Queering Carcerality: Exploring queer experiences of UK prisons.

研究旨在了解在英国背景下，在监狱空间中未被充分探索的酷儿经历。英国监狱通常是按照男女二元性别分类建造的，这再现了两性关系的二态性和对监狱空间的异性规范期望。在这些类别之外识别的个人面临额外的挑战，反映在拟议的监狱政策变化中（司法部，2023年）。这项研究的出现是为了认识到越来越多的人在收容所中被认为是酷儿。（Fernandes et al. 2020），再加上同性恋监禁的政治环境迅速变化（司法部，2023）。本研究将发展一种酷儿认识论的方法来研究英国的汽车空间。采用酷儿认识论将面对监狱空间中的异性化和二元性别建构，为当代的残忍概念化提供了一个新的视角。本研究将考察英国的监狱空间和系统，作为一个更大的监狱装置的一部分，考虑到酷儿的经历和体现实践，以及这些是如何在监狱空间内协商的。拟议的项目有四个目标：1。探索英国监狱空间和系统中被监禁的酷儿生活经历。2. 2 .从空间的“内部”和“外部”两方面来考察空间是如何具体化的。了解酷儿化身的实践是如何被协商和受到残忍的影响的，反之亦然。问酷儿认识论如何挑战当前对性别和性别地理学的理解。这个项目将发展一种新的方法论方法，并为酷儿、女性和女权主义地理学做出贡献。

study seeks to understand the underexplored experiences of queerness in carceral spaces, in a UK context. UK prisons are typically constructed in line with binary gender categorisations of male andfemale which reproduce dimorphic gender relations and heteronormative expectations of prison space. Individuals who identifyoutside of such categories face additional challenges, reflected within proposed changes to prison policy (Ministry of Justice, 2023). This research emerges in recognition of an increasing number of individuals identifying as queer in carceral spaces. (Fernandes et al. 2020) coupled with a rapidly changing political landscape for queer incarceration(Ministry of Justice, 2023).This study will develop a queer epistemological approach to UK carceral spaces. Adopting a queer epistemology will confront the heterosexualisation and binary gender construction within prison spaces, providing a novel perspective for conceptualising carcerality in the contemporary moment. This study will examine UK based prison spaces and systems, as a subsection of a larger carceral apparatus, considering queer experiences and embodying practices and how these are negotiated within prison spaces.The proposed project has four aims:1. To explore queer lived experiences of incarceration within UK carceral spaces and systems. 2. To examine how carcerality is embodied, both 'inside' and 'outside' of carceral spaces.3. To understand how practices of queer embodiment are negotiated and influenced by carcerality, and vice versa.4. To ask how queer epistemologies challenge currentunderstandings of carcerality and carceral geography.This project will develop a novel methodological approach and contribute to queer, carceral and feminist geographies.