This article surveys the state of emerging geographic research on detention, imprisonment,
and confinement. Prisons and detention centers vary widely in location and form, but all hold …

Former sites of punishment and incarceration have become a popular tourist experience as
defunct prisons are converted into museums or heritage sites. Among the most prominent …

In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are
essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among …

Despite increasing academic and media attention paid to dark tourism–the act of travel to
sites of death, disaster and the seemingly macabre–understanding of the concept remains …

Geography, experience, and imagination are all crucial to how we take measure of islands.
Prime foci of legend and invention, islands have haunted humanity since the dawn of …

Names: Hou, Jeffrey, 1967–editor.| Knierbein, Sabine, 1977–editor. Title: City unsilenced:
urban resistance and public space in the age of shrinking democracy/edited by Jeffrey Hou …

Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei
and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of …

On November 20, 1969, eighty-nine American Indians calling themselves the “Indians of All
Tribes”(IOAT) invaded Alcatraz Island. The group's founding proclamation was addressed to …

Research into prison tourism and prison heritage has not taken enough time to understand
how historical change has left impacts in urban contexts, which sometimes continues even …

Contained within tight geographical margins, islands are places where memories are
intensified and heightened. The antithesis of the dreamy palm-covered paradises of travel …