H Blocks: An architecture of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland

Cover\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nIllustrations\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n	Different routes through the H Blocks: the architecture and this book\n	Architecture in absence\n	Conflict in conflict histories\n1 Building the Blocks\n	Panopticons: visual and material\n	H Blocks: a Home Office design\n	Prison plan and penal regime\n	Internment and ‘special category’ prisoners\n	Long Kesh internment centre: a material form of detention without trial\n	HMP Maze (Cellular): construction and design\n2 Living in the Cells\n	Fortress\n	Uniform and cell\n	Building and dwelling\n	The rules of clothing\n	Materiality and resistance\n	Cell and body: Collective, individual, personal\n	Cultures of resistance: Smells and sounds\n	Building resistance\n3 The Global Witness and the Hunger Strike\n	The prison on the streets: symbolic struggles\n	The witness and the symbol: the body and the building\n	Relatives: the route from the prison to the streets\n	Global witness: protestor\n	Necropolitics and the Hunger Strike\n	H Blocks: material symbols\n	Global witness: person\n	The Blanket Man and the rights-bearing body\n	The Blanket Man as Hunger Striker: media, art and memory\n4 Women Visitors: Waiting to Understand Prison Architecture\n	Prisons were very much part of our lives for a long, long time7\n	Understanding architecture\n	On waiting\n5 Erasure: The Last Murals and Final Performance of Long Kesh/Maze\n	Liberated zone\n	Performance\n	Murals\n	Loyalist Eddie: interpretation against erasure\n	Murals: appropriation and erasure\n6 On eBay: Who Owns the Keys of the H Blocks?\n	Babylon back to Babylon\n	Keys to the H Blocks: stuff you can buy\n	On eBay\n	Algorithms write alternatives: division into juxtaposition\n	The politics of the last atrocity and the work of an art historian\n	The material culture of imprisonment\n	Dismantling and debris, closure and circulation\n	Prison art and the personhood of the prisoner\n	Small batch commodity production of the histories of repression: paper and metal\n	The keys to the H Blocks and the price of history\n	Keys\n	In the market for difficult heritage\nConclusion\n	Historical loss\n	Managing history\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex