Women in Prison: Victims or Resisters? Representations of Agency in Women’s Prisons in Greece

Fili, Andriani

doi:10.1086/670862

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“…Although this body of literature has been developing significantly in recent years, capturing and analysing how prisoners' relatives manage relationships in the shadow of imprisonment, there is an apparent scarcity of contributions that look to the same kind of negotiations inside prison walls. Sociological accounts of prison life have been developing in the last few decades (Crewe, 2009;Cunha, 2014), addressing issues such as the reproduction of social, economic, and material inequalities among prisoners (Marchetti, 2002), the dynamics of prison suicide (Liebling, 2007), the idiosyncrasies of women' imprisonment (Carlen and Worrall, 2004;Almeda, 2005;Rowe, 2011;Fili, 2013), and the social effects of concentrated incarceration of lower-class communities in prison life (Clear, 2007;Cunha, 2008). Although some of these studies directly or indirectly address issues related to the negotiation of familial relationships during imprisonment, its contributions remain widely dispersed.…”

Section: Imprisonment and Family: (In)visibilitiesmentioning

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Prisons, Punishment, and the Family

Hutton¹

2018

Oxford Scholarship Online

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This book draws together chapters from eight countries to explore the severe effects that prison has on the families of prisoners. There are millions of people affected by the imprisonment of a family member each year and they suffer a wide range of difficulties. This has important implications for society as prisoners’ families experience social exclusion and inequality, despite being innocent citizens. This is important for how we think about the use of imprisonment in society and how it has a wide reach beyond the wall of the prison.

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Section: Imprisonment and Family: (In)visibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prisons, Punishment, and the Family

Hutton¹

2018

Oxford Scholarship Online

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“…En este sentido, enfatizo la noción de agencia en su versión interseccional usando el término de Huijg (2012) agencia interseccional para comprender que las decisiones que las protagonistas toman en esa maraña de relaciones de poder no siempre son unívocas ni predecibles y que, por tanto, no se puede homogeneizar su análisis en conceptos estancos. Fili (2013), en su análisis de la agencia de las mujeres en prisiones griegas, encuentra que las estrategias para aliviar malestares causados por la prisión se enmarcan en fórmulas de preservación de la identidad, orientadas a resistir a la esencialización de la mujer. Esto supone tomar en serio los significados en la interacción con la institución carcelaria y la dimensión dialógica que ello implica.…”

Section: Rastreando La Agencia En Prisiónunclassified

Explorando la agencia de las mujeres encarceladas a través de sus experiencias amorosas

Calvo

2017

PapRevSoc

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ResumenEl presente trabajo explora la agencia de las mujeres encarceladas a través de sus experiencias emocionales, una agencia caracterizada por la redefinición de la propia identidad y por las decisiones en la vida emocional, que resultan disruptivas de las lógicas carcelarias. La base de este análisis es la investigación cualitativa con entrevistas semiestructuradas y observación participante desarrolladas en el departamento de mujeres de la cárcel de Nanclares de Oca (Álava). El amor de pareja constituye uno de los ejes sobre los que se articula la resistencia a las consecuencias del encarcelamiento y la supervivencia emocional, también sobre los que se articulan significados de la vida en prisión y redefiniciones del yo de las protagonistas. Por un lado, la experiencia amorosa de pareja puede ser entendida como una transgresión tras los barrotes, una forma de unión e intimidad en un lugar en que prima la separación y la distancia de los seres queridos, una forma de transcender el tiempo de encierro y proyectarse hacia un futuro esperanzado, aunque solo sea de manera precaria. Por otro lado, siendo el amor en la sociedad occidental contemporánea una experiencia de validación del propio yo y de libertad individual, ofrece unas posibilidades simbólicas particulares para las mujeres encarceladas, quienes portan un fuerte estigma social y carecen de libertad. La relación amorosa de pareja se convierte así en fuente de identidad positiva, en vía de acceso a un éxito social construido en condiciones de estratificación social.

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“…Scholarly literature, the media, and the justice system often represent incarcerated women who have committed violent crimes as either pathological, with aggressive tendencies which render them inherently evil, or incapacitated victims of gender-based violence (Africa, 2010; Artz et al, 2012; Dastile, 2013; Jagmohan, 2018; Madriz, 1997). Their voices have been disqualified, minimised, muted, or deprioritised by social structures such as the media and the justice system (Barlow, 2015; Fili, 2013; Schram et al, 2004).…”

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Negotiating the Maximum-Security Offender Identity: Experiences From Incarcerated Women

Qhogwana

2019

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The representation of women classified as maximum-security offenders continues to be a challenge due to paucity of research regarding their experiences. Generally, their stories are masked under the experiences of the other categories of incarcerated women. Drawing from a larger study conducted with incarcerated women in a South African correctional centre in Johannesburg, in this article I provide a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews on the lived experiences of negotiating the maximum-security offender identity by 13 women. The results suggest that the maximum-security offender identity is associated with rejection, dehumanisation, denial of agency, restricted movement, and labelling. The article also highlights the significance of providing agency to incarcerated women in deconstructing stereotypes that represent them as angry and uneducated with no value to society. A more balanced repositioning of their stories emerges as they get an opportunity to construct their own experiences.

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Women in Prison: Victims or Resisters? Representations of Agency in Women’s Prisons in Greece

Cited by 28 publications

References 34 publications

Prisons, Punishment, and the Family

Prisons, Punishment, and the Family

Explorando la agencia de las mujeres encarceladas a través de sus experiencias amorosas

Negotiating the Maximum-Security Offender Identity: Experiences From Incarcerated Women

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