國立虎尾科技大學 |

Prisons and punishment in Texas = culture, history and museological representation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Prisons and punishment in Texas/ by Hannah Thurston.
Reminder of title:	culture, history and museological representation /
Author:	Thurston, Hannah.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	ix, 249 p. :ill., digital ; : 21 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Corrections - History. - Texas -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53308-1
ISBN:	9781137533081

Prisons and punishment in Texas = culture, history and museological representation /
Thurston, Hannah.

Prisons and punishment in Texasculture, history and museological representation /[electronic resource] :by Hannah Thurston. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - ix, 249 p. :ill., digital ;21 cm. - Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. - Palgrave studies in prisons and penology..

Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Scene for Museological Research -- Chapter 1. The Significance of Stories in Museum Research -- Chapter 2. Becoming a Texas Tourist -- Chapter 3. Telling Tales About a 'Tough Texas' -- Part II. Representing Punishment in the United States of America -- Chapter 4. Emotionality and Cultural Stories of (In)justice -- Chapter 5. The Cultural Life of Punishment in the Southern States -- Chapter 6. Narrative Possibilities in Cultural Life Research -- Part III. The Punishment Museums of the Lone Star State -- Chapter 7. Museum Stories of a Distinctly Tough Texas -- Chapter 8. Depicting Modern Punishment as Civilised Punishment -- Chapter 9. A Narrative Journey Through Inmate Identities -- Part IV. The Texan Self-Identity Past and Present -- Chapter 10. 'Texanicity' and its Punishment Dimensions -- Chapter 11. Texan Toughness and Lone Star Memories: The Alamo and the Old West -- Chapter 12. Re-imaging Texas as a Place of Harsh Punishment -- Epilogue.

This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories of Texan toughness in the penal sphere, as well as poignant stories about the witnessing of executions, comical stories that normalize the harsher aspects of Texan punishment, and presentations about prison officers who have lost their lives in the war on crime. In analysing these representations, the book shows that Texan history plays an important role in the production of Texan self-identity, and that to understand the Texan commitment to harsh punishment we must be prepared to focus on Texan myths and memories. Prisons and Punishment in Texas draws on diverse interdisciplinary work, including criminology, cultural studies about Southern values, as well as research on cultural memory and dark tourism. Museums are shown to be under-researched sites of criminological significance, which offer rich evidence through which penal imaginaries and the cultural role of punishment can be explored. The book will be of great interest to criminologists as well as scholars of sociology, cultural studies, museum studies and politics.

ISBN: 9781137533081

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-53308-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1110996
Corrections
--History.--Texas

LC Class. No.: HV9475.T4 / T58 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 365.9764

Prisons and punishment in Texas = culture, history and museological representation /
LDR:03365nam a2200325 a 4500 001 865447
003 DE-He213
005 20161206135718.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 170720s2016 enk s 0 eng d
020 $a 9781137533081 $q (electronic bk.)
020 $a 9781137533074 $q (paper)
024 7 $a 10.1057/978-1-137-53308-1 $2 doi
035 $a 978-1-137-53308-1
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a HV9475.T4 $b T58 2016
072 7 $a JKVP $2 bicssc
072 7 $a SOC030000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 365.9764 $2 23
090 $a HV9475.T4 $b T545 2016
100 1 $a Thurston, Hannah. $3 1110995
245 1 0 $a Prisons and punishment in Texas $h [electronic resource] : $b culture, history and museological representation / $c by Hannah Thurston.
260 $a London : $c 2016. $b Palgrave Macmillan UK : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
300 $a ix, 249 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 21 cm.
490 1 $a Palgrave studies in prisons and penology
505 0 $a Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Scene for Museological Research -- Chapter 1. The Significance of Stories in Museum Research -- Chapter 2. Becoming a Texas Tourist -- Chapter 3. Telling Tales About a 'Tough Texas' -- Part II. Representing Punishment in the United States of America -- Chapter 4. Emotionality and Cultural Stories of (In)justice -- Chapter 5. The Cultural Life of Punishment in the Southern States -- Chapter 6. Narrative Possibilities in Cultural Life Research -- Part III. The Punishment Museums of the Lone Star State -- Chapter 7. Museum Stories of a Distinctly Tough Texas -- Chapter 8. Depicting Modern Punishment as Civilised Punishment -- Chapter 9. A Narrative Journey Through Inmate Identities -- Part IV. The Texan Self-Identity Past and Present -- Chapter 10. 'Texanicity' and its Punishment Dimensions -- Chapter 11. Texan Toughness and Lone Star Memories: The Alamo and the Old West -- Chapter 12. Re-imaging Texas as a Place of Harsh Punishment -- Epilogue.
520 $a This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are presented, which show celebratory stories of Texan toughness in the penal sphere, as well as poignant stories about the witnessing of executions, comical stories that normalize the harsher aspects of Texan punishment, and presentations about prison officers who have lost their lives in the war on crime. In analysing these representations, the book shows that Texan history plays an important role in the production of Texan self-identity, and that to understand the Texan commitment to harsh punishment we must be prepared to focus on Texan myths and memories. Prisons and Punishment in Texas draws on diverse interdisciplinary work, including criminology, cultural studies about Southern values, as well as research on cultural memory and dark tourism. Museums are shown to be under-researched sites of criminological significance, which offer rich evidence through which penal imaginaries and the cultural role of punishment can be explored. The book will be of great interest to criminologists as well as scholars of sociology, cultural studies, museum studies and politics.
650 0 $a Corrections $z Texas $x History. $3 1110996
650 0 $a Prisons $z Texas $x History. $3 1110997
650 0 $a Punishment. $3 575465
650 1 4 $a Social Sciences. $3 655031
650 2 4 $a Prison and Punishment. $3 1104903
650 2 4 $a Crime and Society. $3 1104968
650 2 4 $a Criminological Theory. $3 1106067
650 2 4 $a Sociology of Culture. $3 1069629
650 2 4 $a American Culture. $3 1108141
650 2 4 $a Cultural Heritage. $3 678513
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
830 0 $a Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. $3 1006598
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53308-1
950 $a Social Sciences (Springer-41176)