“Down and Out in Exile Park”
| Title | “Down and Out in Exile Park” |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | Thompson, Tade |
| Secondary Authors | Strahan, Jonathan(b. 1964) |
| Secondary Title | Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene |
| Pagination | 27-44 |
| Date Published | 2022 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press |
| Place Published | Cambridge, MA |
| ISBN Number | 978-0-26254-443-6 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author, Nigerian author |
| Annotation | The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts. |
| Illustration | Illus. Sean Bodley |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England. |
| Full Text | 2022 Thompson, Tade. “Down and Out in Exile Park.” Illus. Sean Bodley. Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 27-44. PSt The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts. The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England. |
