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 CellOs 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.
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Chapter 1: Dissecting the cell: Embodied and everyday spaces of incarcerationJennifer Turner and Victoria Knight Part One: The Nucleus Chapter 2: 'The solitude of the cell': Cellular confinement in the emergence of the modern prison, 1850-1930Helen Johnston Chapter 3: Prison cells as a grounded embodiment of penal ideologies: A Norwegian-American comparisonJordan M. Hyatt, Synove 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 cellIrene MartiChapter 7: Prison as palimpsest: The dialectics of the cell and everyday lifeThe ACE Steering Committee Chapter 8: Power in no-cell detention: Spatial restriction and domestication of space for foreign detainees in RomaniaBenedicte 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 spaceJennifer Turner, Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes Chapter 11: Hearing behind the door: The cell as a portal to prison lifeKate Herrity Chapter 12: Prison cell spaces, bodies and touchElisabeth Fransson and Francesca Giofre Chapter 13: PrisonCloud: The beating heart of the digital prison cellJana 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
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