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Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power?

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Decolonising Criminology

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This chapter offers an alternative reading of settler colonial incarceration as sites of settler colonial repression and Indigenous refusal. We assert that research on the colonial prison suggests that Euro-north American understandings of the role of the prison offer a shaky foundation on which to construct a theory of carcerality under settler-colonialism. Instead, we present an alternative genealogy of incarceration that reimagines prison, less as the apex of a hierarchical justice pyramid, but as one link in a laterally concatenated archipelago of Agambean “camps” (spaces opened through the state of exception), designed to further the colonial project of Indigenous extinguishment.

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    Harry Blagg

  2. Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Thalia Anthony

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Blagg, H., Anthony, T. (2019). Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power?. In: Decolonising Criminology. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53247-3_7

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