101028 cosmobilities-prison & mobility

Mobilitarian ideology in discourses on imprisonment Mobility behind the walls?

Mobilitarian ideology? • This is a teaser, do come tomorrow • A new representation of time & spaceS • Decompartmentalization • Continuum and inhomogeneity • Mobility as a value & mobilitarian ideology • Activity (do it), activation (do it by yourself), participation (be part of it), adaptation (be ﬂexible) Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Prison? • Looking for mobility where it couldn’t be • Penitentiary law (nature of the punishment, aims, internal regulation of jails, rights and procedures, communication with the outside, etc.) • Rich parliamentry documents («commission Dupont» & debates) • Work in progress Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Prison and immobility • Liberty deprivation at the heart of the modern penal system • Prison as incapacitation • Prison as walls • Inmates categorization • Prison time : repetition and immobility • Imprisonment as a slack period Prison as a punitive immobility Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Mobility tests • Hypothesis of a shift: from painful immobility to mobility tests • immobility  mobility • punishement  test • Looking for: • Calls to activity, activation, participation & adaptation • Evolution of the spatial perception of prison • Mobility tests Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Management of the Self imperatives Context: reframing the prison projects & the diﬃculties it induces (dependency) • Activity: inmates & workers as actors of prison • Activation • Oﬀers of opportunities in prison • Detention plan Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Management of social relation imperatives • Participation • Social relations with the outside (victims & reparation, assistance structures, family) • Social relations inside the prison (community regime) • Adaptation • Reinsertion as a readaptation & help as autonomy- friendly • Flexible application of norms Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Prison as physical space • If you want social space to be open... • ... physical space has to be opened • Imprisonment limited to physical immobility • Prison loses its exclusivity & integrates a prison continuum Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Towards mobility tests • Prison as an open and transitory space • Rejection of retribution and rehabilitation • A prison without speciﬁcal aims • Reduction of detrimental eﬀects and the end of prison • Management of prison trajectories on the basis of mobility tests • Management of rights in the framework of mobility tests Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

A powerful ideology • Strangeness of mobility in prison • Impossibility of prison legitimation • ... development of an eﬃcient mobilitarian discourse Prison & mobilities - www.mincke.be

Christophe Mincke FUSL-CES mincke@fusl.ac.be +32(0)473/210.265 Online at www.mincke.be

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