RT Article
T1 Finding freedom and rethinking power: Islamic piety in English high security prisons
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 3
SP 730
OP 748
A1 Williams, Ryan J.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1572489499
AB Prison ethnographers are often confronted with everyday examples of people trying to achieve some conception of the human good. Yet, descriptions of how people achieve this good in a prison environment—the techniques and aspirations of the ethical subject—are rare. With the help of recent developments in the anthropology of ethics and Foucault’s later work on freedom, this article examines the formation of ethical subjectivity practiced by some Muslim prisoners in two English high security prisons. The case of Muslim piety serves to deepen ethnographic research through recognizing the place of freedom and ethics in everyday life, and challenges criminological accounts of power and agency in view of how people accomplish virtue.
K1 Islam
K1 Prison
K1 Ethics
K1 Resistance
K1 Foucault, Michel
K1 Power
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Muslime
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx034