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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Florence Bernault; Janet L Roitman |
| ISBN: | 0325071195 9780325071190 032507125X 9780325071251 |
| OCLC Number: | 50184879 |
| Description: | x, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The politics of enclosure in colonial and post-colonial Africa / Florence Bernault -- 2. Confinement in Angola's past / Jan Vansina -- 3. Captivity and incarceration in nineteenth-century West Africa / Thierno Bah -- 4. Juvenile marginality and incarceration during the colonial period : the first penitentiary schools in Senegal, 1888-1927 / Ibrahima Thioub -- 5. Punishment to fit the crime? : penal policy and practice in British colonial Africa / David Killingray -- 6. Colonial urbanism and prisons in Africa : reflections on Conakry and Freetown, 1903-1960 / Odile Goerg -- 7. Between conservatism and transgression : everyday life in the prisons of Upper Volta, 1920-1960 / Laurent Fourchard -- 8. Ultimate exclusion : imprisoned women in Senegal / Dior Konaté -- 9. L'enfermement de l'espace : territoriality and colonial enclosure in Southern Gabon / Christopher Gray -- 10. Space and conflict in the Elisabethville mining camps, 1923-1938 / Sean Hanretta -- 11. Administrative confinements and confinements of exile : the reclusion of nomads in the Sahara / Pierre Boilley -- 12. The war of the cachots : a history of conflict and containment in Rwanda / Michele D. Wagner. |
| Series Title: | Social history of Africa series |
| Responsibility: | edited by Florence Bernault ; translated by Janet Roitman. |
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