"English playwright Howard Barker coined the term "Theatre of Catastrophe" to describe his unique brand of complex, poetic, ambiguous and, often, unsettling drama... Barker is also a celebrated poet, theatre theorist and painter. The first collection of interviews conducted with…
British playwright Howard Barker coined the term "theatre of catastrophe" to describe his unique brand of complex, poetic, ambiguous, and often unsettling drama. Revered by many - not least in continental Europe, North America and Australia - as one of the greatest living dramat…
To give an account of the emergence of this colonial form of penal power that was distinct from its metropolitan counterpart, this book analyses the British experience in India from the 1820s to the early 1920s. It provides a genealogy of both civil and military spheres of gover…
This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power - discipline - that had inserte…
"This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power - discipline - that had insert…
Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to understand these developments, bringing together leading authorities in the field to…