Prison spaces and beyond: the potential of ethnographic zoom

Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya; Jefferson, Andrew M.; Ugelvik, Thomas

doi:10.1080/09627251.2013.778758

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“…As Martin et al (2014) explains, prisons located outside the Global North that have been theoretically analysed from the standpoint of Western prisons are defined by their deficiencies. Thus, prisons in the Global South have been perceived as too complicated, too dangerous, not sufficiently developed or lawless spaces (Bandyopadhyay et al, 2013;Garces et al, 2013). For example, mainstream research about Latin American prisons denotes a focus on the state abandonment and neglect, staff numbers who cannot guard the growing penitentiary population, and the decay of the infrastructure.…”

Section: Coloniality Of Knowledge and The Hegemonic Analysis Of Prisons At The Global Southmentioning

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Coloniality of Power and Coloniality of Knowledge: Prisons in Peru as Post-colonial and Patriarchal Institutions

Bruce¹

2021

Prison in Peru

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Section: Coloniality Of Knowledge and The Hegemonic Analysis Of Prisons At The Global Southmentioning

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Coloniality of Power and Coloniality of Knowledge: Prisons in Peru as Post-colonial and Patriarchal Institutions

Bruce¹

2021

Prison in Peru

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“…Leaving “supermax” prisons aside, many prisons around the world entail staff–prisoner face-to-face interactions (Cheliotis, 2014; Crewe, 2009; Liebling, 2004; Mathiesen, 1965; Piacentini, 2004). In such prisons, officers have to rely, to a greater or lesser degree, on relationships and cultivate social order with prisoners (Bandyopadhyay, Jefferson, & Ugelvik, 2013; Crewe, 2009; Liebling, 2004; McDermott & King, 1988; Sparks et al, 1996; Sykes, 1958; Symkovych, 2018a). This proximity and interdependency militates against the sustained, excessive, or indiscriminate use of force.…”

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The Legal and Illegal Use of Force by Prison Officers in Ukraine

Symkovych¹

2018

The Prison Journal

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Although prison order rarely rests on naked force, its availability defines a prison. A penological truism holds that officers' deployment of force signals a breakdown in order, not normality. However, is the truism universally valid? Adding evidence from a former Soviet bloc country, the study examines the place of force in officers' daily work in a men's medium-security prison in Ukraine. Drawing on a semiethnographic study, the findings show that even though availability of force was central to preventing escapes and securing prisoner compliance, its actual deployment was relatively rare. Officers' consideration and actual use of both legal and illegal force depended on legal ramifications, the position of the superiors, and prisoner reaction. It also reflected their views on the adequacy of formal penal power and legitimacy of force for corrective purposes.

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“…Prison ethnographies conducted in cultural contexts other than Anglo-American ones, where the dominant framing of prison studies occurred, show how different cultural varieties of incarceration can combine with globalized forms of penal power. They also contribute to a comparative understanding of the fusing of prison-specific and culturespecific aspects of carceral worlds (Bandyopadhyay 2010, Bandyopadhyay, Jefferson and Ugelvik 2013, Garces, Martin and Darke 2013, Piacentini 2004, Reed 2004. In a related vein, a diversified prison ethnographic landscape can enhance reflexivity in terms of the categories used in ethnographic analysis.…”

Section: Reflexivity In Prison Field Researchmentioning

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The Ethnography of Prisons and Penal Confinement

Cunha

2014

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

125

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Centered on the ethnography of prisons and field research on penal confinement, this review maps out current developments and characterizes them in relation to key themes that shaped earlier approaches. Further internationalizing the ethnographic discussion on prisons by broadening the predominant focus on the United States and the English-speaking world, the review is organized around a main line of discussion: the prison–society relation and the articulation between intramural and extramural worlds. More or less apparent in field research, this articulation is addressed from different perspectives—within and across different scales and analytic frames—whether centered more on the workings of the institution or on prisoners and their social worlds, both within and outside walls. The porosity of prison boundaries, increasingly acknowledged, has also been problematized and ethnographically documented in different ways: from prison-in-context to interface approaches, both more reflexive and attuned to broader theoretical debates.

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Prison spaces and beyond: the potential of ethnographic zoom

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

Coloniality of Power and Coloniality of Knowledge: Prisons in Peru as Post-colonial and Patriarchal Institutions

Coloniality of Power and Coloniality of Knowledge: Prisons in Peru as Post-colonial and Patriarchal Institutions

The Legal and Illegal Use of Force by Prison Officers in Ukraine

The Ethnography of Prisons and Penal Confinement

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