The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism / edited by Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Jacqueline Z., Editor.

Hodgkinson, Sarah, Editor.

Piché, Justin, Editor.

Walby, Kevin., Editor.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections.

Punishment.

Critical criminology.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Organized crime.

Transnational crime.

Prison and Punishment.

Critical Criminology.

Crime and Society.

Organized Crime.

Transnational Crime.

Local Subjects:

Prison and Punishment.

Critical Criminology.

Crime and Society.

Organized Crime.

Transnational Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIII, 1045 p. 82 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world. It is divided into seven sections: Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship; Carceral Retasking, Curation and Commodification of Punishment; Meanings of Prison Life and Representations of Punishment in Tourism Sites; Death and Torture in Prison Museums; Colonialism, Relics of Empire and Prison Museums; Tourism and Operational Prisons; and Visitor Consumption and Experiences of Prison Tourism. The Handbook explores global debates within the field of Prison Tourism inquiry; spanning a diverse range of topics from political imprisonment and persecution in Taiwan to interpretive programming in Alcatraz, and the representation of incarcerated Indigenous peoples to prison graffiti. This Handbook is the first to present a thorough examination of Prison Tourism that is truly global in scope. 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. .

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section 1. Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship

Chapter 2. Iconic Power, Dark Tourism and the Spectacle of Suffering

Chapter 3. Remembering and Forgetting the Gulag

Chapter 4. “A Funny Place for a Prison”

Chapter 5. Juxtaposing Prison and Other Carceral Sites

Chapter 6. Mapping the Labyrinth

Chapter 7. Screening Tourist Encounters

Chapter 8. Penal Optics and the Struggle for the Right to Look

Section 2. Carceral Retasking, Curation and Commodification of Punishment

Chapter 9. Layers of Violence

Chapter 10. Rottnest or Wadjemup

Chapter 11. Taiwan’s Former Political Prisons

Chapter 12. Representing the Maze/Long Kesh Prison in Northern Ireland

Chapter 13. The “Kresty” Prison and Tourism

Chapter 14. Prisons, Tourism and Symbolism

Chapter 15. Rocking the Boat

Section 3. Meanings of Prison Life and Representations of Punishment in Tourism Sites

Chapter 16. Vagabonds and Rogues

Chapter 17. City of Women

Chapter 18. Constructed Inmates

Chapter 19. Commemorating Captive Women

Chapter 20. From Shame to Fame

Chapter 21. Haunting Encounters at Canadian Penal History Museums

Chapter 22. In the Steps of Monte Cristo and the “Last Queen of France”

Section 4. Death and Torture in Prison Museums

Chapter 23. Penal Tourism and the Paradox of (In)Humane Punishment

Chapter 24. Representing Political Oppression

Chapter 25. Punishment as Sublime Edutainment

Chapter 26. Representations of Capital Punishment in Canadian Penal History Museums

Chapter 27. Ghost Hunting in Prison

Chapter 28. Don’t Mess with Texas

Section 5. Colonialism, Relics of Empire and Prison Museums

Chapter 29. Empire and Its Aftermath in Four (Post-)Colonial Settings

Chapter 30. Journeying Towards New Methods in Prison Tourism Research

Chapter 31. Remembering and Representing Imprisonment in Postcolonial Cities

Chapter 32. Penal Tourism of the Carceral Other as Colonial Narrative

Chapter 33. Reversing Criminology’s White Gaze

Chapter 34. Penal Transportation, Family History and Convict Tourism

Chapter 35. Inventing a Colonial Dark Tourism Site

Section 6. Visitor Consumption and Experiences of Prison Tourism

Chapter 36. Explorations in Banality

Chapter 37. Visitor Experiences at Prison Museums

Chapter 38. Execution on Display

Chapter 39. In Their Own Words

Chapter 40. Interpretive Programming on Alcatraz Island

Chapter 41. “Cannibals and Convicts”

Section 7. Tourism and Operational Prisons

Chapter 42. The Backpacker’s Guide to the Prison

Chapter 43. The Prison Tour as a Pedagogical Tool

Chapter 44. Touring Operational Carceral Facilities as a Pedagogical Tool

Chapter 45. Why and How Prison Museums/Tourism Contribute to the Normalization of the Carceral/Shadow Carceral State

Chapter 46. Punitive Healing and Penal Relics

Chapter 47. Developing Pedagogies of Human Rights and Social Justice in the Prison Museum

Chapter 48. Sport, Spectacle and Carceral Othering.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781786847102

1786847108

9781137561350

1137561351