C Frois
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 15652 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C Frois |
| NOMBRES | C |
| APELLIDO | Frois |
| FIRMA | FROIS C |
| AFILIACIONES | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7702-8456 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mujeres, Crimen, Castigo. Contribuciones al estudio de la seguridad femenina
En este artículo propongo pensar el nexo crimen-seguridad recurriendo al paradigma de la seguridad humana, abarcando "la seguridad física (seguridad contra la violencia y el crimen) y la seguridad material (seguridad contra la pobreza y las privaciones)" (Kaldor, 2020:1). Al estudiar la (in)seguridad de género desde la perspectiva de mujeres infractoras, cuestiono las relaciones entre los motivos que movilizan la práctica del crimen y las experie…
Marginality, security, surveillance, crime, imprisonment
This article engages with contemporary anthropological and ethnographic methodological debates by reflecting on the challenges of conducting research in contexts related with marginality, deviance, surveillance, and imprisonment. It examines the tensions surrounding access, researcher subjectivity, and the positionalities negotiated in the field, emphasizing the epistemological relevance of long-term ethnographic engagement. Rather than treating …
Introduction
In the global political landscape, as far-right parties gain prominence, populist rhetoric advocating for harsher justice and security policies is becoming increasingly prevalent. Proponents of this rhetoric base their discourse on 'alarming' violence and crime rates and discredit more liberal approaches, as well as research that deconstruct those Manichean visions. In this introduction, we ask what tangible contributions qualitative and ethnogra…
The Adultery of a Woman Is a Very Serious Attack on the Honor and Dignity of a Man.” Perceptions about Gender Violence of Judges and Inmates
Crossing the analysis of court rulings on domestic violence produced in Portuguese courts and semi-structured interviews of men convicted of this same crime, this article emphasizes the transversality of gender categories as social markers in the different dimensions of Portugal’s social and institutional life, as well as the processes through which an inseparability between gender and state is built. From the comparative analysis of our research…
From the Margins
How does our understanding of security change when we reflect on it from the perspective of crime offender, and within the space where the security apparatus assumes a vital importance-the prison? Based on ethnographic data from 12 prison facilities in Portugal, in this article I discuss vernacular notions of security from the perspective of male and female inmates. My aim is to bring to the forefront of the Anthropology of Security research the …
Incarceration as Violence
This article sets the groundwork for understanding prison violence as a broad and interrelated phenomenon which is bound by shifting notions of legitimacy. We argue that the concept of violence can help understand how the “pains of imprisonment” are inflicted and punishment is produced in different prison settings. Drawing upon fieldwork carried out in several Portuguese prisons, we describe how unequal sets of circumstances are imposed on groups…
Etnografia em contexto carcerário
Este artigo compara duas pesquisas etnográficas em contexto penitenciário - uma prisão masculina em Portugal e uma prisão feminina em Espanha - a partir de duas perspectivas: 1) uma dimensão metodológica: ser uma antropóloga mulher tem influência no desenrolar da investigação empírica em prisões femininas e em prisões masculinas, condiciona o acesso ao terreno, observação do quotidiano prisional e as relações que se constroem com os interlocutore…
Female Imprisonment
Close insecurity
The study of security within a prison environment implies the observation of a complex phenomenon: on the one hand, inmates are defined as agents of insecurity, insofar as they are the authors of criminal acts, which to the outside world represent everything that is perceived as a threat - in terms of the law, order and general well-being. On the other hand, the prison is often characterised as a space riddled with fear, uncertainty and insecurit…
Peripheral Vision
In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, “modernization through technology” was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country’s peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trend—the implementation of public video surveillance. The in-depth ethnography provides evidence of how the political construction of security and surveillance as a strategic program actually conceals i…
