Borders Are Strange Places: Borders of the State to Boundaries of the Prison

Abstract

This chapter explores the histories of colonial practices and policies that sought to dispossess, assimilate, exploit and segregate Indigenous people in the process of imposing colonial borders and sovereign jurisdictions. We elucidate how these histories surface in the contemporary imprisonment of Indigenous people. In doing so, we challenge the liminal and spatial void in which Western Criminology operates to exclude history and place.