stuckness and Confinement
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Contents
Andrew M. Jefferson, Simon Turner and Steffen Jensen
Michel Agier
Rose Lvgren and Simon Turner
Karen Waltorp and Steffen Jensen
Dennis Rodgers
Frdric Le Marcis
Andrew M. Jefferson and Lotte Buch Segal
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
The chapters in this book were originally published in Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: On Stuckness and Sites of Confinement
Andrew M. Jefferson, Simon Turner and Steffen Jensen
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 1 13
Chapter 2
Camps, Encampments, and Occupations: From the Heterotopia to the Urban Subject
Michel Agier
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 14 26
Chapter 3
Winning Life and the Discipline of Death at Iwawa Island
Rose Lvgren and Simon Turner
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 27 40
Chapter 4
Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Towns Prisontownship Circuit
Karen Waltorp and Steffen Jensen
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 41 55
Chapter 5
Urban Anti-politics and the Enigma of Revolt: Confinement, Segregation, and (the Lack of) Political Action in Contemporary Nicaragua
Dennis Rodgers
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 56 73
Chapter 6
Life in a Space of Necropolitics Toward an Economy of Value in Prisons
Frdric Le Marcis
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 74 95
Chapter 7
The Confines of Time: On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine
Andrew M. Jefferson and Lotte Buch Segal
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 96 112
Chapter 8
Driving Across Settler Late Liberalism: Indigenous Ghettos, Slums and Camps
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Ethnos, volume 84, issue 1 (February 2019) pp. 113 123
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Michel Agier is an Anthropologist, Director of Outstanding Research at the Institute for Development Research and Director of Studies at the cole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His research focuses on the relationships between human globalization, the conditions and places of exile, and the formation of new urban contexts.
Lotte Buch Segal is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her thematic orientation is iolence, kinship, subjectivity, affect, trauma, methodological challenges in doing ethnography in zones of conflict. Empirically her focus is, first, occupied Palestine, and secondly on developing an anthropological vocabulary to speak about secondary trauma among kin as well as staff working with ameliorating the psychological effects of torture. Between 2016 and 2019 she has been part of the French -American research endeavour IPEV- International Panel on Exiting Violence.
