The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration

ISBN-13: 9783030399139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 337 str.

Jennifer Turner; Victoria Knight

Spis treści

List of Figures 

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Chapter 1: Dissecting the cell: Embodied and everyday spaces of incarceration

Jennifer Turner and Victoria Knight

Part One: The Nucleus

Chapter 2: ‘The solitude of the cell’: Cellular confinement in the emergence of the modern prison, 1850-1930

Helen Johnston

Chapter 3: Prison cells as a grounded embodiment of penal ideologies: A Norwegian-American comparison

Jordan M. Hyatt, Synøve N. Andersen and Steven L. Chanenson

Chapter 4: The Kubol effect: Shared governance and cell dynamics in an overcrowded prison system in the Philippines 

Raymund E. Narag and Clarke Jones

Chapter 5: ‘I feel trapped’: The role of the cell in the embodied and everyday practices of police custody 

Andrew Wooff

Part Two: Cytoplasm

Chapter 6: A ‘home’ or ‘a place to be, but not to live’: Arranging the prison cell

Irene Marti

Chapter 7: Prison as palimpsest: The dialectics of the cell and everyday life

The ACE Steering Committee

Chapter 8: Power in “no-cell” detention: Spatial restriction and domestication of space for foreign detainees in Romania

Bénédicte Michalon

Chapter 9: A family cell: Visual ethnography in a prison ‘Mothers’ section’

Rossella Schillaci

Part Three: The Cell Membrane

Chapter 10: Serving time with a sea view: The prison cell and healthy blue space

Jennifer Turner, Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes

Chapter 11: Hearing behind the door: The cell as a portal to prison life

Kate Herrity

Chapter 12: Prison cell spaces, bodies and touch

Elisabeth Fransson and Francesca Giofrè

Chapter 13: PrisonCloud: The beating heart of the digital prison cell

Jana Robberechts and Kristel Beyens

Chapter 14: Carceral projections: The lure of the cell and the heterotopia of play in Prison Escape Hanneke Stuit

Afterword 

Ben Crewe

Index

O autorze

Victoria Knight is Senior Research Fellow for the Community and Criminal Justice Division in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK. She has expertise and research experience in the use of digital technologies in prisons; emotion and criminal justice; and offender education. She is the author of Remote Control: Television in Prison (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Jennifer Turner is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research is concerned with spaces, practices, and representations of incarceration, past and present. She is the author of The Prison Boundary: Between Society and Carceral Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-editor of Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (Routledge, 2017).

Blurb

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell. It discusses the complexities of this specific carceral space and addresses its significance in relation to the everyday experiences of incarceration. The collected chapters highlight the array of processes and practices that shape carceral life, adding the cell to a rich area of discussion in penal scholarship, criminology, anthropology, sociology and carceral geography. The chapters highlight key aspects such as penal philosophies, power relationships, sensory and emotional engagements with place to highlight the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary perspectives on the prison cell: a contested place of home, labour and leisure. The Prison Cell’s empirical attention is global in its consideration, bringing together both contemporary and historical work that focuses upon the cell in the Global North and South including examples from a variety of geographical locations and settings, including police custody, prisons and immigrant detention centres. This book is an important and timely intervention in the growing and topical field of carceral studies. It presents the only standalone collection of essays with a sole focus on the space of the cell.