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Articles | Volume 76, issue 2
Articles | Volume 76, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-289-2021
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01 Jul 2021
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“We are prisoners, not inmates”: prison letters as liminal counter-carceral spaces

Marco Nocente

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This article discusses the methodological and ethical challenges of researching prison letters through a narrative approach. After giving insight into the work of the OLGa Collective and its archive of letters, I problematise the environment of prison spaces that shape inmates' subjectivities and then develop a discussion of the narrative approach by exploring the author's role as booklet editor and researcher, spanning activism and academia and his quest of speaking for others.
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