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color=#ff0000>"Australia and the Island Prison: Christmas Island Immigration
Detention Centre as State of Exception"</FONT> - presented by Jude
McCullough</FONT></BIG></BIG></BIG></B></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B><BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT face=Tahoma size=5>Head of Criminology at Monash
University. A free lunchtime talk. </FONT></BIG></BIG></BIG></B></DIV><BR>
<DIV><B><BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT size=4><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=5>Thursday 14
June, 1.00-2.00pm in the Dept of Criminology Staff Common Room</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Tahoma><B><BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT size=5>(School of
Political Science, Criminology and Sociology, University of
Melbourne)</FONT></BIG></BIG></BIG></B> </FONT></FONT></DIV><BR>
<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT face=Tahoma><B><BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT size=5>Level 4,
234 Queensberry Street, Carlton.</FONT></BIG></BIG></BIG></B>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=4>The island has often been used as a metaphor to
describe prison. In the past literal islands were frequently used to isolate,
exclude and to punish ... The island continent of Australia was
originally established as a penal colony and employed its islands as locations
of secondary punishment for recalcitrant convicts and to isolate and punish
Indigenous people. The presentation will examine the contemporary spatial
politics of exclusion and isolation in Island detention centres and the
various ways these physical islands relate to the 'state of exception' as
articulated in the work of political philosopher Georgio Agamben ...
focusing particularly on the high-tech detention centre currently under
construction on Australia's remote Christmas Island.</FONT> </DIV><BR>
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