Power and Resistance in Prison [electronic resource] : Doing Time, Doing Freedom /
Ugelvik, T.author.
This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Power, Resistance and Freedom in Prison; The project; Why write a book like this?; 1 Implementation; The practical stuff; My position as researcher; Research ethics; 2 The Forms of Power in Prison; Defining power and resistance; Producing security, managing risk; The subject and power; 3 Taking Liberties; Relationships and constitutive others; Transforming space; Food, resistance and masculinity; Capable bodies; Moral men; Conclusion: To Be or Not to Be a Prisoner; Transformation, adaptation, resistance; The prison's cultural position
Prison GlossaryNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.
Criminology.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Sociology.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Prison and Punishment.
Sociology, general.
Gender Studies.