Roundtable: Prison Tourism Roundtable 2

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Drawing on selected chapters from the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism edited by Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché and Kevin Walby, the papers presented in these sessions explore the production, communication, and consumption of cultural representations of confinement and punishment in prison museums across the world. Each panel begins with discussant remarks concerning key methodological, theoretical and substantive issues debated in prison tourism scholarship, followed by the paper presentations, and a period for audience critiques and questions.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Inventing a Colonial Dark Tourism Site: The Derby Boab ‘Prison Tree - Elizabeth Grant, The University of Adelaide

• Remembering and Forgetting the Gulag: Prison Tourism in the Former Soviet Union - Gavin Slade, University of Glasgow

• Jennifer Fleetwood - Jennifer Fleetwood, University of Leicester

Chair

• Jacqueline Zara Wilson, Federation University Australia

Discussants

• Justin Piché, University of Ottawa

• Kevin Walby, University of Winnipeg