This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the
establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial
spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive
practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it. The
contributors offer a reassessment of the history of politically
motivated incarceration based upon a multi-disciplinary perspective
in a global, imperial setting during the twentieth century. The
introduction and seven chapters engage with comparative and
transnational perspectives on political persecution, forced
confinement and colonial rule in British, French, German, Belgian
and Portuguese dominions in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin
America. Addressing political incarceration's global imperial
dimensions, they focus upon the organisation, strategies,
narratives and practices associated with political internment in
Africa (Angola, Tanzania, Rhodesia, South Africa), Latin America
(French Guyana) and the Pacific region (New Caledonia). Penal
legislation, policies of convict transport and political
imprisonment, resettlement, prison regimes, resistance and
liberation struggles, counter insurgency, prisoner agency, and
prisons as cultural spaces and of memory are discussed here for
different time periods from the mid-1800s to the late twentieth
century. The chapters build upon the ongoing debate on political
incarceration in the empire and the remarkable dynamic scientific
research witnessed over the last decades. As a result, they provide
novel insights into the nature of legal systems, colonial
discourse, memory, racial segregation and persecution, prisoners'
narratives of practices of punishment and incarceration, and human
rights abuses in imperial spaces. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial
and Commonwealth History. The editors have also written an original
conclusion to the present volume.
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