The emotional geography of prison life
The emotional geography of prison life
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DOI：
10.1177/1362480613497778
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发表时间：
2014-02-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Smith, Alan
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作者：
Crewe, Ben;Warr, Jason;Smith, Alan
对监狱生活的描述一致描述了一种相互不信任、恐惧、侵略和几乎没有被掩盖的暴力的文化。他们也经常解释，在男监狱里，囚犯是如何适应这种困境的，至少是通过戴上情感面具或男性虚张声势的面具来隐藏他们的脆弱，并阻止同龄人的攻击。本文并不质疑这些描述的真实性，但认为它们提供了监狱情感世界的部分描述。最重要的是，就目前的目的而言，他们没有描述监狱有一种独特的情感地理学，在这些区域中，某种情感的感受和表现或多或少是可以接受的。在这篇文章中，我们认为，这些情绪区，这不能被定性为前台或后台域，使显示更广泛的感情比其他地方的监狱。它们的存在对将监狱视为一成不变的无菌环境、一成不变的侵略性环境或情感上没有差别的环境提出了挑战。
Accounts of prison life consistently describe a culture of mutual mistrust, fear, aggression and barely submerged violence. Often too, they explain how prisoners adapt to this environmentin men's prisons, at leastby putting on emotional masks' or fronts' of masculine bravado which hide their vulnerabilities and deter the aggression of their peers. This article does not contest the truth of such descriptions, but argues that they provide a partial account of the prison's emotional world. Most importantly, for current purposes, they fail to describe the way in which prisons have a distinctive kind of emotional geography, with zones in which certain kinds of emotional feelings and displays are more or less acceptable. In this article, we argue that these emotion zones', which cannot be characterized either as frontstage' or backstage' domains, enable the display of a wider range of feelings than elsewhere in the prison. Their existence represents a challenge to depictions of prisons as environments that are unwaveringly sterile, unfailingly aggressive or emotionally undifferentiated.