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Carceral Geographies Working Group of the RGS-IBG
@carceralgeography.bsky.social
The Carceral Geography Working Group brings together researchers interested in the spaces, practices and experiences of incarceration and confinement, broadly understood. https://carceralgeographies.co.uk/
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The Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) are honoring the work of our international network at our August "Creating in Confinement" workshop.

If you have published/edited a book, article, or creative work over the last academic year, let us know by sumbitting sugestions using the link below!
June 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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This book seeks to change that--check it out. Can't wait to hear more about her work!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Prisoner Leaders
This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.
link.springer.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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for those of us working on asylum accommodation, detention and bordered contexts, the workshop will open up conversations around the role of lived experience leadership in producing knowledge about spaces of confinement. Please join us! carceralgeographies.co.uk/creating-in-...
Creating in Confinement 2025
Creating in Confinement: Co-production, Creative Methods and Carceral Geographies Workshop Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. University of Birmingham, UK, Room TBC. Registration: Worksh…
carceralgeographies.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.
Prisoner Leaders
This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.
link.springer.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Reading up on our keynote speakers' amazing work ahead of the @carceralgeography.bsky.social workshop in August. Very inspired by Maria Adams' Doing Porridge project, which produced this cookbook. Can't wait to learn more: www.waterstones.com/book/beyond-...
Beyond Porridge by Maria Adams, Jon Garland, Vicki Harman, Daniel McCarthy, Erin Power and Talitha Brown, Jon Watts | Waterstones
Buy Beyond Porridge by Maria Adams, Jon Garland, Vicki Harman, Daniel McCarthy, Erin Power and Talitha Brown, Jon Watts from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FRE...
www.waterstones.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Our first post is an invitation! Join is to explore creative methods in carceral geography with these amazing people. Register here: events.humanitix.com/cgwg-worksho...
June 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM