Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal
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Summary: | The notion that prisons are a ‘world apart’, with their walls severing prisoners from their external relationships, and incarceration an interruption, ‘time away’ spent in a separate social universe, has provided an adequate framework for understanding the social realities of imprisonment in the past. But it has also created an analytical dead angle that prevents us from identifying the ramifying social effects of concentrated incarceration upon both the prison and heavily penalized lower-class neighborhoods. This article addresses these effects with data from an ethnographic revisit of a major women’s prison in Portugal, where the recomposition of the inmate population that has accompanied the rapid inflation of the country’s carceral population is especially pronounced and entails the activation of wide-ranging carceralized networks bringing kinship and neighborhood into the prison as well as the prison into the domestic world. The analysis focuses on the ways whereby these constellations have transformed the experience of confinement and the texture of correctional life, calling for a reconsideration of the theoretical status of the prison as a ‘total institution’ and for exploring anew the boundary that separates it (or not) from outside worlds. |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban PortugalPrisonsWomen’s prisonsPortugalMass incarcerationWar-on-drugsImprisoned familyImprisoned neighborsCarceral networksDrug marketsprisonconcentrated incarcerationdrugsfamilyneighborhoodwomen's imprisonmentScience & TechnologySocial SciencesThe notion that prisons are a ‘world apart’, with their walls severing prisoners from their external relationships, and incarceration an interruption, ‘time away’ spent in a separate social universe, has provided an adequate framework for understanding the social realities of imprisonment in the past. But it has also created an analytical dead angle that prevents us from identifying the ramifying social effects of concentrated incarceration upon both the prison and heavily penalized lower-class neighborhoods. This article addresses these effects with data from an ethnographic revisit of a major women’s prison in Portugal, where the recomposition of the inmate population that has accompanied the rapid inflation of the country’s carceral population is especially pronounced and entails the activation of wide-ranging carceralized networks bringing kinship and neighborhood into the prison as well as the prison into the domestic world. The analysis focuses on the ways whereby these constellations have transformed the experience of confinement and the texture of correctional life, calling for a reconsideration of the theoretical status of the prison as a ‘total institution’ and for exploring anew the boundary that separates it (or not) from outside worlds.Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.SAGE Publications LtdUniversidade do MinhoCunha, Manuela Ivone P. da20082008-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/5231eng"Ethnography". ISSN 1466-1381.9:3 (2008) 325-350.1466-138110.1177/1466138108094974info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:03:25Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/5231Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:53:33.685911Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da Prisons Women’s prisons Portugal Mass incarceration War-on-drugs Imprisoned family Imprisoned neighbors Carceral networks Drug markets prison concentrated incarceration drugs family neighborhood women's imprisonment Science & Technology Social Sciences |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Closed circuits : kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal |
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Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da |
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Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da |
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Universidade do Minho |
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Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da |
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Prisons Women’s prisons Portugal Mass incarceration War-on-drugs Imprisoned family Imprisoned neighbors Carceral networks Drug markets prison concentrated incarceration drugs family neighborhood women's imprisonment Science & Technology Social Sciences |
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Prisons Women’s prisons Portugal Mass incarceration War-on-drugs Imprisoned family Imprisoned neighbors Carceral networks Drug markets prison concentrated incarceration drugs family neighborhood women's imprisonment Science & Technology Social Sciences |
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The notion that prisons are a ‘world apart’, with their walls severing prisoners from their external relationships, and incarceration an interruption, ‘time away’ spent in a separate social universe, has provided an adequate framework for understanding the social realities of imprisonment in the past. But it has also created an analytical dead angle that prevents us from identifying the ramifying social effects of concentrated incarceration upon both the prison and heavily penalized lower-class neighborhoods. This article addresses these effects with data from an ethnographic revisit of a major women’s prison in Portugal, where the recomposition of the inmate population that has accompanied the rapid inflation of the country’s carceral population is especially pronounced and entails the activation of wide-ranging carceralized networks bringing kinship and neighborhood into the prison as well as the prison into the domestic world. The analysis focuses on the ways whereby these constellations have transformed the experience of confinement and the texture of correctional life, calling for a reconsideration of the theoretical status of the prison as a ‘total institution’ and for exploring anew the boundary that separates it (or not) from outside worlds. |
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