Introduction: Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action
Keywords:
Human rights, incarceration, critical research, prison ethnography, critical prison studiesAbstract
This collection of essays grew out of the workshop Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati, Spain) in June 2016. The papers explore some of the challenges and possibilities of critical prison research, ranging from issues arising in university research ethics reviews to the limitations of penal reform efforts to end the practice of solitary confinement. Each essay is embedded in a different penal context: Australia, Italy, Russia, Canada, and the United States; and each contributes to broader discussions of critical prison research, utilizing new and old methods and sources, including the ‘netnography’ of prisoner websites and the archives of anti-carceral feminist campaigners. Collectively, the essays bring new insights and methods into scholarly and activist conversations aimed at understanding and responding to the harms of incarceration.
Esta colección de ensayos se originó del seminario Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: from Lived Experience to Global Action, celebrado en el Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica (Oñati, España), en junio de 2016. Los artículos analizan algunos de los desafíos y de las posibilidades de la investigación crítica penitenciaria, desde problemas relativos a la revisión ética de la investigación en universidades a las limitaciones de las reformas penales para acabar con el confinamiento aislado. Cada artículo tiene un contexto penal diferente – Australia, Italia, Rusia, Canadá y los Estados Unidos – y cada uno realiza una aportación al debate sobre la investigación crítica penitenciaria, utilizando métodos y fuentes que incluyen la netnografía de sitios web de prisioneros y los archivos de feministas anticarcelarias. Se aportan nuevos métodos y visiones a la conversación académica y activista encaminada a responder a los perjuicios del encarcelamiento.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0934
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