scholarly journals Toward a Decarceral Sexual Autonomy: Biopolitics and the Compounds of Projected Deviance in Carceral Space

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raechel Tiffe
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Transformative Justice ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Prison Abolition

 Abstract This essay examines the rhetorical and structural divides between the “inside” and “outside” carceral world as they exist within the intersections of racialized state violence and biopolitics. It is also a reflection on my embodied experience, as a volunteer and activist, inside penal and correctional facilities, not in an attempt to center my “freeworld” body as more important than the embodied experiences of incarcerated people, but rather to trouble that binary altogether and to use my experience as a perceived outsider to illuminate what I call the compounds of projected deviance.  I will use my experiences working in jails as well as my experiences teaching yoga in an addiction correctional facility to argue for prison abolition and transformative justice, particularly in relation to resettlement. Drawing on the work of prison and queer studies, I argue that space, race, and sexuality interlock in significant ways in historical and contemporary prisons and jails. I will also use my reflections to argue that the feminist project of sexual liberation and autonomy must start with a rejection of sexual Othering for the most marginalized members of society: incarcerated people. 

scholarly journals An embodied approach to consumer experiences: the Hollister brandscape

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 806-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Stevens ◽  
Pauline Maclaran ◽  
Stephen Brown
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Consumer Experience ◽  
Sensory Marketing ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Consumer Experiences ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
On Line ◽  
Sensory Activation

Purpose This paper aims to use embodied theory to analyze consumer experience in a retail brandscape, Hollister Co. By taking a holistic, embodied approach, this study reveals how individual consumers interact with such retail environments in corporeal, instinctive and sensual ways. Design/methodology/approach The primary source of data was 97 subjective personal introspective accounts undertaken with the target age group for the store. These were supplemented with in-depth interviews with consumers, managers and employees of Hollister. Findings The authors offer a conceptualization of consumers’ embodied experience, which they term The Immersive Somascape Experience. This identifies four key touch points that evoke the Hollister store experience – each of which reveals how the body is affected by particular relational and material specificities. These are sensory activation, brand materialities, corporeal relationality and (dis)orientation. These may lead to consumer emplacement. Research limitations/implications The authors propose that taking an “intelligible embodiment” approach to consumer experiences in retail contexts provides a deeper, more holistic understanding of the embodied processes involved. They also suggest that more anthropological, body-grounded studies are needed for the unique insights they provide. Finally, they note that there is growing consumer demand for experiences, which, they argue, points to the need for more research from an embodied experience perspective in our field. Practical implications The study reveals the perils and pitfalls of adopting a sensory marketing perspective. It also offers insights into how the body leads in retail brandscapes, addressing a lack in such approaches in the current retailing literature and suggesting that embodied, experiential aspects of branding are increasingly pertinent in retailing in light of the continued growth of on-line shopping. Originality/value Overall, the study shows how an embodied approach challenges the dominance of mind and representation over body and materiality, suggesting an “intelligible embodiment” lens offers unique insights into consumers’ embodied experiences in retail environments.

Professional Burnout Syndrome Among Correctional Facility Officers

Folia Medica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislava N. Harizanova ◽  
Tanya H. Tarnovska
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Professional Burnout ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Three Phases

