The Bastille Effect: Transforming Sites of Political Imprisonment

by Michael Welch

Book Overview

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As conceptualized throughout this richly illustrated book, the Bastille Effect represents the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally. In their afterlives, these sites deliver critiques of political imprisonment and the sustained efforts to hold perpetrators accountable for state violence. However,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520386035
• ISBN13: 9780520386037
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"