Prisons and Activism in the Pandemic: How Survivors of Incarceration Shift What Civic Participation Means
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5965/14145731033920200104Keywords:
Prison, Activism, Citizenship, Prison Newsletter, Web Series, Prison arts programmingAbstract
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, currently and formerly incarcerated people in the state of Michigan in the United States are partnering with writers and artists in the free world to make themselves more visible in this moment of crisis. This article looks at three case studies (the MYLIFEMATTERSTOO newsletter, the Living on Loss of Privileges web series, and correspondence programming at the Prison Creative Arts Project) in which people in prison and those who have been recently released are using their creativity and networks of supporters to assert their voices and rights. In doing so, they insist that they are citizens actively participating in free world communities.
Downloads
References
BATES; PATRICK; WELCH, Cozine. Entrevista realizada por Ashley Lucas. Entrevista pessoal. Digital. 18 jun. 2020. Disponível em: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEZqKs7keU>.
Felony Disenfranchisement Laws (Map). American Civil Liberties Union, Disponível em:<https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/voter-restoration/felony-disenfranchisement-laws-map>. Acesso em: 11 ago. 2020.
FERRELL, Ricardo. Email para Alexandra Friedman, Ann Arbor, Michigan, em 10 ago. 2020.
JONES, Quentin. Email para Alexandra Friedman, Ann Arbor, Michigan, em 10 ago. 2020.
PRICE, Joshua. Prison and Social Death. Critical Issues in Crime and Society. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2015, p. 115. Disponível em: <https://doi-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.36019/9780813565590>. Acesso em: 15 ago. 2020.
ROSS, Jeffrey Ian. Resisting the Carceral State: Prisoner Resistance from the Bottom Up. Social Justice, v. 36, n. 3, p. 28-45, 2009. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 17 ago. 2020.
RUUD, Marianne Teresa. “MYLIFEMATTERSTOO.” Email, 2020.
WACQUANT, Loïc. Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony. Dialectical Anthropology, v. 34, n. 4, p. 605-620, 2010. Disponível em: <http://www.jstor.org/stable/29790988>. Acesso em: 28 ago. 2020.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Urdimento - Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênicas
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright Statement
The articles published by the magazine are free to use. The copyright is all assigned to the magazine. The articles whose authors are identified represent the expression from the point of view of their authors and not the official position of the journal Urdimento. The author (s) undertakes whenever publishing material relating to the article published in Revista Urdimento mention the said publication as follows: This article was originally published by Urdimento magazine in its volume (put the volume), number (put the number) in the year of (put the year) and can be accessed at:
http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.