1st Edition
Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons Stuckness and Confinement
1. Introduction: On Stuckness and Sites of Confinement
Andrew M. Jefferson, Simon Turner and Steffen Jensen
2. Camps, Encampments, and Occupations: From the Heterotopia to the Urban Subject
Michel Agier
3. ‘Winning Life’ and the Discipline of Death at Iwawa Island
Rose Løvgren and Simon Turner
4. Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Town’s Prison–township Circuit
Karen Waltorp and Steffen Jensen
5. Urban Anti-politics and the Enigma of Revolt: Confinement, Segregation, and (the Lack of) Political Action in Contemporary Nicaragua
Dennis Rodgers
6. Life in a Space of Necropolitics Toward an Economy of Value in Prisons
Frédéric Le Marcis
7. The Confines of Time – On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine
Andrew M. Jefferson and Lotte Buch Segal
8. Driving Across Settler Late Liberalism: Indigenous Ghettos, Slums and Camps
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Biography
Simon Turner is Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen. His work has focused on conflict and displacement in the African Great Lakes region, where he has studied hope, anxiety and rumours among refugees in and out of camps. He has also explored humanitarian governance and layered sovereignty in refugee camps.
Steffen Jensen holds a professorship at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University in Copenhagen as well as being Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture. He has published extensively on urban violence, policing, and criminal and violent networks in South Africa and the Philippines.