The Fate of 'Backwardness'
In Portugal, terms such as 'modernisation', 'progress' and 'development' are continually invoked by a wide range of social actors, representing the right path and ultimate goal of all political and social change, but on the other hand conceal the actual truth that, to use Latour's expression: 'We have never been modern'. The result is that the demand for modernisation is accompanied by the parallel reification of 'backwardness'. Alluding to Portu…
Manuela Ivone Cunha e Jean-Yves Durand (orgs.), Razões de Saúde
“Tenho aprendido muito com o povo. Nele, as coisas que dão à vida a inesgotável grandeza não foram ainda violadas nem empobrecidas. O instinto do povo guarda-lhes o mistério e a seiva. Ainda hoje, na consulta, ao insistir com um aldeão para que me descrevesse o seu mal, ele, por fim, disse-me:— É a natureza comida.A natureza – o sexo. Deem-me tratados onde se atinja esta sabedoria e esta serena humildade” (Fernando Namora, Domingo à Tarde). Razõe…
Video Surveillance in Portugal
This article gives a detailed account of the political processes and stages involved in the implementation of video surveillance devices in two major Portuguese cities, Oporto and Lisbon. It seeks to draw two main conclusions regarding the introduction of these systems in public areas and the developments that they have undergone over the period under analysis. The first is that installing these devices reflects a political response designed to p…
Substitute parents
Global vigilantes edited by Pratten, David and Atreyee Sen
Biology, Biography, and Technology
This review considers four recent works on in vitro fertilization; human egg donation; the relation among family, kinship and nature; genetic databases, and medical research. Assisted reproductive technology has increasingly become a tool for the artificial production of body parts. Anthropology is reformulating kinship and family theories, taking into account their relationship with biology (in the strict sense of body) and technology as primary…
Samatas' Surveillance in Greece
A reinvenção do eu através do discurso
Tendo como objeto empírico a associação Famílias Anônimas, neste ensaio procuro analisar três aspectos distintos relacionados entre si pela abordagem terapêutica preconizada por estes grupos: a) o uso da narrativa oral e a troca de experiências comuns como forma de aquisição de novos significados e novas formas de atuação em relação ao problema que leva os membros a procurarem tal associação; b) o conflito entre o discurso e a prática, consideran…
O anonimato em contexto de grupo
Este ensaio discute o conceito de anonimato de uma forma geral, partindo para a sua problematização tendo como caso de estudo as associações Famílias Anónimas, Narcóticos Anónimos e Alcoólicos Anónimos, procurando entender-se o modo como o anonimato assume contornos específicos e pertinentes para a sua compreensão
(A) Negociação da identidade nos grupos de auto-ajuda
Propõe-se uma abordagem ao estudo das Famílias Anónimas sob duas vertentes intrinsecamente interligadas. Por um lado, compreender de que forma é que fazer-se parte de um grupo de Famílias Anónimas se apresenta como uma aprendizagem e com encontrar um “novo modo de vida”, processo este de profunda negociação identitária. Por outro lado, e subjacente a esta questão, procuraremos mostrar como o anonimato, analisado especificamente à luz deste contex…
Heroína
Etnografia em contexto carcerário
Este artigo compara duas pesquisas etnográficas em contexto penitenciário - uma prisão masculina em Portugal e uma prisão feminina em Espanha - a partir de duas perspectivas: 1) uma dimensão metodológica: ser uma antropóloga mulher tem influência no desenrolar da investigação empírica em prisões femininas e em prisões masculinas, condiciona o acesso ao terreno, observação do quotidiano prisional e as relações que se constroem com os interlocutore…
Close insecurity
The study of security within a prison environment implies the observation of a complex phenomenon: on the one hand, inmates are defined as agents of insecurity, insofar as they are the authors of criminal acts, which to the outside world represent everything that is perceived as a threat - in terms of the law, order and general well-being. On the other hand, the prison is often characterised as a space riddled with fear, uncertainty and insecurit…
Incarceration as Violence
