Carceral alliance: vernacular professionalization and containment in Puerto Rican drug rehabilitation
This chapter explores an alliance that is crystallizing in post-industrial Puerto Rico between drug offenders’ search for job opportunities and state projects of containment. It explores this alliance through the concept of “vernacular professionalization.” This refers to a dual strategy that is at...
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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: 213-231 |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Summary: | This chapter explores an alliance that is crystallizing in post-industrial Puerto Rico between drug offenders’ search for job opportunities and state projects of containment. It explores this alliance through the concept of “vernacular professionalization.” This refers to a dual strategy that is at once an entrepreneurial life project through which criminalized men seek to cultivate a labor market niche as “certified re-educated ex-addicts,” and also a governing strategy through which the commonwealth state seeks to lower the cost of containing and rehabilitating drug offenders. It argues that vernacular professionalization flourishes as a collective collusion only because of the utility these subjects pose to the carceral state, not because it opens a viable route to social mobility outside of this circumscribed carceral circuit. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-231 |
| ISBN: | 9783030614980 |
