French Institutes of Advanced Study Visiting Fellowship - The Afterlives of France’s Mediterranean Coastal and Island Prisons

Description

This project examines how former spaces of incarceration along France’s Mediterranean coast are represented and memorialized. In particular, the project analyses the complex intersections between environmental concerns, tourism and heritage, and prison histories. While sites along France’s Mediterranean coast are popular tourist destinations or areas of special environmental interest, they have also historically held another important role: as prisons. Through cultural ethnography, museological and literary analysis, and archival research, the project will analyse how prison histories have been memorialized, represented and/or forgotten, and will examine the tension between histories of incarceration, the tourist industry and Mediterranean island and coastal ecologies.

Period	1 Sept 2026 → 30 Jun 2027
Degree of Recognition	International