The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners

<span class="abs_content">By means of case studies and historical information regarding penitentiary institutions in Spain and Latin America, the author offers an interpretative view of protest in prisons. Taking into consideration the concept of "prisonisation", this paper...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7ebed56267ab45e4886c5d64987f5f502021-11-21T15:11:39ZThe Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v9i2p666https://doaj.org/article/7ebed56267ab45e4886c5d64987f5f502016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/16321https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">By means of case studies and historical information regarding penitentiary institutions in Spain and Latin America, the author offers an interpretative view of protest in prisons. Taking into consideration the concept of "prisonisation", this paper discusses the "prisoner body" treated as a typological category. In a manner of speaking, this perspective enables the author to establish differences in the nature of the arsenal of collective actions employed by prisoners, and thus to put forward his own conceptual definition as "bioprotest". There is a subtle asymmetry in the bodily-harm aspect of prisoner protest, which needs to be examined in light of the dominant cultural frameworks. On the one hand, we have "political and ideological prisoners", whose non-violent corporal arsenal (hunger strikes, in particular) is often a sufficient to make themselves heard. On the other, we have "common prisoners", who are often unable to break free of the cultural stigma of criminality which clings to them, and therefore feel compelled to add a more sacrificial (corporal) aspect to their actions - mainly by way of self-mutilation.</span><br />Pedro Oliver OlmoCoordinamento SIBAarticlebioprotestcommon prisonershunger strikelatin americanon-cooperationpenitentiary institutionspolitical prisonersprisonisationprison protestsriotsself-mutilationspainPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 666-690 (2016)
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topic bioprotest
common prisoners
hunger strike
latin america
non-cooperation
penitentiary institutions
political prisoners
prisonisation
prison protests
riots
self-mutilation
spain
Political science (General)
JA1-92
spellingShingle bioprotest
common prisoners
hunger strike
latin america
non-cooperation
penitentiary institutions
political prisoners
prisonisation
prison protests
riots
self-mutilation
spain
Political science (General)
JA1-92
Pedro Oliver Olmo
The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners
description <span class="abs_content">By means of case studies and historical information regarding penitentiary institutions in Spain and Latin America, the author offers an interpretative view of protest in prisons. Taking into consideration the concept of "prisonisation", this paper discusses the "prisoner body" treated as a typological category. In a manner of speaking, this perspective enables the author to establish differences in the nature of the arsenal of collective actions employed by prisoners, and thus to put forward his own conceptual definition as "bioprotest". There is a subtle asymmetry in the bodily-harm aspect of prisoner protest, which needs to be examined in light of the dominant cultural frameworks. On the one hand, we have "political and ideological prisoners", whose non-violent corporal arsenal (hunger strikes, in particular) is often a sufficient to make themselves heard. On the other, we have "common prisoners", who are often unable to break free of the cultural stigma of criminality which clings to them, and therefore feel compelled to add a more sacrificial (corporal) aspect to their actions - mainly by way of self-mutilation.</span><br />
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author Pedro Oliver Olmo
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title The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners
title_short The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners
title_full The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners
title_fullStr The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners
title_full_unstemmed The Corporal Repertoire of Prison Protest in Spain and Latin America: The Political Language of Self-Mutilation by Common Prisoners
title_sort corporal repertoire of prison protest in spain and latin america: the political language of self-mutilation by common prisoners
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