List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: African Prisons and History
Part I. Penal Politics in Colonial Senegal
Chapter 1: Building the Colonial Prison in Senegal, 1817-1950
Chapter 2: Prison Location: Controlling Men and Enforcing Labor
Part II: Prison Architecture and Penal Experience
Chapter 3: The Architecture of Repression: Prison Buildings and
Designs in Senegal (1833-1946)
Chapter 4: Prison Architecture and Patterns of Surveillance, Life,
and Discipline
Chapter 5: Redesigning the Colonial Prison: African Responses to
Imprisonment
Part III. Post-colonial prisons in Senegal
Chapter 6: Architectural Makeover: The Legacy of Colonial Prisons
in Senegal
Appendix: Prison Experiences and Narratives: The Power of Words
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Dior Konaté is associate professor of African history at South Carolina State University.
Dr. Dior Konate’s thoroughly documented book provides, for the
first time, a comprehensive examination of the history of
incarceration in Senegal from the colonial to the post-colonial
eras. The book persuasively demonstrates the entanglement between
architectural design and penal philosophy emphasizing the role of
the prison as a site for the expression of state power and inmates’
resistance to it. By focusing on the built environment of prisons
and inmates’ agency, Konate makes a valuable contribution to an
important but neglected aspect of West Africa and Senegal’s
colonial and post-colonial history.
*Cheikh Anta Babou, University of Pennsylvania*
This is a rigorously researched and illuminating study of prison
architecture in colonial and postcolonial Senegal and is an
effective contribution to the literature on imprisonment in Africa,
highlighting the architecture of repression and cultures of
violence inherent in colonial prison systems. Konate’s analysis of
the spatial locations and architectures of prisons delivers new
insights into the punitive functioning of imprisonment and the
weaknesses of colonial ‘disciplinary’ regimes in Senegal. The focus
on recovering prisoners’ voices is particularly welcome and nuances
existing understandings of incarceration.
*Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter*
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