Conceptualising Singapore’s detention ‘painscape’: trauma, identity & resilience

Singapore's long history of political imprisonment is a controversial issue, which continues to be silenced and censored by the state. Through discussion of first-hand accounts, this presentation seeks to shed light on the nature of this practice.

About the speaker

Dr Ariel Athwal-Yap is an interdisciplinary lecturer in the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University.

Ariel is currently investigating relevant administrative policy and the assemblage of punitive practices that comprise sites of confinement, to provide a better understanding of domestic and international models for dealing with crime.

Ariel's recent publications include Capital punishment in Singapore; A Review of the Clear Space Online Family online family violence behavioural change program for GBTQ+ men and non-binary people; Trauma - Prolonged and Accumulative: The impact of Singapore detention without trial from the 1948 Malayan Emergency.

She continues to work with the Monash and Oxford Criminology institutes on joint projects.

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This seminar presentation will be in-person only.

Image credit: stylized image of a prisoner behind bars and barbed wire by Jared Rodriguez of Truthout from flickr (CCBY-NC-ND 2.0).