RT Book
T1 Carceral afterlives: prisons, detention, and punishment in postcolonial Uganda
T2 New African histories
A1 Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine 1990-
LA English
PP Athens, Ohio
PB Ohio University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1782152628
AB Introduction Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda -- Colonial "Cinderella": Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period -- A National Prisons Service -- Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State -- Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years -- "Dungeons," Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years -- State of War: Conflict and Confinement After Amin -- Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures.
AB "This social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9865.5
SN 9780821424780
SN 9780821424773
K1 Prisons : Uganda : History
K1 Imprisonment : Uganda : History
K1 Political prisoners : Uganda
K1 Uganda : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Strafe : Freiheitsstrafe : Geschichte