Oral Histories, Public Engagement and the Making of Positive in Prison

Weston, Janet

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“…18 This practice of segregation in a separate wing or unit was also adopted in the Republic of Ireland and Portugal, and later in Greece, Sweden, and Bulgaria as well. 19 In 1987, only six countries reported no special restrictions at all on the accommodation, movement, or activities of prisoners with HIV/ AIDS: Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. 20 It is notable that these decisions to implement special restrictions or separate units were often driven by direct action in various forms.…”

Section: International Recommendations and Their Implementationmentioning

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Responding to HIV/AIDS in European prisons, 1980s–2000s

2022

Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe

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The impact of HIV/ AIDS on prisons (and vice versa) has received minimal attention within histories of the epidemic. Yet, researchers agree that 'HIV hit prisons early and it hit them hard'. 1 Prisons were flagged as locations of concern very early on. Their residents, like other already-marginalised groups whose lives became entangled with HIV/ AIDS, became a source of anxiety among policy-makers and the media alike. Injecting drug use before and during incarceration, sex between men in prison, violence among inmates and towards staff, overcrowding and bad hygiene, and the poor general health of many of those behind bars were all highlighted as factors potentially contributing to the rapid spread of disease. 2 This, coupled with concern about the provision of adequate clinical and palliative care for prisoners affected by HIV/ AIDS and possible infringements of their rights, prompted international organisations to gather information and issue specific recommendations for HIV/ AIDS and prisons in 1987-8. 3 Such recommendations emphasised education, integration of people with HIV/ AIDS into normal prison life, special efforts to avoid stigma and discrimination, and the need for services and standards of healthcare within prisons to match those existing elsewhere in the community.Despite these clear recommendations, policy and practice in prisons remained the object of criticism throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s. 4 These ongoing concerns, along with some elements of secrecy and stigma adhering to prisons, help to explain why prisons and their occupants have featured little in histories of HIV/ AIDS; successful activism, charismatic leadership, and a clear trajectory of change is difficult to locate. Researchers from contemporary and historical perspectives alike have ascribed the lack of

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Section: International Recommendations and Their Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responding to HIV/AIDS in European prisons, 1980s–2000s

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Histories of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe

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“…However, arts-based engagement approaches can also be used to provide insights of relevance for the research itself and how it evolves, for example, to help provide new interpretations of research data that can help in sense-making [17,39]. To illustrate, a research project examining how to translate women's experiences of responses to their safety concerns in pregnancy into useful health information used insights gained from participants in the development of a health information resource for pregnant women to evolve the scope of the research study [40].…”

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“…An example of this type of missed opportunity can also be found in the literature. For example, Weston (2019) notes that a playwright she worked with to translate her interview-based research on the impact of HIV/AIDS in a prison in Dublin, Ireland, into an audio drama highlighted gaps in the underlying research study [39]. Through her thorough review of the interview transcripts, the playwright observed a complete absence of former prisoners amongst the interviewees.…”

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“…The performing arts identified as part of artsbased public engagement with research in the papers we reviewed include theatre, storytelling through audio dramas, and other expressive art forms such as dance, body mapping and music. Some authors suggest that qualitative, interview-based research lends itself especially well to engagement through narrative forms of art such as theatre or storytelling [15,18,39].…”

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“…• Other performing arts: Although they appear to be used less frequently, the literature review identified other examples of performing arts, such as audio-drama [39], dance [11,24,44], body mapping -a creative visual process where experiences are expressed through movement in the body to help people identify how the world has impacted their body through experiences such as injury or illness [28], and music…”

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Arts-based approaches to public engagement with research: Lessons from a rapid review

Ball¹,

Leach²,

Bousfield³

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The visual arts: photography and Photovoice (a method that uses photography to help participants capture and reflect VIII on issues of interest and that emphasises community engagement and the promotion of social change), videos (film and animations), digital media, drawing, paintings, sculpture and a variety of visual-based public displays designed to engage the public in research as their core interventions.Performing arts: theatre, storytelling through audio dramas, and other expressive art forms such as dance, body mapping (a visual technique through which bodily experiences of participants are considered and shared), and music.Games: video games, a board game, and street-based games. Immersive art installations:these can incorporate multiple arts-based techniques and be exhibited as pop-up installations, for example, at festivals.

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“It Has Made Me Think”: Engaging the Public with the History of Health in the Modern Irish Prison

Cox

Wall

2022

J Med Humanit

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Since the establishment of the modern prison system in the early nineteenth century, prisons and prisoners have been construed as sites of moral, social, and biological contagion. Historic and contemporary studies show that most prisoners experience severe health inequalities, higher rates of addiction and mental health issues, and lower life expectancy than the rest of the population. They also come from deprived social strata. Yet, these aspects of Irish penal history have been largely neglected in academia and popular histories. Our article discusses two public history projects—an art installation, The Trial, and a museum exhibition, Living Inside—that engaged different publics with the long history of health and welfare in Irish prisons. Developed by the research team on the Wellcome Trust Investigator Award “Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000,” based at University College Dublin, the projects adopted different methodologies to engage their audiences and explore the experience and management of health and welfare in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish prisons. We further examine the different methodological approaches of each project, their varied aims and audiences, and the impacts reported by audiences and participants. The article also considers some of the challenges of doing this kind of public history, both in terms of working with marginalized communities and presenting research about difficult subjects to various audiences.

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Oral Histories, Public Engagement and the Making of Positive in Prison

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Responding to HIV/AIDS in European prisons, 1980s–2000s

Responding to HIV/AIDS in European prisons, 1980s–2000s

Arts-based approaches to public engagement with research: Lessons from a rapid review

“It Has Made Me Think”: Engaging the Public with the History of Health in the Modern Irish Prison

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