While much of the penal tourism literature focuses on historically significant and infamous
penitentiary, prison, and jail museums, such as Alcatraz and Eastern State Penitentiary in …

Literature on penal tourism has examined meanings of imprisonment and punishment
communicated in infamous American (eg Alcatraz, Eastern State Penitentiary), Australian …

The article examines male and female inmate graffiti in a decommissioned Australian jail, a
holding facility attached to the former Melbourne Magistrates Court. While male graffitists …

This article examines representations of prisoners and prison staff from 45 penal tourism
sites across Canada. Drawing from literature on representations of criminal justice, we …

This article presents a number of examples of prison inmate graffiti photographed by the
author in Australian decommissioned prisons. The images are examined with regard to …

Crisis, today, is everywhere, or so we are told. From financial crisis to the refugee crisis, from
the economic crisis to the crisis of representative democracy, and from the 'new urban …

This chapter theorizes what I call “cartographies of affect” as an alternative way of
remembering prison spaces and doing politics. First, I analyze a situation in which prison …

Our research team has conducted fieldwork at 45 Canadian penal history museums. Part of
our research design incorporates visual methods. We have taken photographs at each site …

In Northern Ireland's Long Kesh prison in the late 1980s and 1990s, prisoners from each of
the loyalist and republican groups painted highly politicized murals on the walls in their …

Tagging is a category of graffiti defined as a stylized signature, monogram, word, or name
marked on public and private physical spaces. It is an illegal action seen as a disfigurement …