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Correctional facilities present unique work places - the employees there work in tough, demanding and hazardous working conditions, in real life-threatening environment, subjected to physical and mental fatigue, risk of infectious diseases, work in shifts, with inadequate pay, etc. The aim of this study was to find the prevalence and level of burnout syndrome among employees working in the District Prison of the town of Plovdiv. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study included all employees that had direct contact with the inmates in the prison. We recruited 106 employees that participated in the study anonymously and voluntarily. The main instrument we used was the questionnaire designed according to the methods developed by V. Boiko, which allows identification of professional burnout syndrome in its three phases with four symptoms in each of the phases. RESULTS: We found a high prevalence of burnout syndrome among the staff in the District Prison in Plovdiv (74.53%). All three phases of burnout were found to have a high prevalence rate - the stress phase: 48.11%, the resistance phase: 66.98%, the exhaustion phase: 41.51%. The rank in the service hierarchy was found to be a predictor in the stress phase, B = 0.701, p = 0.048, Exp(B) = 2.106, 95%CI [1.00; 4.04]. The single officers (83.33% of the divorced and 55.56% of the single employees) and those of the staff that were more highly educated (78.72%) had elevated levels of burnout syndrome, and these manifested during the first 5 years of their service in the prison (77.78%). CONCLUSION: In Bulgaria at present the burnout syndrome has not been studied among employees working in correctional facilities. We found a high prevalence of the syndrome among the employees of the District Prison - Plovdiv. The younger, the single and the more educated employees had greater levels of burnout syndrome, which manifest during the first 5 years of their service. The results suggest that there is a need to develop and implement effective strategies to reduce and prevent development of burnout syndrome.

Repairing Police Action after the Korean War in Toni Morrison’s Home

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (137) ◽  
pp. 119-140
Author(s):  
A. J. Yumi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Community Care ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Transformative Justice ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Police Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prison Abolition ◽  
Fictional Story

Abstract Narrating the fictional story of an African American veteran of the desegregated Korean War, Toni Morrison’s 2012 novel Home links the violence of US military “police action” in Korea to the long history of police violence at home. This article argues that Home’s critical portrayal of the Korean War punctures two enduring 1950s myths: the myth of a peaceful domestic “color-blind” society and the myth of heroic US military intervention abroad. The article reads Home as an allegory that invites readers to imagine forms of justice outside of a policing framework, both globally and domestically, through its narrative of repairing trauma and harm through community care rather than punishment or retribution. This reading shows that Morrison’s rewriting of the 1950s in Home places the contemporary idioms of police and prison abolition and transformative justice in a broader historical and global imaginative frame.

scholarly journals To the question of the concept of “operational situation” (on the example of the penal system facilities)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Grigorii Aleksandrovich Maistrenko
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Penal System ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Valid Information

This article is dedicated to the questions of coordination of the activity of operational units aimed at prevention of complications of operational situation in correctional facilities. The author describes the operational situation in correctional facilities as the combination of interconnected objective factors (conditions) of the functional environment of correctional facilities, which are considered during planning, organization and implementation of crime prevention measures. In the context of ensuring security in the correctional facilities, the author characterizes the concept of “operational situation”, leaning on opinions of researchers on this subject to give a fuller definition to this concept. The article employs works of the Russian legal experts. Normative legal framework that regulates the indicated sphere is provided. The author underlines the need for further improvement of informational and analytical activity on the evaluation of operational situation in penitentiaries; determines the factors that negatively affect the operational situation in penitentiaries. Analysis is conducted on the data received from sociological survey of the correctional officers. It is stated that the presence of valid information that would characterize the state of operational situation in a correctional facility aids in achieving the goals of the penal process.

scholarly journals EDUCATORS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS IN JUVENILE CORRECTION SETTINGS AS “SIGNIFICANT OTHERS” IN THE PROCESS OF REHABILITATION AND RE-SOCIALIZATION OF CONVICTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-119
Author(s):  
Fedor I. Ushkov ◽  
Lilia A. Shaigerova ◽  
Aleksandra G. Dolgikh ◽  
Olga V. Almazova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Seeking Help

Relevance. In the correctional facilities the staff plays a special role in the life of juvenile offenders serving sentences and isolated from the society. It is not only the rehabilitation process in the juvenile correctional facility but also the success of resocialization after serving the sentence that is determined by their actions and the attitude towards the juvenile convicts. Objective. The aim of the study was to study exactly which indicators of mental health and emotional state of juvenile convicts are associated with perceived and received socio-psychological support from psychologists and caregivers of the juvenile correctional facility in comparison with support from other sources. Methods and participants. The study involved 657 adolescents serving sentences in nine juvenile correctional facilities, aged 14 to 19 years (564 boys and 93 girls).The study used the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), an item specifically developed for identifying the frequency of seeking help from various categories of people present in respondents’ lives; the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales - DASS-21); the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS); and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE). Results. Differences were identified in the relationship between perceived social support from different sources and the frequency of seeking help for different categories with indicators of mental health and emotional state of young convicts. The study also identified the impact of different support sources on anxiety, stress, and the strength of positive and negative emotions. The study emphasizes the special role of caregivers and psychologists compared to other categories of stuff in predicting the levels of depression. Conclusions. The perceived social support from the staff and the frequency of juvenile convicts asking psychologists and caregivers for help have a significant impact on mental health indicators and the emotional state of juvenile offenders. Peers and friends have the least impact on the mental health and emotional state of incarcerated youth, as opposed to free adolescents. On the contrary, “significant adults” represented by staff of correctional camps (educators and psychologists) make a significant contribution to reducing mental health disorders and improving the emotional state of offenders. Perceived social support from “significant others” helps reduce stress. Asking educators for help can be considered a predictor of lower levels of depression, anxiety, and stress in juvenile convicts. In turn, the level of positive emotions is mostly determined by seeking help from a psychologist.

scholarly journals Disrupting Lunar Cycles: Selling Seasonal Menses

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Dol
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Cultural Control ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Lunar Cycles ◽  
Biomedical Discourse ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
American Society

Women's embodied experience of menarche, menses, and menopause can reveal underlying misogynist biosocial assumptions embedded within medical and political policies and practices designed specifically for women based solely on our uniquely physiological embodied experiences. A new menstrual suppressing drug - Seasonale is the latest pharmaceutical insult/assault against women by the pharmaceutical industry capitalizing on the traditional Victorian misconceptions regarding the female body as being the diseased body in need of cultural control. This essay takes up Arthur Kleinman 's concept of 'explanatory models' to analyze the hidden issue of the gendered nature of biomedical discourse and the issue of medical knowledge production. The focus of this paper is on how biomedical discourses in the form of 'scientific' pharmaceutical rhetoric is actually constructing 'explanatory models' for women to practice and conform to a specific notion of the ideological woman in American society - the seasonal bleeder. I argue that well into the 21st century, the female body embodied in natural reproductive functions is produced discursively as an idiom of pathology ill the 'explanatory models' produced by Western biomedical discourse.

scholarly journals Chewing Demosthenes’ Pebbles: Embodied Experience Making the Scientist’s Persona, ca.1830-1910

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Josephine Hoegaerts
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Visual Observation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
The Voice

This paper argues for an embodied approach to the scientist’s persona, using ‘experience’ as its focal point. Rather than noting that embodied experiences influenced scientists’ practices and identities amidst (or despite) ideals of objectivity, I want to draw attention to the ways in which personal, embodied experiences were celebrated in nineteenth century science, and presented as primordial for the practice of competent research.I am focusing on those scientists involved in the study of the voice in order to do so. Because the physical workings of the voice are largely hidden inside the body, fields such as laryngology and phoniatry developed a number of touch-based, experiential scientific practices before and alongside tools of visual observation. These non-visual practices were very closely connected to researchers’ sensations of their own bodies, and connected to their identity (as a middle-class amateur singer, a hoarse professor, a stammerer, etc.). As scientific disciplines studying the voice developed over the century, personal ‘experience’ (understood both as particular practices and notions of personal background and identity) was increasingly brought forward as a unique source of understanding and expertise. This resulted in a highly diverse field of experts on the voice, in which otherwise non-elite researchers could participate and even rise to fame. They did so because, and not despite, their physical and social impediments. Studying the experiential practices and memories brought forward by this network of experts allows me to look at the construction of their scientific personae from an intersectional perspective. A focus on the nineteenth century notion of ‘experience’ and its inclusion in scientific discourse allows us an insight into the various constituent elements of a ‘persona’ built within the context of a particular field, and drawing liberally on aspects of identification that do not always fit the classic categories of gender, class, age, health, etc.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN PEMENUHAN HAK NARAPIDANA ANAK DI LEMBAGA PEMBINAAN KHUSUS ANAK KELAS IA TANGERANG

