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Portrait of Simon Turner. Photo: Emma Lord.

Simon Turner

Professor | Head of Research | Deputy Head of Department

Portrait of Simon Turner. Photo: Emma Lord.

Introduction: Stuckness and Sites of Confinement

Author

  • Andrew Jefferson
  • Simon Turner
  • Steffen Jensen

Summary, in English

This Introduction to the special issue develops a theoretical argument around the interrelations of space and time in sites of confinement by exploring the relationships between ghettos, camps, places of detention, prisons and the like with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed and who are doing their utmost to cope or escape. We explore how life is lived in and across these sites of confinement by focusing on the tactics of everyday life and hope while being mindful of how ever-present forms of abjection, even death are constitutive elements of these sites. Stuckness, from this inter-disciplinary perspective, is not simply a function of the spatial form it takes. Crucially, the argument goes, we need to understand how temporality animates stuckness as an important dimension of confinement.

Publishing year

2019-01-01

Language

English

Pages

1-13

Publication/Series

Ethnos

Volume

84

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article (comment)

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • International Migration and Ethnic Relations

Keywords

  • Stuckness
  • confinement
  • Camps
  • Prisons
  • Temporality
  • Mobility
  • ghetto

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0014-1844