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Fetichismo tecnológico e pensamento pós–humanista: sobre "a colônia penal", de Franz Kafka | Technological fetishism and post-humanistic thought: about Kafka’s “penal colony”

open access: yesLiinc em Revista, 2008
Resumo “Na Colônia penal”, Kafka fornece-nos literariamente uma reflexão profundamente perturbadora sobre as relações entre homem e máquina. Argüimos que, sendo talvez o mais esperançoso do escritor, o texto analisa de forma estética e em estado extremo ...
Francisco Rüdiger
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Oscar Mallitte's Andaman photographs (1857-8) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article examines the first Andaman Islands photographs, which were taken by the photographer Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte during a Government of India survey whose brief was to find a site for a penal colony for mutineers and rebels sentenced to ...
Anderson, Clare
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Le traitement du bagne colonial de Guyane par le magazine Détective

open access: yesCriminocorpus, 2018
The penal colony of French Guyana was one of favorite investigative themes of the newspaper Détective. The reporters traveled to French Guyana to visit the penitentiaries and could thus inform the readers of the fate of convicts whose Détective had ...
Jean-Lucien Sanchez
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The Perils of Proximity: The Geopolitical Underpinnings of Australian Views of New Caledonia in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the links between these far-flung outposts of empire, New Caledonia and Australia, were much stronger than we might realise today.
Rechniewski, Elizabeth
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Que faire d’exilés indésirables ?

open access: yesDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2019
This article studies the arrival of nearly two thousand Spanish republicans in French Algeria after the failure of a revolution in 1874. It shows how the French and Spanish authorities cooperate to make this stay as short as possible.
Jeanne Moisand
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Ambivalent Abolitionism in the 1920s: New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022
In the former penal colony of New South Wales (NSW), a Labor government attempted what its counterpart in Queensland had achieved in 1922: the abolition of the death penalty.
Carolyn Strange
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Convicts and coolies : rethinking indentured labour in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article seeks to shift the frame of analysis within which discussions of Indian indentured migration take place. It argues that colonial discourses and practices of indenture are best understood not with regard to the common historiographical ...
Allen Richard B.   +24 more
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Penal stress and its manifestations in the convicts, suspects and accused persons

open access: yesПсихология и право, 2015
The paper is devoted to penal stress and its manifestations at the convicts, suspects and accused persons. This topic has been poorly studied. It is necessary to identify the groups of people especially most in need of prevention and correction of stress
Melnikova D.V., Debolskiy M.G.
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Kafka's Writing Machine: Metamorphosis in the Penal Colony

open access: yesStudies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1982
Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" is a problematic story, largely because of the conflicting interpretations it has received: does its famous machine dispense grace or torture? Is Kafka giving us a parable of Old vs. New Law?
Arnold Weinstein
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The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to fit in and survive.
Lindfors, Bernth
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