Overview
- Provides a thorough and comprehensive overview of the phenomena of prison tourism
- Draws on cases of prisons and museums from around the world
- Offers a wide range of contributions from experts in criminology, cultural studies, history, and tourism
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship
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Carceral Retasking, Curation and Commodification of Punishment
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Meanings of Prison Life and Representations of Punishment in Tourism Sites
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About this book
With contributions from both well-renowned scholars and up-and-coming researchers in the field, from a wide variety of disciplines, the Handbook comprises an international collection at the cutting edge of Prison Tourism studies. Students and teachers from disciplines ranging from Criminology to Cultural Studies will find the text invaluable as the definitive work in the field of Prison Tourism.
Reviews
“Prisons are Other places where social justice and institutional hegemony is signified. Yet, former prisons as tourist attractions now offer a punishment gaze where heritage custodians take charge of a ‘penal spectatorship’. Incarceration transcends cultures and nations and, as such, (his)stories of our carceral past are played out within contemporary ‘prison tourism’. This seminal reference volume offers comprehensive and critical international accounts of our carceral memorialization and, consequently, is undoubtedly the ‘go-to’ text for scholarly enquires into prison tourism within the broader visitor economy.” (Dr Philip Stone, Executive Director: Institute for Dark Tourism Research, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
“The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism is an international collection on prison tourism that provides a timely global context in an extensive offering of forty-eight chapters from key researchers in the field. This major work extends theoretical discussions on the sociological and political implications of the phenomenon, historical legacies of state power and colonialism as well as analysis of curatorial, heritage and tourism management perspectives. In doing so the authors raise serious questions about the ongoing impacts of incarceration and the ways in which these former sites of imprisonment are interpreted, visited, promoted as destinations and ultimately understood in the present day.” (Professor Keir Reeves, Federation University Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Hodgkinson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester. Her research interests include crime-related dark tourism (in particular prison and Holocaust tourism), Holocaust representation and memorialization, the social construction of evil, forensic mental health, and homicide.
Justin Piché is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and Co-managing Editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Justin was awarded the 2012 Aurora Prize from the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada and the 2016 Young Researcher Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa.
Kevin Walby is Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Research Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is co-editor of National Security, Surveillance, and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective with R. Lippert, I. Warren and D. Palmer (forthcoming with Palgrave in 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism
Editors: Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56135-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56134-3Published: 07 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56135-0Published: 17 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 1045
Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Critical Criminology, Crime and Society, Organized Crime, Transnational Crime