RT Article
T1 The Carceral City: confinement and order in Hong Kong’s forbidden enclave
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 3
SP 587
OP 606
A1 Fraser, Alistair David 1982-
A2 Schliehe, Anna K.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760567752
AB Once feted, Hong Kong has recently become a centre of civil unrest. In this paper, we situate these emergent politics through a case study of corruption and everyday life in Kowloon Walled City, a mainland Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong, which developed notoriety as a freestanding grey economy. Drawing from oral testimonies of police officers, triad members and local residents, we excavate the lived experience of confinement within this contested space. These accounts reconstruct the Walled City as a ‘quasi-carceral’ site of enclosure, a zone of colonial exceptionalism and a hybrid cultural space. Through this case study, we historicize current debates in carceral geography, humanize recent interventions in urban scholarship and analyse the shifting politics at the frontier of Chinese expansionism.
K1 Carceral geography
K1 Corruption
K1 Colonialism
K1 Urban confinement
K1 Kowloon Walled City
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa087