RT Article
T1 Liminality revisited: Mapping the emotional adaptations of women in carceral space
JF Punishment & society
VO 23
IS 3
SP 394
OP 412
A1 Jewkes, Yvonne 1966-
A1 Laws, Ben
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1761550306
AB This article draws on interview data with women in two prisons in the UK to understand the emotionally nuanced and sensorially attuned relationship between confined individuals and carceral space. The article presents an ‘emotional map’ comprising: (i) living or ‘being’ spaces; (ii) free places; and (iii) ‘therapeutic spaces’ in prisons.This tri-spatial thematic analysis enables us to use Victor Turner’s concepts of ‘liminality’ and ‘communitas’ to uncover the complex, contradictory and sometimes transient emotions that permeate spaces in prison. This in turn allows us to explore the particular challenges that accompany transitional periods of adjustment to prison life, the environmental constraints that women in prison live with and navigate, and the careful ‘spatial selection’ strategies they implement in order to seek or avoid particular emotional states.
K1 Women
K1 Space
K1 Senses
K1 Prisons
K1 Liminality
K1 Environment
K1 Emotions
K1 Communitas
DO 10.1177/1462474520959623