Visions of Prisons : Wars, Walls, and Watching.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welch, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Dark tourism.

Power (Social sciences).

Local Subjects:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

Visions of Prisons is an inquiry into the enduring meaning of containment and surveillance in post-conflict societies. With a focus on the partitioned cities of Northern Ireland and divided Berlin, Michael Welch details how war led to the construction of walls that in turn produced coercive forms of watching. Long after the end of the armed conflicts that first gave rise to these structures, the walls continued to perpetuate an urban environment that imagined certain people kept inside a designated social space and others kept out. Merging penology with surveillance studies, Visions of Prisons grounds its theoretical exploration in the author's own photographs, which invite readers to participate in an interdisciplinary visual analysis of salient sites in the former East Germany and Northern Ireland.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

PART ONE: The Big Picture

1. Surveil and Punish

2. Geopolitics of Boundaries

3. Punitive Containment

PART TWO: Minute Details

4. Meanings of Things

5. Meanings of Order

PART THREE: Trajectories of Surveillance

6. Vertical-Veillance

7. Lateral-Veillance

8. Counter-Veillance

PART FOUR: Enduring Edges

9. Mental States

10. Defying Dystopia

Epilogue: Prisons of Visions

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-42323-2

OCLC:

1587895755