Prisoners' bodies activism, health, and the prisoners' rights movement in Ireland, 1972-1985 / Oisi�n Wall.
| Author/creator | Wall, Oisi�n. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Activism, health, and the prisoners' rights movement in Ireland, 1972-1985 |
| Series | States, people, and the history of social change ; 11 States, people, and the history of social change ; 11. |
| Contents | 'Join Your Prisoners' Union!': A Microhistory of Daniel Redmond and the Prisoners' Union, 1972-77 -- 'A Voice for Prisoners': The Prisoners' Rights Organisation, 1973-76 -- 'A Project against Authority': A Microhistory of Karl Crawley's Disruptive Autonomy -- 'The Beginning of the End': Protest, Rioting, and Revenge, 1979-86 -- 'It Is Doubtful If There Is a Single Prisoner or Ex-prisoner Here': The PRO's Sociological Turn, 1977-86 -- 'What We Thought We Had Achieved': Whitaker, Reform, and the Legacy of the Prisoners' Rights Movement. |
| Abstract | "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 ordinary prisoners' movement, a prisoner-driven movement that sought to revolutionize the prison system in Ireland between 1972 and 1985. Oisi�n Wall charts the rise and fall of the 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 lived experience and their politics. The stories are reconstructed through oral histories, court records, press reports, prisoner's 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2024). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780228023418 (ePUB) |
| ISBN | 9780228023401 (ePDF) |
| ISBN | (paper) |
| ISBN | 9780228023548 (OA) |