Chapter 1 Prison Escapes, Everyday Life and the State: Narratives of Contiguity and Disruption

Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya

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“…I draw from these ethnographic im pulses of allowing intimate, local details to resist the metanarratives of institutional space. What emerges is the picture of the fragile, chaotic prison along with the par adoxical image of the dehumanized, yet subversive and resistant, prisoner subject (Bandyopadhyay 2010(Bandyopadhyay , 2018.…”

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“…The moment of mild chaos marked by not getting the gunti right or the moment of complete confusion marked by an attempted escape by a prisoner is the 'accident' that 'pricks' me and motivates another telling of prison practice and its constitutive role in the culture of the carceral (Bandyopadhyay 2018). Chaos during gunti acts as a punctum.…”

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Carceral Entrapments

Bandyopadhyay

2020

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

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This article focuses on three overlapping layers. First, it illustrates multiple and incoherent expressions of the prison/street nexus in India through fieldwork in prison and a para (urban neighbourhood). Second, it argues that existing categories of understanding prison/street porousness – such as a ‘deadly symbiosis’, a continuum, liminality and a carceral state – are inadequate for explaining these expressions of the prison/street nexus in India, which is framed within chaotic environments. Consequently, I argue, there is a poverty of concepts in narrating the prison/street nexus in the global south more generally, and it stems from methodological concerns. Third, the article unravels the methodological lessons from the study of imprisoned populations to examine how these may be used to narrate urban marginality. I take recourse to Lorna Rhodes’ illustration of ‘blind fields’ and ‘punctums’, to show how these may be used to disrupt conventional and hegemonic narratives of urban marginality.

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Carceral Entrapments

Bandyopadhyay

2020

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

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“…The legal violence, a core part of the military trade craft confronts, within the prison regime, the dynamic of an 'enemy' harbouring a violent hegemonic masculinity with which it is in constant struggle. Bandyopadhyay (2018) argues in his contemporary ethnographic study of escapes in India that the escapes illuminate governance, resistance and institutional boundaries. Santorso (2018) proposes escapes are psychologically significant as they offer the opportunity to boost self-belief and agency giving purpose to a prisoner's confined identity.…”

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“…Tables 1-3 illustrate the scope of the data set which includes several preserved narratives presented later in the article. Prisoner Galloway's 'voice' underscores that, even if he had avoided re-capture, he would have found himself in a more personal entrapment (Bandyopadhyay 2018). The mental health of prisoners was a concern of prison Scottish authorities and gained more recognition as the social workers and psychiatrists integrated their expertise with prison authorities (Scottish Home and Health Department 1967).…”

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The Masculine Sociology of Prison Escapes and Inmate Recapture: Exploring the Discursive Representation of Prison Escapes in Scotland c. 1941 ‐ 1978

Holligan¹

2019

J Historical Sociology

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“… 3 Bandyopadhyay’s (2018) chapter in this volume is one of only a handful of accounts opening an ethnographic window into how prisoner communities make sense of prison breaks in everyday life.…”

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Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment

Fontes

2022

Environ Plan D

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Dominant metanarratives of prison escape—as rebellion in the name of freedom and as spectacular revelation of prison organizational failure—stand in stark contrast to the experience and meaning of escape for those for whom it matters most: prisoners. For prisoners, escape does not necessarily constitute a line of flight out of the space and time of punishment. Instead, it abruptly transforms their relationship to state power and communal belonging that more often than not reifies the isolation that incarceration insists upon. Guided by a prisoner’s narrative of escape from a Guatemalan prison, evasion, exile, and re-capture, this essay brings the phenomenon of prison escape into conversation with carceral geography’s exploration of essential connections and reflections between the prison and other social, institutional and geographic spaces, highlighting how multiple actors and forces beyond the carceral state collude in fixing vulnerable bodies in place . Ultimately, the freedom that escape might promise the prisoner recedes before discourses and infrastructures of punishment and isolation built far beyond the prison, showing how incarceration and freedom cannot be defined by prison walls, nor by the law’s calculations that pretend to mete out justice in discrete units of time.

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Chapter 1 Prison Escapes, Everyday Life and the State: Narratives of Contiguity and Disruption

Cited by 8 publications

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Carceral Entrapments

Carceral Entrapments

The Masculine Sociology of Prison Escapes and Inmate Recapture: Exploring the Discursive Representation of Prison Escapes in Scotland c. 1941 ‐ 1978

Becoming fugitive: Prison breaks and the space of punishment

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