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Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century

Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century

Darke, Sacha
Garces, Chris
Duno-Gottberg, Luis

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

AnthropologyCriminology

ISBN10: 3030615014
ISBN13: 9783030615017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 29 2022
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region - Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic - while theorizing how day-to-day life for the incarcerated has been forged in tandem between prison facilities and the outside world. The editors and contributors to this volume ask: how have fastest-rising incarceration rates in the world affected civilians' lives in different national contexts? How do groups of prisoners form broader and more integrated 'carceral communities' across day-to-day relations of exchange and reciprocity with guards, lawyers, family, associates, and assorted neighbors? What differences exist between carceral communities from one national context to another? Last but not least, how do carceral communities, contrary to popular opinion, necessarily become a productive force for the good and welfare of incarcerated subjects, in addition to being a potential source of troubling violence and insecurity? This edited collection represents the most rigorous scholarship to date on the prison regimes of Latin America and the Caribbean, exploring the methodological value of ethnographic reflexivity inside prisons and theorizing how daily life for the incarcerated challenges preconceptions of prisoner subjectivity, so-called prison gangs, and bio-political order.

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