This article sets the groundwork for understanding prison violence as a broad and interrelated phenomenon which is bound by shifting notions of legitimacy. We argue that the concept of violence can help understand how the “pains of imprisonment” are inflicted and punishment is produced in different prison settings. Drawing upon fieldwork carried out in several Portuguese prisons, we describe how unequal sets of circumstances are imposed on groups…
O anonimato em contexto de grupo
Este ensaio discute o conceito de anonimato de uma forma geral, partindo para a sua problematização tendo como caso de estudo as associações Famílias Anónimas, Narcóticos Anónimos e Alcoólicos Anónimos, procurando entender-se o modo como o anonimato assume contornos específicos e pertinentes para a sua compreensão
From the Margins
How does our understanding of security change when we reflect on it from the perspective of crime offender, and within the space where the security apparatus assumes a vital importance-the prison? Based on ethnographic data from 12 prison facilities in Portugal, in this article I discuss vernacular notions of security from the perspective of male and female inmates. My aim is to bring to the forefront of the Anthropology of Security research the …
Heroína
(A) Negociação da identidade nos grupos de auto-ajuda
Propõe-se uma abordagem ao estudo das Famílias Anónimas sob duas vertentes intrinsecamente interligadas. Por um lado, compreender de que forma é que fazer-se parte de um grupo de Famílias Anónimas se apresenta como uma aprendizagem e com encontrar um “novo modo de vida”, processo este de profunda negociação identitária. Por outro lado, e subjacente a esta questão, procuraremos mostrar como o anonimato, analisado especificamente à luz deste contex…
Heroína
O anonimato em contexto de grupo
Este ensaio discute o conceito de anonimato de uma forma geral, partindo para a sua problematização tendo como caso de estudo as associações Famílias Anónimas, Narcóticos Anónimos e Alcoólicos Anónimos, procurando entender-se o modo como o anonimato assume contornos específicos e pertinentes para a sua compreensão
A reinvenção do eu através do discurso
Tendo como objeto empírico a associação Famílias Anônimas, neste ensaio procuro analisar três aspectos distintos relacionados entre si pela abordagem terapêutica preconizada por estes grupos: a) o uso da narrativa oral e a troca de experiências comuns como forma de aquisição de novos significados e novas formas de atuação em relação ao problema que leva os membros a procurarem tal associação; b) o conflito entre o discurso e a prática, consideran…
Global vigilantes edited by Pratten, David and Atreyee Sen
Biology, Biography, and Technology
This review considers four recent works on in vitro fertilization; human egg donation; the relation among family, kinship and nature; genetic databases, and medical research. Assisted reproductive technology has increasingly become a tool for the artificial production of body parts. Anthropology is reformulating kinship and family theories, taking into account their relationship with biology (in the strict sense of body) and technology as primary…
Samatas' Surveillance in Greece
Substitute parents
Video Surveillance in Portugal
This article gives a detailed account of the political processes and stages involved in the implementation of video surveillance devices in two major Portuguese cities, Oporto and Lisbon. It seeks to draw two main conclusions regarding the introduction of these systems in public areas and the developments that they have undergone over the period under analysis. The first is that installing these devices reflects a political response designed to p…
The Fate of 'Backwardness'
In Portugal, terms such as 'modernisation', 'progress' and 'development' are continually invoked by a wide range of social actors, representing the right path and ultimate goal of all political and social change, but on the other hand conceal the actual truth that, to use Latour's expression: 'We have never been modern'. The result is that the demand for modernisation is accompanied by the parallel reification of 'backwardness'. Alluding to Portu…
Manuela Ivone Cunha e Jean-Yves Durand (orgs.), Razões de Saúde
“Tenho aprendido muito com o povo. Nele, as coisas que dão à vida a inesgotável grandeza não foram ainda violadas nem empobrecidas. O instinto do povo guarda-lhes o mistério e a seiva. Ainda hoje, na consulta, ao insistir com um aldeão para que me descrevesse o seu mal, ele, por fim, disse-me:— É a natureza comida.A natureza – o sexo. Deem-me tratados onde se atinja esta sabedoria e esta serena humildade” (Fernando Namora, Domingo à Tarde). Razõe…
