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Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915-60: Empire’s Other Histories

Autor Stacey Hynd
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2023
Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and 'civilization' could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions.In this book, Stacey Hynd follows the whole process of capital punishment from the identification of a murder victim to trial and conviction, through the process of mercy and sentencing onto death row and execution. The scandals that erupted over the death penalty, from botched executions and moral panics over ritual murder, to the hanging of anti-colonial rebels for 'terrorist' and emergency offences, provide significant insights into the shifting moral and political economies of colonial violence. This monograph contextualises the death penalty within the wider penal systems and coercive networks of British colonial Africa to highlight the shifting targets of the imperial gallows against rebels, robbers or domestic murderers. Imperial Gallows demonstrates that while hangings were key elements of colonial iconography in British Africa, symbolically loaded events that demonstrated imperial power and authority, they also reveal the limits of that power.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350302648
ISBN-10: 1350302643
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Empire’s Other Histories

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides a comparative study on murder and the death penalty in British colonial Africa through three case studies

Notă biografică

Stacey Hynd is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include articles in Journal of African History, International Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Journal of West African History, amongst others.

Cuprins

Introduction - Capital Punishment and Colonial Rule: Race, Violence and 'Civilization' in British Africa1. 'The Extreme Penalty of the Law': Law, Courts and Colonial Criminal Justice 2. The 'Ultimate Deterrent' in a Colonial Context? Contestations in Colonial Penal Regimes3. To Hang or Not to Hang? Capital Sentencing, Constructions of Deviance, and the Prerogative of Mercy4. Cultural Defence Narratives, African Agency and the Landscape of Mercy5. Murder and the Maintenance of 'Law and Order': Colonial Violence and Capital Punishment6. Shocking Crimes and Scandalous Punishments: Imperial Politics, Humanitarian Sentiment and the Death Penalty7. 'In a Humane and Decorous Manner': Rituals of Execution from Public Executions to Death RowConclusion Bibliography Index