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Gothic Sovereignty: Gangs and Criminal Community in a Honduran Prison
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This article is published in South Atlantic Quarterly.The article was published on 2014-06-20. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prison & Sovereignty.read more
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Latin American prisons
Sacha Darke,Maria Lúcia Karam +1 more
TL;DR: Darke et al. as discussed by the authors explored the key features of prisons and prison life in Latin America as a whole and drew particular attention to two paradigms of globalised crime control that quite clearly have particular resonance in Latin American: those of criminal justice militarisation and, quite the opposite of rehabilitation, securitisation of the prison environment.
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Making Do: The Practice of Imprisonment in Postwar Guatemala
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the spatial and social components of incarceration that create a combination of improvised disciplinary techniques, what this article calls the practice of "making do," and highlight the importance of expanding notions of detention beyond the prison proper.
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The Exceptional Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine narratives of socialization, redemption, and mundane and exceptional killing to illustrate what operates beneath the public veneer of the punishment of police in Brazil.
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Rolling the Windows Up: On (Not) Researching Violence and Strategic Distance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on their experience conducting fieldwork in some of the violent neighbourhoods of urban Honduras, using examples from ethnography conducted in and around San Pedro S.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the logic of sovereignty and the paradox of sovereignty in the form of the human sacer and the notion of potentiality and potentiality-and-law.
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The State of Exception
TL;DR: Agamben's "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception" is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context as mentioned in this paper.
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Specters of Marx : The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International
TL;DR: The Specters of Marx as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work on the question "Whither Marxism?" and it is based on Derrida's plenary address, delivered in two parts, which forms the basis of this book.