The Bastille Effect : transforming sites of political imprisonment /

The Bastille Effect : transforming sites of political imprisonment /

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"As conceptualized throughout this richly illustrated book, the Bastille Effect represents the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally. In their afterlives, these sites deliver critiques of political imprisonment and the sustained ef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Welch, Michael, 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Prisons > History.
Memorialization > Case studies.
Memory > Sociological aspects.
Collective memory > History.
Prisons > Histoire.
Commémorations > Études de cas.
Mémoire collective > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
Collective memory.
Memorialization.
Prisons.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The sacred and the profane
  • In search of signs
  • Diagrams of power
  • Technologies of power
  • Performing memory.