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30 Soc. & Legal Stud. 3 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/solestu30 and id is 1 raw text is: > 0 C AL Article Social & Legal Studies 2021, Vol. 30(1) 3-13 Special Issue: Genealogies © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: of Indefinite Detention ;I1. ,6p;so DOI: 10. 1 1 77/0964663920963 394 journals.sagepub.com/home/sls *SAGE Mehera San Roque University of New South Wales, Australia Abstract This introduction provides an overview of the collection of papers in this special issue on genealogies of indefinite detention. This collection of papers builds on the work of Professor Penny Pether (1957 - 2013), in particular her book proposal, 'Perverts, terrorists, and business as usual: Comparative Indefinite Detentions before and after 9/1l'. Keywords indefinite detention, comparative, genealogies, Penny Pether, Australia Killing time involves a simple trick / Reach out and hold another sunset / Another one of the thousand-colour Manusian sunsets / Then, reach out and hold another night / Another one of the dark island nights / A futile cycle ... / Night and day revolving / Under the shade of an old tree. (Behrouz Boochani) In 2018, the Manus Island Recording Collective produced 'How are you today?' The work consists of 84 daily recordings of exactly 10 minutes, 14 hours in total, sent 'on shore' to Melbourne, Australia from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Each recording, sent via WhatsApp, capturing a fragment of the daily life of one of six men then confined to this small island at the edge of the Bismarck Sea.1 These recordings were then played in a Melbourne art gallery at a fixed time each day.2 The six were among the nearly 2000 asylum Corresponding author: Mehera San Roque, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia. Email: m.sanroque@unsw.edu.au

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