Careful control: The infrastructure of water in carceral space

Turner, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-7143-1751 and Moran, Dominique (2019) Careful control: The infrastructure of water in carceral space. AREA, 51 (2). pp. 208-215.

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Abstract

<jats:p>This paper advances carceral geographies by situating water in relation to the nexus of care and control in the carceral setting. Critical for both hygiene and health, but also requiring control and management, consideration of water offers an analytical lens to uncover everyday, intimate and embodied institutional spaces of care and control mediated by water both in its elemental form, and via water infrastructures. Drawing on extensive qualitative data generated with serving prisoners in the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">UK</jats:styled-content>, the paper considers carceral relationships with water as variously and simultaneously unruly, restrictive, health‐enabling and therapeutic.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	architecture, carceral geography, health, infrastructure, prison, water
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2018 06:57
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2023 11:02
DOI:	10.1111/area.12461
Open Access URL:	https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/1...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3019739