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Lundi 21 mai 2018
« Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin’s gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies builds on specific regional archives and literatures to write the first global history of penal transportation. The essays explore the idea of penal transportation as an engine of global change, in which political repression and forced labour combined to produce long-term impacts on economy, society and identity. They investigate the varied and interconnected routes convicts took to penal sites across the world, and the relationship of these convict flows to other forms of punishment, unfree labour, military service and indigenous incarceration. They also explore the lived worlds of convicts, including work, culture, religion and intimacy, and convict experience and »
Table of contents
1. Introduction : A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies (Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK)
2. The Portuguese Empire, 1100-1932 (Tim Coates, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
3. The Spanish Empire, 1500 to 1898 (Christian G. De Vito, University of Leicester, UK)
4. The Scandinavian Empires in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Johan Heinsen, Aalborg University, Denmark)
5. The French Empire, 1542-1976 (Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions, CESDIP, France)
6. The Dutch East India Company in Asia, 1595-1811 (Matthias van Rossum, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands)
7. Transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1875 (Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, University of Tasmania, Australia)
8. British India, 1789-1939 (Clare Anderson, University of Leicester, UK)
9. Post-colonial Latin America since 1800 (Ryan C. Edwards, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
10. Russia and the Soviet Union from the 19th to the 21st Century (Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham, UK and Judith Pallot, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK)
11. Japan in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Minako Sakata, Tomakomai Komazawa University, Japan)
12. Modern Europe, 1750-1950 (Mary Gibson, CUNY, USA and Ilaria Poerio, University of Reading, UK)
Epilogue : In Carceral Motion : Disposals of Life and Labour (Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research, New York, USA)
Bibliography
Index
Page créée le lundi 21 mai 2018, par Dominique Taurisson-Mouret.
