Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons (eBook)

Diets of Disrepute

Salvador Jimenez Murguia (Autor)

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2018
138 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7309-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the topic of food and foodways within American jails and prisons. It focuses on food as a political item in the service of control when executed by jail and prison personnel, as well as a mechanism of resistance on the part of the prisoners themselves.

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Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and prison settings, food becomes both a mechanism of control and resistance. In the former, the type of food, its quality, its quantity, and the symbolic significance of its presence or absence all contribute to the socio-political experience of the incarceratedperhaps even adding an extra form of punishment to one's sentence not measured in time, but rather in terms of cruelty. In the latter, the incarcerated may view the preparation of food, the innovation it may undergo, its consumption, or even the refusal of its consumption along these same socio-political lines. Thus viewing food within jail and prison as social facts that engender real consequences reveals a virtually uncharted area of research for understanding the intersection between food and life within the confines of incarceration.Of this line of inquiry, Murguia asks how food is employed as a means to control prisoners and, conversely, how do prisoners employ food in the service of resistance. As his analysis suggests, this text emphasizes a need to advance a broader discussion about the diets of prisoners.

Autor

Salvador Jimenez Murguía is professor of sociology at Akita International University.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Food as a Mechanism of Control2. Quality Control 3. Quantity Control4. Food as a Mechanism of Resistance5. Bricolage6. Survival7. PleasureConclusionBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2018
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Bricolage • correctional facility policy • Corrections • criminal justice system • Criminology • Eighth Amendment • Food • Food control • food in jail • food in prison • Foodways • jail food • Joe Apaio • nutraloaf • Penology • politics of incarceration • prison food • prison industrial complex • quality control • Quantity Control
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7309-6 / 1498573096
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7309-2 / 9781498573092