Title: Isolation : places and practices of exclusion /
Authors: Strange, Carolyn, 1959-; Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Social isolation History.; Segregation History.; Imprisonment History.; Exile (Punishment) History.; Mentally ill Commitment and detention History.; Isolation (Hospital care) History.; Institutional care History.; Social Isolation; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Institutionalization history; Prisons history; Vulnerable Populations
Abstract: "This book examines legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries across a range of national and colonial contexts. In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation, from the asylum to the penitentiary, contributors examine less well-known sites, from 'leper villages' to refugee camps to Native reserves."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: an introductory essay / Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange -- Pt. I. Punitive isolation: geographies and subjectivities -- 2. The disappearance of the prison: an episode in the 'civilising process' / John Pratt -- 3. The politics of convict space: Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands / Clare Anderson -- 4. Beating the system: prison music and the politics of penal space / Ethan Blue -- 5. Segregating sexualities: the prison 'sex problem' in twentieth-century Canada and the United States / Elise Chenier -- Pt. II. Therapeutic and preventive isolation -- 6. The ruly and the unruly: isolation and inclusion in the management of the insane / Mark Finnane -- 7. From 'leper villages' to leprosaria: public health, nationalism and the culture of exclusion in Japan / Susan L. Burns -- 8. 'Houses of deposit' and the exclusion of women in turn-of-the-century Argentina / Kristin Ruggiero -- 9. Cultures of confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium / Alison Bashford -- Pt. III. Banishment, exile and exclusion -- 10. Patterns of exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992 / Harriet Deacon -- 11. Legal geographies of Aboriginal segregation in British Columbia: the making and unmaking of the Songhees reserve, 1850-1911 / Renisa Mawani -- 12. Palestinian refugee camps: reinscribing and contesting memory and space / Randa Farah -- 13. 'This is not a place for civilised people': isolation, enforced education and resistance among Spanish Gypsies / Paloma Gay Y. Blasco -- 14. Epilogue / Carolyn Strange.