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In our concluding chapter, we reflect on the politics of history-making and the erasure of both carceral and activist histories in the present. As we outline the contemporary context of gendered prison reform and expansion, we bring our analysis full circle, commenting on the broader legacies of anti-carceral feminist contributions for abolitionist movement building and future campaigns dedicated to dismantling carceral systems of violence and injustice.

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    ‘Ha ha’ refers to a sunken or recessed wall or a landscape feature of a garden originating in seventeenth-century France. It has a trench on one side purposely creating a barrier so that the wall is tall and inaccessible. However, from the other side of the wall the structure appears low and embedded into the landscape. Ha ha were used to fortify Australian Victorian lunatic asylums. They were used to present a tall face to inmates and a barrier to escape. However, when standing back before the trenches, inmates had a view of the landscape beyond the institution. For those looking at the asylum from the outside, the walls did not provide an impression of imprisonment because they were sunken into the earth. Asylums such as Yarra Bend, Beechworth and Kew all featured ha ha walls (see Semple-Kerr 1988).

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    Bree Carlton

  2. Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Emma K. Russell

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Carlton, B., Russell, E.K. (2018). Conclusion. In: Resisting Carceral Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01695-1_8

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