Cultures of Incarceration Centre
Bringing together scholars in Criminology, Humanities and Arts to explore creative responses to the experience of incarceration across cultures and continents.
About the Cultures of Incarceration Centre
Incarceration is often associated with imprisonment in a jail or prison, but we are concerned with an expanded field of historical and contemporary contexts, encompassing wartime internment camps, immigration detention centres, modern-day trafficking, and situations of domestic abuse or pandemic lockdowns. Within such diverse carceral environments, creativity has flourished in the form of songs, poetry, art or memoirs.
The Centre considers how incarceration may act as a lightning rod for discussions of race, class, gender, humanity, and citizenship in countries across the world.
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