Call for papers
We invite papers on the following topics :
– the politics of incarceration in a colonial context
– colonial prison and concentration camps and metropolitan political regimes (dictatorship or democracy)
– the incarceration in prison camps of members of metropolitan and colonial oppositions
– the legal framework for political deportation and imprisonment
– penal colonies, forced exile, deportation and imprisonment
– the relation between political imprisonment and forced labour
– the relation between prison camps and their colonial environment
– the practice of incarceration : punishment, violence, torture and death
– the prison camp as a site of resistance
– prison camps as laboratories of political repression
– the prison camp as a laboratory for post-colonial leadership
– the prison camp as a social, economic and political microcosm
– the impact of prison camps upon prisoners’ physical and mental health
– the prison camp as a site of learning and education
– the prison camp as a site for the production of memory (poetry, fiction, essays, letters, music, photography, etc.)
– prison camps and national and international media
– colonial prison camps and international organisations
Submission of paper proposals :
– Maximum time allotted for presentation is 20 mins.
– Proposals including abstracts (max. 250 words), keywords (max. 5), author’s name, institutional affiliation and e-mail address, and a brief exposition of current research and interests, should be submitted in accordance with the template
– Colonial incarceration PROPOSALS and sent the following e-mail address : colonialincarceration20century@gmail.com
Deadline for submission of paper proposals (abstracts) : 28 February 2016
Selection of paper proposals and communication to participants : 30 March 2016
Publication conference program : 30 April 2016
Pre-circulation of summary papers (approx. 1000 words) to discussants : 30 June 2016
Some of the papers will be selected by the conference’s scientific board to be included in a special issue to an international peer-reviewed journal. Deadline for submission : 30 October2016
Publication of the ‘special issue’ : 2017/2018