Society and space

In complement to the US Carceral Society Forum, this virtual theme issue gathers a commentary, five articles, and two reviews essays from Society and Space on prisons. (A virtual theme issue from August, 2011, drew together papers on urban disorder and policing, which has an obvious connection to this theme.) The articles speak to the manifold ways in which lives are lived in spaces of extreme control and surveillance. The relationships sculpted in and through prison spaces, and relations enduring the forced separation of incarceration, are central in all of them. In addition, the commentary by Ghazi-Walid Falah describes his own placement in an Israeli prison as an “administrative detainee.” The two review essays, both from within the last year, examine recent scholarship on the US carceral society (Reifer) and on detention and deportation (Martin).

The following pieces are all open access until November 1. They are listed chronologically.

Environment and Planning D 2002
Till death do us part: masculinity, friendship, and nationalism in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Lorraine Dowler

Environment and Planning D 2007 25 587 – 593
Commentary: The politics of doing geography: 23 days in the hell of Israeli detention
Ghazi-Walid Falah

Environment and Planning D 2008 26 1001 – 1017
‘Just duck’: the role of vision in the production of prison spaces
Bettina van Hoven, David Sibley

Environment and Planning D 2009 27 700 – 720
Lipstick, lace, and longing: constructions of femininity inside a Russian prison
Dominique Moran, Judith Pallot, Laura Piacentini

Environment and Planning D 2012 30 748 – 755
Review essay. Detaining noncitizens: law, security, crime and politics
Lauren Martin

Environment and Planning D 2013 31 174 – 190
Carceral geography and the spatialities of prison visiting: visitation, recidivism, and hyperincarceration
Dominique Moran

Environment and Planning D 2013 31 372 – 380
Review essay. The reassertion of race, space, and punishment’s place in urban sociology and critical criminology
Thomas E Reifer

Environment and Planning D 2013 31 381 – 399
“Security here is not safe”: violence, punishment, and space in the contemporary US penitentiary
Karen M Morin