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Abstract
This paper considers the intimate exchanges taking place in a space whose public/private designation is indistinct; the prison visiting room. Drawing on extensive research with serving prisoners, their visitors, and prison staff in the UK, and using as an interpretive lens recent geographical conceptualisations of comfort as affective complex, it seeks to better understand how the spaces provided for prison visitation affect the ‘doing’ of intimacy in ways that arguably detract from the potential benefits of prison visitation in supporting the wellbeing of both prisoners and visitors. The paper suggests that the bodily practices involved in achieving comfort-as-condition-of-possibility may simultaneously undermine the propensity for the resultant corporeal comfort to deliver this effect.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 179-194 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography |
Volume | 100 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 5 Jun 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 5 Jun 2018 |
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ESRC IAA 2014 - Urgency grant - Prison Visitation and Recidivism
Moran, D. (Principal Investigator)
Economic & Social Research Council
26/09/14 → 31/01/15
Project: Research Councils
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Breaking the Cycle? Prison Visitation and Recidivism in the UK.
Moran, D. (Principal Investigator) & Dixon, L. (Co-Investigator)
Economic & Social Research Council
1/11/12 → 30/09/16
Project: Research Councils