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Philippe Artières et al., « Prison et résistances politiques. », Cultures & conflits, ID : 10.4000/conflits.1503
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L'emprisonnement fonctionne selon le principe d'une soustraction physique et symbolique de l'individu du cours social ordinaire et de la visibilité publique. Mais l'enceinte carcérale n'est pas un univers immobile et froid. Elle est au contraire un espace en tension perpétuelle dans lequel se jouent de multiples manoeuvres et transactions pour maintenir un équilibre précaire entre "guerre" et "paix". Ce numéro est l'occasion de discuter la prison et d'analyser ses luttes comme une scène à part entière du politique. Imprisonment operates on the principle of the physical and symbol removal of the individual from the course of ordinary social life, and from public visibility. And what can be said about political resistance to this world of incarceration? The possibility of initiating collective movements is reduced in the extreme, and their realisation constitutes a threat to order in the prison, which should be crushed, and/or made silent. But the prison does not constitute an unmoving and cold universe. Instead, it is a space of perpetual tension in which occur multiple manoeuvres and transactions to maintain a precarious balance between “war” and “peace”. This issue of Cultures & Conflits takes the opportunity to discuss the prison in terms of its existence as an exemplary “other space” – the heterotopias of Michel Foucault – and to analyse those struggles that take place over the question of imprisonment, and to consider prisons as a possible location for politics. From a genealogical, and therefore critical, perspective, this issue proposes to examine these struggles through a series of case studies from France and elsewhere in the century that has just passed. It will not only look at these moments of resistance in themselves, but also reflect upon the various modalities of struggle which were at work, the many instruments of combat that were invented, and the actions which developed in each geographical and historical context.