Conceptualizing detention: Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion

Mountz, A.; Coddington, K.; Loyd, J.; Catania, R.T.

doi:10.1177/0309132512460903

Conceptualizing detention: Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion

Mountz, A.; Coddington, K.; Loyd, J.; Catania, R.T.

Authors

A. Mountz

K. Coddington

J. Loyd

R.T. Catania

Abstract

Detention is a pressing empirical, conceptual, and political issue. Detained populations, detention facilities, and industries have expanded globally. Detention is also a fundamentally geographical topic, yet largely overlooked by geographers. We argue that detention be conceptualized as a series of geographical processes. Operating through these processes are contradictory sets of temporal and spatial logics that structure the seemingly paradoxical geographies underpinning detention. These logics include containment and mobility, bordering and exclusion. We trace these logics through an emergent literature, synthesizing and analyzing important geographic themes in the field. We identify contributions by and new avenues of inquiry for geographers.

Citation

Mountz, A., Coddington, K., Loyd, J., & Catania, R. (2012). Conceptualizing detention: Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion. Progress in Human Geography, 37(4), 522-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512460903

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 27, 2015
Publication Date	Aug 1, 2012
Deposit Date	May 27, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Mar 14, 2016
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Print ISSN	0309-1325
Electronic ISSN	1477-0288
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	37
Issue	4
Pages	522-541
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512460903

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Mountz, A. and Coddington, K. and Loyd, J. and Catania, R. T. (2012) 'Conceptualizing detention : mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion.', Progress in human geography., 37 (4). pp. 522-541. Copyright © 2012 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.