Ethnographic reflexivity and ethics of community in the new mass carceral zone
While the worldwide prison population has risen little in the twenty-first century in proportion to general population, in Latin America, it has more than doubled. Across the region, inmates are left to organize themselves in understaffed cellblocks to survive some of the world’s most overcrowded an...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Carceral communities in Latin America
Year: 2021, Pages: 1-35 |
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| Summary: | While the worldwide prison population has risen little in the twenty-first century in proportion to general population, in Latin America, it has more than doubled. Across the region, inmates are left to organize themselves in understaffed cellblocks to survive some of the world’s most overcrowded and inhumane prison conditions. This volume brings forward a unique sample of in-depth reflexive ethnographic research from ten Latin American jurisdictions that explore the multifaceted practical and ethical problems of regional carceral acceleration. In this opening chapter, two of the volume editors put forward a theory of carceral community in direct challenge to common theoretical understandings of biopolitics and sovereignty in the Latin American context, and the influence of carcerality on other communities and national publics. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 30-35 |
| ISBN: | 9783030614980 |
