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Engendering justice: on (in)visibilities of penal design, aestheticisation of punishment, and spaces of solidarity
| Resumo: | This chapter focuses on socio-spatial alternatives to the criminal justice system; a system through which state violence is disproportionally exerted against gender-diverse individuals, the LGBTQI+ community, women, and racial and ethnic minorities. Today, the institutions of punishment are pervasive through a variety of designed apparatuses including surveillance, policing, profiling, and data extractivism. Prisons, on the other hand, as one of the keystones of this penal framework, have been systematically pushed to the outskirts and deemed ‘invisible’ in the social fabric of cities. In recent decades, the growing industry of penal design and architecture has been exalting an aestheticisation of carcerality with new glass facades in detention centres, green sustainable prisons, electronic monitoring, and separate rooms for LGBTQI+ prisoners. However, despite the discourses of rehabilitation and ‘humane’ approaches, these material and aesthetic reforms are proven to only strengthen the punitive regimes, ill treatment, and recidivism. Problematising both existing conditions and emerging reformist approaches, this chapter examines activist and community-based practices that support people of diverse genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, and classes who are ‘victims’ of the criminal justice system. These practices include not only transformative justice efforts that occupy physical spaces to deal with harm collectively but also solidarity networks that track the conditions of queer incarceration and other efforts of transforming penal design into cultural spaces and places of well-being. |
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| Autores principais: | Canli, Ece |
| Assunto: | Abolitionist design Carceral aesthetics Criminal justice system Penal architecture Queer incarceration Transformative justice Design abolicionista Estética carcerária Arquitetura penal Encarceramento queer Justiça transformativa Humanidades::Outras Humanidades Igualdade de género |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | This chapter focuses on socio-spatial alternatives to the criminal justice system; a system through which state violence is disproportionally exerted against gender-diverse individuals, the LGBTQI+ community, women, and racial and ethnic minorities. Today, the institutions of punishment are pervasive through a variety of designed apparatuses including surveillance, policing, profiling, and data extractivism. Prisons, on the other hand, as one of the keystones of this penal framework, have been systematically pushed to the outskirts and deemed ‘invisible’ in the social fabric of cities. In recent decades, the growing industry of penal design and architecture has been exalting an aestheticisation of carcerality with new glass facades in detention centres, green sustainable prisons, electronic monitoring, and separate rooms for LGBTQI+ prisoners. However, despite the discourses of rehabilitation and ‘humane’ approaches, these material and aesthetic reforms are proven to only strengthen the punitive regimes, ill treatment, and recidivism. Problematising both existing conditions and emerging reformist approaches, this chapter examines activist and community-based practices that support people of diverse genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, and classes who are ‘victims’ of the criminal justice system. These practices include not only transformative justice efforts that occupy physical spaces to deal with harm collectively but also solidarity networks that track the conditions of queer incarceration and other efforts of transforming penal design into cultural spaces and places of well-being. |
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