'It's a horrible, horrible feeling': ghosting and the layered geographies of absent-presence in the prison visiting room
'It's a horrible, horrible feeling': ghosting and the layered geographies of absent-presence in the prison visiting room
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“这是一种可怕、可怕的感觉”:监狱探视室中的鬼影和缺席的分层地理
DOI:
10.1080/14649365.2017.1373303
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发表时间:
2017
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2.5
通讯作者:
Moran D
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Moran D
This paper advances geographies of absence by considering the multiscalar, overlapping, ambiguous and reciprocal absences inherent in incarceration, and the compound nature of the experiential and embodied absences characteristic of prison visiting. It progresses extant literatures by considering as absent a group which differs from those previously thus conceptualised, and by postulating absence even when whereabouts are known and co-presence is possible. Drawing on a major RCUK-funded study of the socio-spatial context of prison visitation in the U.K., it brings carceral geographies and geographies of absence into productive dialogue, demonstrating that attention to the felt presence of absence in the context of prison visiting is highly revealing of the poignant and bittersweet nature of family contact during incarceration.