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- Title
IMPRISONMENT AND COLONIALISM IN KENYA, c.1930-1952: ESCAPING THE CARCERAL ARCHIPELAGO.
- Authors
Branch, Daniel
- Abstract
This article discusses several issues related to prisons in colonial Kenya. Historian Michel Foucault described the prison as the location for distributing individuals, fixing them in space, classifying them, extracting from them the maximum in time and forces, training their bodies, coding their continuous behavior, maintaining them in perfect visibility, forming around them an apparatus of observation, registration, and recording, constituting on them a body of knowledge that is accumulated and centralized. African prisons grafted together the disciplinarian function and character of prisons in North America and Europe, as described by Foucault, with "specific, highly original models of penal incarceration," produced by the unique demands of the variety of locations into which prisons were introduced.
- Subjects
KENYA; PRISONS; IMPERIALISM; IMPRISONMENT; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; CORRECTIONAL institutions; CRIMINAL justice system
- Publication
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2005, Vol 38, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
0361-7882
- Publication type
Article