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Clark, Robert Lewis, Jr.

Spaces of sovereignty: Rehabilitation and empowerment in an American prison.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spaces of sovereignty: Rehabilitation and empowerment in an American prison.
Author:	Clark, Robert Lewis, Jr.
Description:	395 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Kamari Maxine Clarke.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1849.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3317081
ISBN:	9780549650270

Spaces of sovereignty: Rehabilitation and empowerment in an American prison.
Clark, Robert Lewis, Jr.

Spaces of sovereignty: Rehabilitation and empowerment in an American prison. - 395 p.

Adviser: Kamari Maxine Clarke.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

In order to remove my portrayal of Hillsford Correctional Institution from the matrix of criminological and penological discourse which precedes it, in this work I have framed prison as a space defined by marginality and characterized by translocality---of people, things, images, and power. While state institutions remain deeply connected to authoritarian fonts of discursive power/knowledge, and are inextricably conjoined with the seemingly panoptic institutional gaze, this ostensibly bounded community also attends and propagates the circulation of bodies, commodities, ideas, and practices. I have thusly chosen to frame the prison as a site of transcendence---a location where a project of rehumanization may begin. The modern prison is doubly envisioned as a site of social and legal inclusion through exclusion and as a place where future social exceptions may be simultaneously conceived, imagined, and constituted. Rehabilitation thusly becomes a vision of social redemption; a potent, collective embrasure connecting inmates both to the imagined world outside the prison and to an alternative self and future.

ISBN: 9780549650270Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Spaces of sovereignty: Rehabilitation and empowerment in an American prison.
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520 $a North American prisons are centers of state power, as well as focal points of media representation and public imagination. By temporarily suspending the constitutional rights of inmates in order to uphold the public law, they also generate spaces exempt from the law---which include prisoners through their very exclusion---making them fertile sites for profound social transformation. Despite popular scholarly portrayals positing prisoners as helpless subjects whom the state unilaterally classifies and disciplines through application of normative behavioral standards, in this dissertation I argue that prison inmates negotiate new forms of empowerment by creating communities of support through which these social transformations take place. We see that the contemporary correctional institution allows inmates spaces for both negotiation and reconfiguration of the terms of confinement, by expanding the minimums of personal agency afforded by imprisonment via these networks of empowerment. Individuals form communities of legitimization that reconfigure competing institutional paradigms of criminality and reform by defining and pursuing rehabilitation.
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