Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I. Emergence and evolution
1. Emergency Period Carcerality: Taking Exception to ‘the Exception’ in Prisoner Power Relations; Christopher Garces
2. The carceral reproduction of neoliberal order: Power, ideology and economy in Venezuelan prison; Andres Antillano
3. Tales from
La Catedral: the
Narco and the Reconfiguration of Prison Social Order in Colombia and Latin America; Manuel Iturralde and Libardo Ariza
4. Emergency Period Carcerality: Taking Exception to ‘the Exception’ in Prisoner Power Relations; Christopher Garces
Section II. Violence, dialogue and exchange
5. 'They can’t run the prison without us’: Violence, co-governance and public secrets in Nicaraguan prisons; Julienne Weegels
6. Co-governance of ‘Dialogue’: hegemony and governance in a Brazilian maximum-security unit; Vitor Stegemann Dieter
Section III. Alternatives between formality and informality
7. A Decolonial and Depatriarchal approach to Women’s Imprisonment: Co-governance, legal pluralism and gender at Santa Mónica prison, Perú; Lucia Bracco
8. The ‘prisoner-entrepeneur’. Responsibilization, employment and government at a distance at Punta de Rieles prison in Uruguay; Fernando Avila and Maximo Sozzo
9. Self-Governing Brazilian Prison Communities; Sacha Darke
10. Evangelical wings, inmates and governmental relations in Argentina; Lorena Navarro and Maximo Sozzo
11. Tigres, Representantes, Agentes: The Evolution of Prison Governance Arrangements in the Dominican Republic’s Prison Reform Process; Jennifer Peirce
12. Governance and and inmates in contemporary prisons in Latin America. Comparative and theoretical notes; Maximo Sozzo