Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective

Abstract

It has been over twenty years since the publication of Florence Bernault's edited volume Enfermement, prison et châtiments en Afrique: du 19e siècle à nos jours (1999), a first of its kind collection that helped establish the field of African penal history. 1 Since then, this field has greatly expanded (

Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

“…But there are also emerging efforts that refer to wider peripheral regions, usually built on collaborative relationships between different authors, and often taking shape as special issues in academic journals and edited collections. For example, there have been several such efforts on penality in Latin America (Bergman and Fondevilla, 2021; Darke and Garces, 2017; Darke et al, 2021; Hathazy and Muller, 2016; Sozzo, 2022), Africa (Alexander and Kynoch, 2011; Braatz et al, 2022; Morelle et al, 2021) and Asia (Ganapathy and Balachandran, 2016; Lee and Karen, 2013).…”