What a pleasure and a true honour it was to take part in the 5th International Conference on Punishment in the Global Peripheries in Cape Town, co-organized by the University of Cape Town, the National University of Litoral (Argentina), and the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. I feel incredibly grateful to have shared these days with such inspiring scholars. Our conversations ranged from hunger in Brazilian prisons and starvation in colonial India, to maximum-security prisons in Turkey and carceral governance in Latin America, among many others.
I was particularly honoured to present my research on the privilege system in Japanese prisons for the first time and to receive such encouraging feedback.
A huge thank you to the organizers for this wonderful conference, and for their hospitality and their warmth. A very special thank you to 岩崎風水-san for kindly allowing me to use one of his drawings in my presentation.