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What is the prison boundary? Where is it located? Which processes and performances help construct and animate it, and who takes part in them? In ‘Conceptualising ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside”, Turner details not only what is meant when we use this terminology, but where the boundary lies, who is co-constituted in its (re)production, and how it comes to be (co)constructed. This chapter appraises the wealth of multi-disciplinary literature that attends to spaces of incarceration, highlighting opportunities to further interrogate the prison boundary. Drawing on geographic interpretations of borders and boundaries, Turner identifies an opportunity to interrogate cultural manifestations of the assumed binary between inside and outside, particularly in relation to the prison as a specific space of production and consumption.
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Notes
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Peterhead prison was closed in 2014. Its replacement, HMP Grampian, was built alongside it and opened in March 2014. The house blocks are now even closer to the cliff edge.
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Geopolitics can be described as the study of the influence of such factors as economics, geography and demography on the politics of a state, and in particular its foreign policy. Biopolitics (drawing on the work of the likes of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Paolo Virno and Maurizio Lazzarato) is concerned with the influence of such practices of power on the individual and his body.
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This returns us to the larger discourse of exclusion relating to the threat of undesirables.
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In some countries prisoners are permitted to have extended visits, which may incorporate overnight stay in designated accommodation with spouses and/or children. Conjugal visits are not permitted in the UK.
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This book alludes to theoretical considerations of gender in its feminist methodological tendencies; through comments surrounding prisoner work and familial expectations—the working father, as an example—(see Chap. 5 ); and indeed through my own positionality as a tourism participant (see Chap. 4 ). These themes are necessarily present, but not predominant, in my particular considerations of the inside/outside boundary.
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Turner, J. (2016). Conceptualising ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’. In: The Prison Boundary. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53242-8_2
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