The study of penal practices in colonised parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Indian
Ocean and the Caribbean has recently witnessed a significant shift. The first generation of …

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King
Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings …

This is a pioneering, multi-empire account of the relationship between the politics of imperial
repression and the economic structures of European colonies between the two World Wars …

In Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social
reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood …

" Some of the world's first refugee camps and concentration camps appeared in the British
Empire in the late 19th century. Famine camps detained emaciated refugees and billeted …

How differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitions In the wake
of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together …

Prisons have undoubtedly changed over the years, as have penal practices in general,
though more so in some countries than others. Prisons and prison systems have long been …

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use and over-use from around the world Jessica Jacobson Catherine Heard Helen Fair …

In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide
help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might …

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and
postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and …