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Narratives on Prison Governmentality: No Longer the Prison of the Past
Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies represents the opportunities and difficulties of resisting in a place of power, which, in recent years, has become more sophisticated and effective.
| Author(s) | By Marco Nocente (The University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 184 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 1 Sept 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies represents the opportunities and difficulties of resisting in a place of power, which, in recent years, has become more sophisticated and effective.
01. Introduction 1. The research and the researcher: prison letters, method, and positionality 2. Prison governmentality, dialogue between carceral geography and critical criminology 3. Carceral governmentality: spatial and discursive practises
Marco Nocente is a postdoctoral fellow in carceral geography at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His works explore Italian prison landscapes from an abolitionist perspective. The main topic of his doctoral research, from which this book was born, is pris
