ERC Starting Grant · 2024
This project’s overarching theme is how penal authorities conceal the prisoners’ poor health with malicious intent for various reasons and by various techniques, statistical and rhetorical. From this angle, the project examines British metropolitan, Indian colonial, American, and Soviet-Russian prisons and camps from the late modern era – the birth of the Western penitentiary - to the present moment. Within this ambitious temporal and spatial frame, the project poses "big questions" about the universal operational patterns of modern penality and bureaucracy, as observed via managing prisoners’ health and epidemics. The project seeks to understand why and when prisoner health statistics…
From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.