ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that geographers working on and in spaces of incarceration could usefully consider and/or deploy some of the theorisations of time emergent within human geography. In considering time in carceral space, carceral geographers might usefully look both to human geography and to criminology and prison sociology. The chapter focuses on the development of time geography based on the recent review of growing body of work by Robert Dodgshon, beginning with Hgerstrand, tracing the emergence of the various different ways in which a relationship between time and space has been negotiated within human geography. It highlights the potential areas of synergy between human geography and criminology/prison sociology in terms of the consideration of time. Recent work in human geography has stressed the innate variability of time, with a shift from objectified interpretations of time to a concern with relational forms of lived and experiential time.
