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I Am Opposed to This Procedure : How Kafka\u27s In the Penal Colony Illuminates the Current Debate About Solitary Confinement and Oversight of American Prisons [PDF]

, 2015
This is the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka\u27s In the Penal Colony. The story brilliantly imagines a gruesome killing machine at the epicenter of a mythical prison\u27s operations.
Mushlin, Michael B.
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Administration of Alexandrovskaya Central Penal Colony (1873-1917)

Научный диалог
This article explores the formation and activities of the administration of the Alexandrovskaya Central Penal Colony, which played a significant role within the Main Prison Administration of the Russian Empire.
A. A. Ivanov, S. L. Kuras, T. L. Kuras
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Personality of a Typical Convicted Person, Disordering the Activity of Institutions Providing Insulation from Society

Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2018
In the article, based on the analysis of the materials of criminal cases initiated in 2010-2015, an attempt is made to identify certain criminal characteristics of the personality of a typical convicted person who commits crimes in the form of ...
A. V. Akchurin
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Review of Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba, by David Sartorius; & Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, by Peter M. Beattie

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2017
Ever Faithful: Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba, by David Sartorius. Duke University Press, 2013. Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, by Peter M. Beattie.
Evan C. Rothera
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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For an Exploration of Visual Resources of the History of Imprisonment

Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2019
The article analyses still and moving pictures taken in prisons and corrective camps in Soviet Union between 1930s–1970s. Penal and Justice State institutions of the Soviet Union frequently appealed to film-makers and photographers in order to create the
Irina Tcherneva
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Les bâtiments de l’abbaye de Cîteaux : bilan et nouvelles données issues des sources comptables, xiie-xve siècle

Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre, 2021
Cîteaux Abbey was almost completely destroyed between the French Revolution and the installation of Father Joseph Rey’s penal agricultural colony in 1846.
Coraline Rey
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