Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons

Simon Turner is Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen. His work has focused on conflict and displacement in the African Great Lakes region, where he has studied hope, anxiety and rumours among refugees in and out of camps. He has also explored humanitarian governance and layered sovereignty in refugee camps.Steffen Jensen holds a professorship at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University in Copenhagen as well as being Senior Researcher at Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture. He has published extensively on urban violence, policing, and criminal and violent networks in South Africa and the Philippines.

• 1. Introduction: On Stuckness and Sites of Confinement Andrew M. Jefferson, Simon Turner and Steffen Jensen 2. Camps, Encampments, and Occupations: From the Heterotopia to the Urban Subject Michel Agier 3. ‘Winning Life’ and the Discipline of Death at Iwawa Island Rose Løvgren and Simon Turner 4. Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Town’s Prison–township Circuit Karen Waltorp and Steffen Jensen 5. Urban Anti-politics and the Enigma of Revolt: Confinement, Segregation, and (the Lack of) Political Action in Contemporary Nicaragua Dennis Rodgers 6. Life in a Space of Necropolitics Toward an Economy of Value in Prisons Frédéric Le Marcis 7. The Confines of Time – On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine Andrew M. Jefferson and Lotte Buch Segal 8. Driving Across Settler Late Liberalism: Indigenous Ghettos, Slums and Camps Elizabeth A. Povinelli