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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais

versão On-line ISSN 2182-7435

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WEEGELS, Julienne. Undoing the “Cemetery of the Living”: Performing Change, Embodying Resistance through Prison Theater in Nicaragua. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2019, n.120, pp.137-160. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.9770.

This paper explores the gendered and spatialized dynamics that underpin prisoners' and official discourses of “change” (cambio de actitud) in Nicaragua as these were manifested at two prison facilities during a lengthy period of prison theater training. Teasing out the way in which “change” is resisted, adapted and appropriated by prisoners as they simultaneously embody and contest state discourses of penal reeducation, I argue that while re-educational spaces present opportunities for “doing freedom”, temporarily relieving the tightness of prison, they are also fundamentally part of the prison's power structure and political-moral realm. Herein change is often posited as opposed to violence, yet my research points to a dialectical relationship rather than a binary opposition between the two, because within the wider co-governance system of Nicaragua's prisons, violence appears to exist in a parallel rather than past relationship to prisoners' processes of change.

Palavras-chave : criminal justice; Nicaragua; penal system; prison; social reintegration; theater.

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