Faros y pantanos. Una historia de las prisiones provinciales argentinas (Córdoba, Santa Fe y Tucumán, 1853-1946)

• Main Author: González Alvo, Luis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Madrid Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Figuerola Institute of Social Science History 2022
• Series: Historia del Derecho 108
• Subjects: History; Prisons; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Argentina; Prison history; Argentinian prisons; Penitentiary reform; Penitentiary paradigm; Historia de la prisión; Cárceles argentinas; Penitenciarismo; Reforma penitenciaria; Paradigma penitenciario
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Beacons and swamps is a proposal for dialogue with the historiography of Argentine prisons, which saw provincial prisons as "swamps": immobile, grey, unchanging spaces. Although it is true that the pace of change in the provinces differed enormously from that of the capital, the work of th...