‘Prison officer pains’: How and why coloniality shapes the job of a prison officer in Guyana today
Dylan Kerrigan,
Tammy Ayres,
Kellie Moss
Abstract:In this exploratory article, we look at the understudied area of prison officer's lives in the Global South and the pains of their jobs. We provide a novel and decolonial perspective on these phenomena by documenting and discussing first‐hand prison officer accounts and first‐person observations of the different dimensions of their experiences of work and home today. We understand how they see and understand their jobs, including what the pains of imprisonment for officers in Guyana look and feel like from the… Show more
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