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Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography

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Moran, Dominique, Turner, Jennifer, Schliehe, Anna K.·2018·Progress in Human Geography

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Carceral geography has yet to define the ‘carceral’, with implications for its own development, its potential synergies within and beyond geography, and effective critique of the carceral ‘turn’. A range of explicatory alternatives are open, including continued expansive engagement with the carceral, and attendance to compact and diffuse carceral models. We trace the origins of the term ‘carceral’, its expansive definition after Foucault, the apparent carceral/prison symbiosis, and the extant diversity of carceral geography. We advance for debate, as a step towards its critical appraisal, a series of ‘carceral conditions’ that bear on the nature and quality of carcerality.

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Authors
Moran, D., Turner, J., & Schliehe, A. K.
Affiliations
  • University of Birmingham (GB)
  • University of Liverpool (GB)
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author
Moran, Dominique
Venue
Progress in Human Geography
Published
2017-06-27
Volume
42
Issue
5
Pages
666-686
ISSN
  • 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0288
OpenAlex
W2726661946
Cited by
268
References
132
Citations by year
2026: 34 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 3
FWCI
40.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Locations
  • Progress in Human Geography (publishedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K002023/2)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Spatial and Cultural Studies
Keywords
carceral geography, carcerality, Michel Foucault, prisons

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