Punishment and Subject Formation
Punishment and Subject Formation
Since Michel Foucault, it has been accepted that modern penal institutions achieve their disciplinary goals, in part, by constructing subjects and subjectivity. The chapter challenges this notion by looking at the daily life in the penal colony, and specifically, at the range of actions that staff and inmates take outside or against the institution’s demands. A theoretical framework is developed building on the work of Erving Goffman and Pierre Bourdieu, which sees historical subjects as incoherent, fragmented, and often contradictory, affected by social and cultural institutions that make conflicting demands on them.
Keywords: Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu, self, persona, field, subfield, total institutions
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