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Sitting, seeing and getting lost: the sensory aesthetics of Latvia’s women’s prison

Jalili-Idrissi, Arta (2024) Sitting, seeing and getting lost: the sensory aesthetics of Latvia’s women’s prison. In: Routledge International handbook on Sensory Criminology. Routledge. (In Press)

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This chapter delves into what imprisonment feels like in the global east, with a particular focus on the first encounter with the prison as an institution of confinement. The central claim of this chapter is that by focusing on women’s sensory experience of imprisonment at the start of their sentence, a better understanding can be gathered about carceral power, which in the global east is a relational and symbolic one rather than a physical manifestation in space. The spatial and cultural ‘carceral collectivism’ facilitates an intimacy in the sensorial spectrum of surveillance that essentially provides both control and support functions.

Item Type: Book Chapter, Section or Conference Proceeding
Faculty: School of Law, Policing and Forensics > Sociology, Criminology and Terrorism
Depositing User: Arta JALILI-IDRISSI
Date Deposited: 21 May 2025 14:59
Last Modified: 21 May 2025 14:59
URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/9003

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