The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (531 pages)
- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology Series .
- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology Series .
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- General Introduction: What Ethnography Tells Us about Prisons and What Prisons Tell Us about Ethnography -- Part I: About Prison Ethnography -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Research 'Inside' Viewed from 'Outside': Reflections on Prison Ethnography -- 2 Walking amongst the Graves of the Living: Reflections about Doing Prison Research from an Abolitionist Perspective -- 3 Prisons Research beyond the Conventional: Dialogue, 'Creating Miracles' and Staying Sane in a Maximum-Security Prison -- 4 'Get In, Get Out, Go Back?': Transitioning from Prison Ethnography to Prison Policy Research in Russia -- 5 Ethnography of Writings in Prison: Professional Power Struggles Surrounding a Digital Notebook in a Prison for Minors -- 6 Closeness, Distance and Honesty in Prison Ethnography -- 7 Going in Green: Reflections on the Challenges of 'Getting In, Getting On, and Getting Out' for Doctoral Prisons Researchers -- Part II: Through Prison Ethnography -- Introduction to Part II -- 8 Performing Ethnography: Infiltrating Prison Spaces -- 9 The Perfume of Sweat: Prison Research through Deleuzian Lenses -- 10 Ethnography: Exploring Methodological Nuances in Feminist Research with Men Incarcerated for Sexual Offences -- 11 Writing Bad: Prison Ethnography and the Problem of 'Tone' -- 12 Prison Ethnography at the Threshold of Race, Reflexivity and Difference -- 13 Finding Secrets and Secret Findings: Confronting the Limits of the Ethnographer's Gaze -- 14 Ethnographic Imagination in the Field of the Prison -- Part III: Of Prison Ethnography -- Introduction to Part III -- 15 Insider Ethnography or the Tale of the Prison Governor's New Clothes -- 16 Changing Hats: Transiting between Practitioner and Researcher Roles. 17 'To Thine Own Self Be True': Having Faith in the Prison Researcher -- 18 Situating the Self in Prison Research: Power, Identity and Epistemology -- 19 Re-entry to Prison: Transition from HMP Researcher to 'Independent' Researcher -- 20 The Ethnographic Practitioner -- Part IV: For Prison Ethnography -- Introduction to Part IV -- 21 Global Prison Ethnography -- 22 Accessing and Witnessing Prison Practice in Uganda -- 23 Deviation and Limitations of (Prison) Ethnography: Postscript to Fieldwork in an Indian Prison -- 24 Unique Position: Dual Identities as Prison Researcher and Ex-prisoner -- 25 Mixing Detention Cultures: The Belgian-Dutch Case -- Index.
This handbook presents a rich collection of chapters that focus on the method and experience of in-depth, ethnographic research in prisons. It provides an authoritative and diverse array of international perspectives that collectively demonstrate the social and political dimensions of the use and experience of imprisonment worldwide.