Andrew M. Jefferson is a senior researcher at DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture, Denmark.Co-authors are Myanmar-based researchers protected by pseudonyms. They were core members of the research team, and they continue to engage in work that promotes justice in Myanmar.

• Foreword; Tomas Max MartinChapter 1. Everyday Prison Governance in MyanmarChapter 2. The Bureaucratic ArchitectureChapter 3. Mundane Survival and Exchange EconomiesChapter 4. Debasing and Sustaining Penal EncountersChapter 5. The Emotivity of Prison ExperienceChapter 6. Punishment, Discipline, and Violence: The Exercise of PowerChapter 7. Prison Subjects

Everyday Prison Governance in Myanmar is the first major study to go beyond the celebrated world of the country’s political prisoners and deep into the relations, emotions and travails of its ordinary detainees. Through close descriptions and affecting narratives, it carries the reader along with the rhythms of petty bureaucracy, mundane brutality and the exchange economies of imprisonment in this erstwhile British colony. Painstakingly documented, thoughtfully presented and persuasively argued, this is a model of collaborative ethnographic research and writing on one of the most consequential yet misunderstood institutions in our time.