Natacha Filippi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natacha Filippi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natacha |
| FAMILY NAME | Filippi |
| SIGNATURE | FILIPPI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women’s protests
This article presents a historical investigation of the modalities of protest adopted by women prisoners in South Africa from the 1970s to 1994. It explores how the introduction of a gender perspective provides new insights on the strategies of adaptation and resistance within closed institutions and the way these were intertwined with broader social dynamics. The article focuses on the criminalisation processes to which black women were subjecte…
Institutional Violence and the Law in Apartheid South Africa
In apartheid South Africa, prisons and psychiatric hospitals played a specific role in the imposition of “law and order” on a society which shared many features with other colonial settings. By examining the different dynamics relating to institutional violence, a process in which one must be wary of the ethical problems that may arise for the researcher, a clearer picture of apartheid violence and its relation to the law emerges. Prisons and psy…
Deviance, Punishment and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid
In 1994, with the upcoming first non-racial democratic elections in South Africa, riots broke out in numerous prisons throughout the country. Common-law prisoners, political inmates who had not yet been granted amnesty and offenders kept in psychiatric hospitals claimed their right to vote, challenging in the same process the boundaries of South African citizenship, which was being redefined at the time. This article focuses on Pollsmoor Prison a…
Women’s protests
This article presents a historical investigation of the modalities of protest adopted by women prisoners in South Africa from the 1970s to 1994. It explores how the introduction of a gender perspective provides new insights on the strategies of adaptation and resistance within closed institutions and the way these were intertwined with broader social dynamics. The article focuses on the criminalisation processes to which black women were subjecte…
Deviance, Punishment and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid
In 1994, with the upcoming first non-racial democratic elections in South Africa, riots broke out in numerous prisons throughout the country. Common-law prisoners, political inmates who had not yet been granted amnesty and offenders kept in psychiatric hospitals claimed their right to vote, challenging in the same process the boundaries of South African citizenship, which was being redefined at the time. This article focuses on Pollsmoor Prison a…
Institutional Violence and the Law in Apartheid South Africa
In apartheid South Africa, prisons and psychiatric hospitals played a specific role in the imposition of “law and order” on a society which shared many features with other colonial settings. By examining the different dynamics relating to institutional violence, a process in which one must be wary of the ethical problems that may arise for the researcher, a clearer picture of apartheid violence and its relation to the law emerges. Prisons and psy…
Deviance, Punishment and Logics of Subjectification during Apartheid
In 1994, with the upcoming first non-racial democratic elections in South Africa, riots broke out in numerous prisons throughout the country. Common-law prisoners, political inmates who had not yet been granted amnesty and offenders kept in psychiatric hospitals claimed their right to vote, challenging in the same process the boundaries of South African citizenship, which was being redefined at the time. This article focuses on Pollsmoor Prison a…
Women’s protests
This article presents a historical investigation of the modalities of protest adopted by women prisoners in South Africa from the 1970s to 1994. It explores how the introduction of a gender perspective provides new insights on the strategies of adaptation and resistance within closed institutions and the way these were intertwined with broader social dynamics. The article focuses on the criminalisation processes to which black women were subjecte…
Institutional Violence and the Law in Apartheid South Africa
In apartheid South Africa, prisons and psychiatric hospitals played a specific role in the imposition of “law and order” on a society which shared many features with other colonial settings. By examining the different dynamics relating to institutional violence, a process in which one must be wary of the ethical problems that may arise for the researcher, a clearer picture of apartheid violence and its relation to the law emerges. Prisons and psy…
South African History and Culture (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Colonialism (1 work) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Deviance (1 work)