The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland
This paper argues that the burgeoning sub-discipline of carceral geography needs to pay particular attention to context when theorising carceral space, and that the specific context of Finland offers a new and valuable perspective. Much of the work within this new area of human geography originates...
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Geographical Society of Finland
2012-12-01
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| author | Dominique Moran Anssi Keinänen |
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| description | This paper argues that the burgeoning sub-discipline of carceral geography needs to pay particular attention to context when theorising carceral space, and that the specific context of Finland offers a new and valuable perspective. Much of the work within this new area of human geography originates in or pertains to the highly incarcerative, or ‘hypercarcerative’ contexts of the US, the UK and the Russian Federation, raising questions over the transferability of theorisations of the carceral to other less carcerative, or actively ‘de-carcerative’ settings. By focussing specifically on one such setting, the low imprisonment context of Finland, this paper discusses Goffman’s ‘total institution’ thesis with reference to the system of ‘furloughs’ or home visits for prisoners. In this paper we explore the extent to which this practice destabilises the inside/outside binary of the ‘total institution’, through the notion of heterotopia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9651a7c7c5cb4cdb85264de4394c2fde2022-12-21T23:15:41ZengGeographical Society of FinlandFennia: International Journal of Geography0015-00101798-56172012-12-0119026276The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in FinlandDominique MoranAnssi KeinänenThis paper argues that the burgeoning sub-discipline of carceral geography needs to pay particular attention to context when theorising carceral space, and that the specific context of Finland offers a new and valuable perspective. Much of the work within this new area of human geography originates in or pertains to the highly incarcerative, or ‘hypercarcerative’ contexts of the US, the UK and the Russian Federation, raising questions over the transferability of theorisations of the carceral to other less carcerative, or actively ‘de-carcerative’ settings. By focussing specifically on one such setting, the low imprisonment context of Finland, this paper discusses Goffman’s ‘total institution’ thesis with reference to the system of ‘furloughs’ or home visits for prisoners. In this paper we explore the extent to which this practice destabilises the inside/outside binary of the ‘total institution’, through the notion of heterotopia.http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/4895/5741Carceral geographyprisonfurlough‘total institution’Finland |
| spellingShingle | Dominique Moran Anssi Keinänen The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland Fennia: International Journal of Geography Carceral geography prison furlough ‘total institution’ Finland |
| title | The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland |
| title_full | The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland |
| title_fullStr | The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland |
| title_short | The ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of prisons: Carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in Finland |
| title_sort | inside and outside of prisons carceral geography and home visits for prisoners in finland |
| topic | Carceral geography prison furlough ‘total institution’ Finland |
| url | http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/4895/5741 |
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