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Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons - Diets of Disrepute (Hardcover)
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Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons - Diets of Disrepute (Hardcover)
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Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of
incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions,
is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and prison
settings, food becomes both a mechanism of control and resistance.
In the former, the type of food, its quality, its quantity, and the
symbolic significance of its presence or absence all contribute to
the socio-political experience of the incarcerated-perhaps even
adding an extra form of punishment to one's sentence not measured
in time, but rather in terms of cruelty. In the latter, the
incarcerated may view the preparation of food, the innovation it
may undergo, its consumption, or even the refusal of its
consumption along these same socio-political lines. Thus viewing
food within jail and prison as social facts that engender real
consequences reveals a virtually uncharted area of research for
understanding the intersection between food and life within the
confines of incarceration. Of this line of inquiry, Murguia asks
how food is employed as a means to control prisoners and,
conversely, how do prisoners employ food in the service of
resistance. As his analysis suggests, this text emphasizes a need
to advance a broader discussion about the diets of prisoners.
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