1 décembre 2019
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10.4000/rccs.9770
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Julienne Weegels, « Undoing the Cemetery of the Living: Performing Change, Embodying Resistance through Prison Theater in Nicaragua », Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, ID : 10670/1.yf1aro
This paper explores the gendered and spatialized dynamics that underpin prisoners' and official discourses of change (cambio de actitud) in Nicaragua as these were manifested at two prison facilities during a lengthy period of prison theater training. Teasing out the way in which change is resisted, adapted and appropriated by prisoners as they simultaneously embody and contest state discourses of penal reeducation, I argue that while re-educational spaces present opportunities for doing freedom, temporarily relieving the tightness of prison, they are also fundamentally part of the prison's power structure and political-moral realm. Herein change is often posited as opposed to violence, yet my research points to a dialectical relationship rather than a binary opposition between the two, because within the wider co-governance system of Nicaragua's prisons, violence appears to exist in a parallel rather than past relationship to prisoners' processes of change.