RT Article
T1 The affective post-prison
JF Criminological encounters
VO 6
IS 1
SP 169
OP 175
A1 Johns, Diana
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898857563
AB In this piece I explore spaces and practices of carcerality in and through which prisoner identities are carried, reproduced and reconstituted beyond the prison. I show how prison leaks into the community by clinging to bodies, habits and identities, and how prisoner ways of being are carried physically, socially and symbolically. I show, too, how these ‘post-prison’ forms gather and manifest in places and spaces of exclusion, repetition and performance. I explore how those spaces are inhabited as an ongoingly interstitial form of carcerality - a liminal state of inbetweenness - that keeps people imprisoned even after they have been physically released; people can be no-longer-imprisoned, yet not quite free. From this perspective, the post-prison can be imagined as the affective shadow of the prison. I use the concept of assemblage to trace the material and semiotic lines that flow from the prison into these spaces - the in-between places - to show how the prison shadows people’s lives, how prison shadows linger, and how these lingering shadows constitute the affective post-prison. To convey the sense of being caught or suspended in this shadow place of carceral liminality, I draw on interviews with formerly imprisoned men and post-release support workers in Australia.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-174
K1 Affective criminology
K1 carceral liminality
K1 Ex-prisoners
K1 post-prison
DO 10.26395/CE.2023.1.13