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SUMMARY:The Permeability of Prison:  Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia\, 1959-1
 979 - Jocelyn Alexander\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20131202T170000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:Maurice Nyagumbo was Rhodesia’s longest serving political pr
 isoner. He was held in a great variety of institutions and spaces (from so
 litary confinement in maximum security prisons to communal detention with 
 other nationalists in remote rural areas)\, and under vastly different leg
 al and material conditions over nearly twenty years. His life demonstrates
  that regimes of confinement were almost always permeable and contestable\
 , if in widely differing ways: Nyagumbo was literally ‘stuck’ but he w
 as nonetheless able to act on and in social and political worlds outside c
 onfinement. He used letters\, the law\, violence\, and relationships with 
 warders\, fellow nationalists\, lawyers\, historians\, and kin to contest 
 shifting prison regimes\, to manage the minutiae of his domestic and econo
 mic affairs\, and to influence debates over nationalism and the armed stru
 ggle.  The paper uses Nyagumbo’s life to explore the work that prisoner
 s were able to do beyond spaces of confinement. It draws on letters\, Nyag
 umbo’s jail memoir\, state and legal records\, and interviews. \n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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