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Nugroho Adipradana ◽  
Erwin Adipradipto ◽  
Tisa Windayani
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Education Access ◽  
Access To Health

Abstract In criminal justice system, it is important to make sure that the rights of the inmates are both protected and properly fulfilled. This is even more essential in the case of inmate children, bearing in mind all the aspects attached on them. The rights are regulated in the Art.4 of Law No. 11/2012 on Criminal Justice System for Children’s Court and and also Art 22 Law No 12/1995 on Correctional Institution. This research observes and analyzes how is the implementation of those rights in Special Correctional Facilities for Children Class 1A Tangerang. The method used is yuridis-empiris which dominated by observation and interviews. The result of the study is that the Special Correctional Facility observed has carried out the rights for inmate children in a suffice manner which comprises right for education, access to health, legal aid, access to information and others.

scholarly journals Environing as Embodied Experience—A Study of Outdoor Education as Part of Physical Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Lundvall ◽  
Ninitha Maivorsdotter
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
School Year ◽  
Sport Pedagogy ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Practical Epistemology ◽  
Favorite Place

The development of a re-understanding or re-investigation of body pedagogy is currently prominent in the field of physical education (PE) and sport pedagogy. This goes for the learning of movement capability and health but also in relation to outdoor education (OE). The latter a criticized area for having a one-size-fits-all approach to curriculum, with less attention to what to learn in OE, including aspects of everyday practices of being outdoors. The aim of this study was to explore students aged 15 years, and their meaning making of being outdoors expressed in written stories about a favorite place. Two school year eight classes in a Swedish compulsory school situated in an area with high diversity participated. Through this theory-generated empirical study, written stories were explored as one way of evaluating students' meaning making of outdoor places. By using practical epistemology analysis (PEA) to examine experience operationalized through aesthetic judgements attention is paid to the relation between the student and the situation (their favorite place). The analysis make it possible to discern a sense and meaning making of “being” outdoors as an embodied experience, as a relational whole of the self, others and the environment. Descriptions of aesthetic experiences were analyzed leading to dimensions of environing described as “calm and privacy,” “community and togetherness” and “feelings and senses.” A favorite place was by all students described as a very local and nearby place accessible in everyday life. The analysis generated understandings of feelings of “fulfillment” and different embodied experiences of what an encounter with an outdoor place or being outdoors could mean. Furthermore, how personal and diverse the meaning making place tends to be and how experience and habits contribute to the students' creation of microenvironments. Dimensions of environing become part of an embodied process. The analysis of the written stories calls for an alternative understanding of what OE can or should consist of. The findings encourage teachers and researchers to consider alternative understandings and practices of OE that highlight and educate students' overall embodied (individual) experiences and learning in OE and PE.

scholarly journals Researching embodied relationships with place: rehabilitating the sit-down interview

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa May ◽  
Camilla Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Matching Method ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Critical Intervention

This article explores the utility of sit-down interviews in researching people’s embodied relationships with place. We offer a critical intervention in the ongoing debates concerning methodological ‘innovation’ by exploring under which circumstances sit-down interviews can produce dynamic and embodied knowledge. We propose that when conducted in situ in an environment well known by both research participants and researchers, and when focused on inherently sensory topics, sit-down interviews can provide rich insights into embodied experiences of place. In addition, we contribute to the literature that compares sit-down interviews and walk-alongs by exploring the aspects of embodied experience that sit-down interviews might be more adept at capturing. Since there is considerable overlap in the kinds of knowledge that different interview methods can produce, we argue that it is impossible to divide social reality into distinct domains of experience, each with its own matching method of enquiry.

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