Book ID: CBB265022827

A Carceral Ecology: Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina (2021)

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Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to a national park as well as a museum that is housed in the world’s southernmost prison. Ushuaia’s radial panopticon operated as an experimental hybrid penal colony and penitentiary from 1902 to 1947, designed to revolutionize modern prisons globally. A Carceral Ecology offers the first comprehensive study of this notorious prison and its afterlife, documenting how the Patagonian frontier and timber economy became central to ideas about labor, rehabilitation, and resource management. Mining the records of penologists, naturalists, and inmates, Ryan C. Edwards shows how discipline was tied to forest management, but also how inmates gained situated geographical knowledge and reframed debates on the regeneration of the land and the self. Bringing a new imperative to global prison studies, Edwards asks us to rethink the role of the environment in carceral practices as well as the impact of incarceration on the natural world.

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Authors & Contributors
Edwards, Ryan Christopher
Grace Karskens
Denisoff, Dennis
Osemudiame Okpoko, Mercy
Dahl, Hilde
McCreary, Tyler
Concepts
Forests and forestry
Prisons
Ecology
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Prisoners
Natural resource management
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Argentina
Australia
Southern states (U.S.)
Bahia (Brazil)
Myanmar (Burma)
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
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