Peripheral Vision
In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, “modernization through technology” was the major political motto used to develop and improve the country’s peripheral and backward condition. This study reflects on one of the resulting, specific aspects of this trend—the implementation of public video surveillance. The in-depth ethnography provides evidence of how the political construction of security and surveillance as a strategic program actually conceals i…
Close insecurity
The study of security within a prison environment implies the observation of a complex phenomenon: on the one hand, inmates are defined as agents of insecurity, insofar as they are the authors of criminal acts, which to the outside world represent everything that is perceived as a threat - in terms of the law, order and general well-being. On the other hand, the prison is often characterised as a space riddled with fear, uncertainty and insecurit…
Female Imprisonment
Incarceration as Violence
This article sets the groundwork for understanding prison violence as a broad and interrelated phenomenon which is bound by shifting notions of legitimacy. We argue that the concept of violence can help understand how the “pains of imprisonment” are inflicted and punishment is produced in different prison settings. Drawing upon fieldwork carried out in several Portuguese prisons, we describe how unequal sets of circumstances are imposed on groups…
Etnografia em contexto carcerário
Este artigo compara duas pesquisas etnográficas em contexto penitenciário - uma prisão masculina em Portugal e uma prisão feminina em Espanha - a partir de duas perspectivas: 1) uma dimensão metodológica: ser uma antropóloga mulher tem influência no desenrolar da investigação empírica em prisões femininas e em prisões masculinas, condiciona o acesso ao terreno, observação do quotidiano prisional e as relações que se constroem com os interlocutore…
The Adultery of a Woman Is a Very Serious Attack on the Honor and Dignity of a Man.” Perceptions about Gender Violence of Judges and Inmates
Crossing the analysis of court rulings on domestic violence produced in Portuguese courts and semi-structured interviews of men convicted of this same crime, this article emphasizes the transversality of gender categories as social markers in the different dimensions of Portugal’s social and institutional life, as well as the processes through which an inseparability between gender and state is built. From the comparative analysis of our research…
From the Margins
How does our understanding of security change when we reflect on it from the perspective of crime offender, and within the space where the security apparatus assumes a vital importance-the prison? Based on ethnographic data from 12 prison facilities in Portugal, in this article I discuss vernacular notions of security from the perspective of male and female inmates. My aim is to bring to the forefront of the Anthropology of Security research the …
Mujeres, Crimen, Castigo. Contribuciones al estudio de la seguridad femenina
En este artículo propongo pensar el nexo crimen-seguridad recurriendo al paradigma de la seguridad humana, abarcando "la seguridad física (seguridad contra la violencia y el crimen) y la seguridad material (seguridad contra la pobreza y las privaciones)" (Kaldor, 2020:1). Al estudiar la (in)seguridad de género desde la perspectiva de mujeres infractoras, cuestiono las relaciones entre los motivos que movilizan la práctica del crimen y las experie…
Marginality, security, surveillance, crime, imprisonment
This article engages with contemporary anthropological and ethnographic methodological debates by reflecting on the challenges of conducting research in contexts related with marginality, deviance, surveillance, and imprisonment. It examines the tensions surrounding access, researcher subjectivity, and the positionalities negotiated in the field, emphasizing the epistemological relevance of long-term ethnographic engagement. Rather than treating …
Introduction
In the global political landscape, as far-right parties gain prominence, populist rhetoric advocating for harsher justice and security policies is becoming increasingly prevalent. Proponents of this rhetoric base their discourse on 'alarming' violence and crime rates and discredit more liberal approaches, as well as research that deconstruct those Manichean visions. In this introduction, we ask what tangible contributions qualitative and ethnogra…
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