Dance in chains : political imprisonment in the modern world /
"What part does the imprisoned activist play in the conflict between regimes and their opponents around the world? Political incarceration today seems to offer the clearest evidence of a repressive regime, and of a determined political opposition. Yet surely there are more effective alternative...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Where a free man can abide with honor
- "But I have no wish to be discharged" : when imprisonment became political
- Night and fog : the regime and its prisoners
- "Everyone learned prison" : becoming a political prisoner
- "You have the consolation of being very much in the fight" : the cause in prison
- "How to free your prisoner" : the personal and the political of international prisoner support
- "A close-knit group, chosen with care" : community and order in the political camp and prison
- "I was confusing the prison" : the contest in the cell
- "Why wouldn't I laugh, when I win either way?" : the hunger strike
- "This purgatory is useful" : how prison forges politics
- Conclusion: The politics of prisoners' stories
- Epilogue: "Nobody survives Guantanamo" : a political prison today
- Notes
- Archives consulted.