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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Marc Goulding; Teresa Meade; Margaret Power Abstract This essay explores several key themes regarding political imprisonment and confinement. Neither governments nor activists agree on who is and who is not a political prisoner. Governments routinely deny they imprison people for political reasons...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 105–119.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the designation political prisoner itself. To begin, the article outlines and contextualizes their opposing positions—Berrigan’s view, common among radicals at the time, that all imprisonment is political, and the Boggses’ fear that lumping together political and nonpolitical prisoners would result in theoretical...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 30–48.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Mónica A. Jiménez Abstract This article focuses on the political life and imprisonment of the author’s great-aunt, Monserrate del Valle del Toro, a Puerto Rican nationalist and onetime political prisoner. Monserrate was arrested in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on October 30, 1950, for participating...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 199–222.
Published: 01 May 2017
... a reimagined geography of liberation that simultaneously declared
solidarity while also disrupting narratives of US exceptionalism — what we might
term the articulation of Palestine in the Puerto Rican political imaginary.15 Drawing
primarily on the writings of individuals imprisoned for alleged...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 129–150.
Published: 01 May 2023
... participatory research conducted with a group of former political prisoners, all of whom survived torture during El Salvador’s armed conflict (1980–92) and are involved in present-day organizing for truth, justice, and reparations. Although the practices of political imprisonment and torture were widespread...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 11–31.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that was explicitly oriented toward guerrilla warfare, corroborates long-standing but often discounted assertions by targets of state repression that the US government assassinated imprisoned activists. Dhoruba is not the only one to make such claims. For example, in 1987, the former BPP/BLA political prisoner Jalil...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 178–202.
Published: 01 May 2023
... prisoners were imprisoned on Robben Island—many for years, some for decades. Something like 1,300 such prisoners were still incarcerated there as apartheid began to collapse. Reflecting apartheid principles, political prisoners on the island were all male and officially classified as non-White; Whites...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 84–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Understanding political imprisonment during this dark period of Argentina’s history, then, requires an analysis of the legal and regulatory framework governing the prison system. First, I will briefly describe the role played by traditional positivist criminology in constructing the profile of the political...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 153–164.
Published: 01 January 2016
... detained without due process and
were held for months, only to be released without formal charges. Military tribunals
charged others under the country’s Internal Security Law or Arms Control Law.
Between 1973 and 1974, political imprisonment and torture affected more than two
thousand people...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 226–228.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Lira is a clinical psychologist who has worked with victims of human rights vio-
lations and torture in Chile since the 1970s. She served on the National Commission on
Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Commission, 2003 – 5 and 2010 – 2011). With
Brian Loveman she has written numerous...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 177–179.
Published: 01 January 2007
...
Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture in Chile (2003 – 5). Since 1996 she has
collaborated with Brian Loveman on a research project investigating patterns of political
reconciliation and resistances of memory, especially in Chile. She is currently the president
of the Consejo Superior de...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (124): 129–140.
Published: 01 January 2016
... and détente. One well-known former
political police agent, who deserted in 1975, made his way to Europe and began to
talk. He has a long-standing and quite particular relationship with some survivors
of clandestine centers where he was stationed and they were imprisoned. He has
joined the class...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 74–81.
Published: 01 January 2003
... in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nica-
ragua, and southern Africa during the 1970s and 1980s would eventually find them-
selves imprisoned for their dissent.
Political Prisoners, Imprisoned Intellectuals, and the War(s) on Terrorism
I continuously seek...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 120–122.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., some would label me a political prisoner. I highlight my own circumstances to demonstrate the difficulty of definitively classifying those behind the walls. In the Boggses’ opinion, there are only two classes of imprisoned people: political prisoners and criminals. Martin Sostre held a broader view...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 9–32.
Published: 01 October 2006
... and intimately
imprisoned all but disappear from the political and moral register of U.S. civil soci-
ety and its resident establishment Left.6 Even amid budding antiprison and prison
abolitionist activisms and critical scholarly praxes, black, brown, and indigenous suf-
fering, survival, and civil/social...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 34–62.
Published: 01 May 2007
....
Though my central examples will be drawn from the history of anarchist
trials, executions, and imprisonments, these also illustrate how political dissidents
more broadly confronted state punishment in the late nineteenth and early twen-
tieth centuries. In this essay, I utilize the Russian Populist...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 34–53.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that sculptors used imprisoned and fugitive figures to craft a discourse about power in the absence of both a strong state and a regime of punitive incarceration. Compelling pictures of prisoners and verbal images of captivity flourished as a kind of carceral imaginary in the public landscape before the carceral...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 142–168.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of Haitian refugees and obscure the effects of its practices —
subjecting thousands of people to imprisonment, denial of fundamental rights, and
return to economic, political, and social violence. The state has cast interdiction
as a humanitarian act that protected refugees who have irresponsibly...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 11–29.
Published: 01 October 2016
.... For example, in 1827, fifteen of seventeen guards employed by Auburn State Penitentiary
were described as “American born.” “Appendix A,” Journal of the Senate, 31.
6. Rebecca M. McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making
of the American Penal State, 1770 – 1941 (New...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 155–156.
Published: 01 October 2006
... 2006 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Ethan Blue is a lecturer in American history at the University of Western Australia. His cur-
rent research focuses on race and the cultures of punishment in the United States in the
1930s. He has also written on the cultural politics of the New Right.
Rose...
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