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Papua New Guinea's Last Place - Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison (Paperback, New edition)
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Papua New Guinea's Last Place - Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison (Paperback, New edition)
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" . . . a great strength of this book is its description of ideas
that resonate all over the country . . . Reed's writing is always
lucid and often bold." . Contemporary Pacific "The book corresponds
well with recent studies that attempt to understand Papua New
Guinea's varied social scene and the political and economic
realities of this recently independent country, and should be read
by anyone interested in postcolonial conditions in Melanesia." .
Focaal What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one
define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive
fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to
address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of
inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for
social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a
prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes
to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It
challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by
exploring the creative as well as negative outcomes of detention,
separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua
New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and
new approaches to contemporary living. Adam Reed received his PhD
from the University of Cambridge and currently is a research fellow
and lecturer at the School of Human Sciences at the University of
Surrey.
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