Isolation: Places And Practices Of Exclusion (routledge Studies In Modern History)
by Alison Bashford /
2003 / English / PDF
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This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies
of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries
in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of
this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion.
The essays in this collection examine why isolation has been such a
persistent strategy in liberal and non-liberal nations, in colonial
and post-colonial states and why practices of exclusion
proliferated over the modern period, precisely when legal and
political concepts of 'freedom' were invented. In addition to
offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of
isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary,
This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies
of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries
in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of
this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion.
The essays in this collection examine why isolation has been such a
persistent strategy in liberal and non-liberal nations, in colonial
and post-colonial states and why practices of exclusion
proliferated over the modern period, precisely when legal and
political concepts of 'freedom' were invented. In addition to
offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of
isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary,Isolation
Isolation
looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages to refugee
camps to Native reserves.
looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages to refugee
camps to Native reserves.