Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985 - Couverture souple

Wall, Oisín

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0228022959 ISBN 13 : 9780228022954

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded - there were few rehabilitation programs, medical care was limited, psychiatric care was practically nonexistent, and brutality was commonplace. The Irish prisoners unionized, igniting a movement that helped transform the penal system over the next decade and a half, and whose legacy is still visible today. Prisoners' Bodies is the first book on the history of the prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisín Wall charts the rise and fall of prisoners' organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement. Finally, the book examines the experiences of more than twenty individuals in prison, setting their activism within the context of their lives and their politics. Their stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoners' publications, and archival material. Prisoners' Bodies seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been systemically and institutionally silenced in the history of modern Irish prisons.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Oisín Wall is lecturer at University College Cork.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0228022959
• ISBN 13: 9780228022954
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible