The state responded brutally to lockdown protests in Italian prisons soon after Italy announced its first national Covid-19 lockdown. This article affirms the need for prison ethnographies, exploring ethical and methodological directions to research what is potentially a violent environment. However, within a prison context devoted to secrecy and suspicion, this research focuses on mundane fieldwork topics ‘other than violence’; namely, everyday life in prison (such as food, health and spirituality). Such a focus allows us to develop cultural intimacy in formal institutions while preserving political engagement
Cerbini, Francesca (2022). On the possibility of an engaged ethnography in prison. ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, 38(6), 15-18 [10.1111/1467-8322.12770].
On the possibility of an engaged ethnography in prison
Cerbini Francesca
2022-01-01
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The state responded brutally to lockdown protests in Italian prisons soon after Italy announced its first national Covid-19 lockdown. This article affirms the need for prison ethnographies, exploring ethical and methodological directions to research what is potentially a violent environment. However, within a prison context devoted to secrecy and suspicion, this research focuses on mundane fieldwork topics ‘other than violence’; namely, everyday life in prison (such as food, health and spirituality). Such a focus allows us to develop cultural intimacy in formal institutions while preserving political engagement
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