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Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral 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
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-06-27
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 666-686
- ISSN
- 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0288
- OpenAlex
- W2726661946
- Cited by
- 293
- References
- 132
- Citations by year
- 2026: 48 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 31.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Progress in Human Geography (publishedVersion)
- Carl von Ossiezky University of Oldenburg (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- 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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