Carceral communities in Latin America : troubling prison worlds in the 21st century / edited by Sacha Darke, Chris Garces, Luis Duno-Gottberg, Andres Antillano.
Ethnographic Reflexivity and Ethics of Community in the New Mass Carceral Zone -- When to Punish Is Not to Discipline -- Self-Governing Prison Communities -- The Extrajudicial Punishment of Rapists Imprisoned in Brazil -- Two Regimes of Confinement in Tension: Partial Prison Reform in the Dominican Republic -- Fire Next Time: Gangs, Prison, and the Apocalyptic Image in Honduras -- Carceral Coloniality in Venezuela: Theorizing Beyond the Latin American Penal State -- The Mata Escura Penal Compound: An Analysis of the Prison-Neighbourhood Nexus in Northeast Brazil -- The Community of Believers: Law, Rituals and Magic in a Self-Governed Bolivian Prison -- Carceral Alliance: Vernacular Professionalization and Containment in Puerto Rican Drug Rehabilitation -- The Futility and Necessity of Human Rights in an Era of Carceral Hyperinflation -- Competition and Collusion Among Criminal Justice and Non-State Actors in Brazil's Prison System -- The Ghost of the Massacre Still Tells His Tale. Death and Social Order in Colombian Prisons -- Beyond the Cemetery of the Living: An Exploration of Disposal and the Politics of Visibility in the Nicaraguan Prison System -- Spiritual Life and the Rationalization of Violence: The State Within the State and Evangelical Order in a Venezuelan Prison -- Carceral Order, Mediation, and Representation: Fiction and Ethnography in a Venezuelan Prison -- Facing the First Command of Capital (PCC): Regarding Ethnography of Brazil's 'Biggest Prison Gang' -- Conclusion to Carceral Communities: Struggle and Carnival in Latin America's Carceral Worlds.
Summary:
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. Sacha Darke is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Westminster, UK, Visiting Lecturer in Law at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Affiliate of Kings Brazil Institute, Kings College London, UK. Chris Garces is Research Professor of Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and Visiting Lecturer in Law at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador. Luis Duno-Gottberg is Professor at Rice University, USA. He specializes in Caribbean culture, with emphasis on race and ethnicity, politics, violence, and visual culture. Andres Antillano is Professor in Criminology at Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuala.
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