A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 408
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781350000704
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350000674
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350000704
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 408-page volume, sole-edited by Anderson, is the first main output from her £1.5m ERC project 'The Carceral Archipelago' (2013-18). The 36-page Introduction sole-authored by Anderson encapsulates her vision of drawing together an area studies historiography with new research and theorisation, from a global perspective. It reveals the scale and scope of convict mobility for territorial occupation and imperial expansion, contesting the dominant place of prisons and incarceration in the history of punishment. The sole-authored chapter (#8, 33 pages) represents substantial new research from multiple archives and presents the first complete statistics of Indian convict numbers and flows.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This sole-edited volume (408 pages) represents Anderson's vision of realising the first history of global convict mobility, across empires and timeframes, over a period of more than 500 years. Stemming from her £1.5m ERC project 'The Carceral Archipelago' (2013-18), Anderson commissioned all of the essays and worked closely with all the authors to ensure cohesion across the volume's key themes of mapping, enumeration, punishment, migration, governance, labour, gender, and agency. She sole-authored the Introduction (36 pages) and Chapter 8 (33 pages) and provided extensive editorial and copy-editing support to 4 authors with English as an Additional Language. Aside from the map in her chapter (8.1), her research also contributed to the production of maps 5.1 and 7.1.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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