This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic fieldwork from Norway's largest prison, Ugelvik provides a compelling analysis of the relationship between power, practices of resistance and prisoner subjectivity.

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'Thomas Ugelvik gives us an unusually intimate portrait of the inner world of the prison and, especially, of the nuanced relations of power that shape prisoners' experience. Power and Resistance in Prison is a fine ethnography and a great addition to our understanding of how life in prison actually unfolds.' - Lorna Rhodes, University of Washington, USA

'Power and Resistance in Prison is a powerful, engaging and theoretically important book exploring in depth what happens when power and freedom meet in a culturally diverse Norwegian prison. It is challenging, honest, and replete with human stories.'

- Professor Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, UK.

'Power and Resistance in Prison marks an important potentiality for criminological scholarship to take seriously the role of spatial relationships in its research and I hope that scholars will take lead from this intervention. In summary, scholars investigating the lived experiences of prison space, those concerned with society and governance and those hoping to master the difficult art of good ethnography will all find sections particularly useful in this wide-ranging yet thorough and genuinely readable book.' - Jen Turner, British Journal of Criminology

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University of Oslo, Norway

Thomas Ugelvik

About the author

Thomas Ugelvik is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Oslo, Norway

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Power and Resistance in Prison
Book Subtitle: Doing Time, Doing Freedom
Authors: Thomas Ugelvik
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137307866
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30785-9Published: 24 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45570-6Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30786-6Published: 24 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Prison and Punishment, Sociology, general, Gender Studies

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Power, Resistance and Freedom in Prison

Implementation

The Forms of Power in Prison

Taking Liberties

Conclusion: To Be or Not to Be a Prisoner

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