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Power and Resistance in Prison

Doing Time, Doing Freedom

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Ugelvik

    1. University of Oslo, Norway

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Power, Resistance and Freedom in Prison

    • Thomas Ugelvik
    Pages 1-17

  3. Implementation

    • Thomas Ugelvik
    Pages 18-38

  4. The Forms of Power in Prison

    • Thomas Ugelvik
    Pages 39-73

  5. Taking Liberties

    • Thomas Ugelvik
    Pages 74-235

  6. Conclusion: To Be or Not to Be a Prisoner

    • Thomas Ugelvik
    Pages 236-249

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 250-277
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About this book

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.

Reviews

'Thomas Ugelvik gives us an unusually intimate portrait of the inner world of the prison and, especially, of the nuanced relations of power that shape prisoners' experience. Power and Resistance in Prison is a fine ethnography and a great addition to our understanding of how life in prison actually unfolds.' - Lorna Rhodes, University of Washington, USA

'Power and Resistance in Prison is a powerful, engaging and theoretically important book exploring in depth what happens when power and freedom meet in a culturally diverse Norwegian prison. It is challenging, honest, and replete with human stories.'

- Professor Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, UK.

'Power and Resistance in Prison marks an important potentiality for criminological scholarship to take seriously the role of spatial relationships in its research and I hope that scholars will take lead from this intervention. In summary, scholars investigating the lived experiences of prison space, those concerned with society and governance and those hoping to master the difficult art of good ethnography will all find sections particularly useful in this wide-ranging yet thorough and genuinely readable book.' - Jen Turner, British Journal of Criminology

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oslo, Norway

    Thomas Ugelvik

About the author

Thomas Ugelvik is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Oslo, Norway



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