University:
University College London
Course:
LAWS0035 | Criminology
Academic year:

2024
Views:

361

Pages:

2
Author:

Nam B.

Penal Duress In Myanmar: Interrogating The Persistence And Mutation Of Imperial Carcerality Presented by: Mr. Martin and Mr. Jefferson Date: Oktober, 2022 Keywords - #penal duress - #imperial carcerality - #legacies - #Myanmar - An attempt to develop a vocabulary to think about the way situated and populated social practices endure that doesn't simply involve the positing of a past that was and a present that is... - Based on collaborative research in Myanmar - Inspired by Ann Laura Stoler (2016) Duress. Imperial Durability in Our Times PENAL DURESS - "Duress" figures in the title of this book to capture three principal features of colonial histories of the present: the hardened tenacious qualities of colonial effects, their extended protracted temporalities; and, not least, their durable, if sometimes intangible constraints and confinements' (Stoler 2016: 7) - 'Duress as I conceive it is a relationship of actualized and anticipated violence' (Stoler 2016:8) Labor - Penal labor is organized around three overall and somewhat conflicting objectives: • To discipline • To exploit • - To rehabilitate In practice, throughout its history, the prison has attached itself most strongly to the disciplinary and exploitative dimensions of labor and less so to rehabilitation. - Penal labor is integral to empire. - The importance of mobility to imperial projects entails that the transient frontier camp is more central to imperial circularity than the intransigent prison fortress. - Empires rely more on barbed wire than on bricks. PONSAN - APPENDIX XXX BURMA JAIL MANUAL 1937 - 35 yr-old male ex-prisoners • "Ponsan 1 is used when the prison is opened and closed, Ponsan 2 is used when taking porridge, rice, bath, parade, going in and out of the gate. Ponsan 3 is used when the Director, Deputy Director, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, Jailor, Deputy Jailor, staff and any authority come into prison. I also memorized it hahahah. If I don't memorize it, I would get the beating. Hahahah." INTERROGATING LEGACIES AND RECURSIONS - 'Recursion is precisely not to imagine that social and political processes ever play out in repetitive and mimetic fashion... they are processes of partial re-inscriptions, modified displacements, and amplified recuperations' (Stoler 2016: 27). IMPERIAL CARCERALITY - Imprisonment is folded into a martial project of conquest and control, rather than a state building project of punishment and order; the prisoner is considered an enemy - Imprisonment is overinvested in extraction and underinvested in care - There is a routinised disregard for bureaucratic rules and an ingrained permissiveness of death - Prison practices participate in the symbolic reproduction of imperial might