Power and Resistance in Prison: Doing Time, Doing Freedom by T. Ugelvik

By T. Ugelvik

This booklet explores how prisoners flip themselves into energetic competitors of the felony regime, and therefore reclaim their freedom and manhood. utilizing vast ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's biggest criminal, Ugelvik presents a compelling research of the connection among strength, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.

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