Francesca Cerbini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Cerbini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Cerbini |
| SIGNATURE | CERBINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1323-8435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Maya Wind, Torri d'avorio e d'acciaio. Come le università israeliane sostengono l'apartheid del popolo palestinese
Religions and religious freedom in Portuguese prison
Based on the ethnographic research in a Portuguese women’s prison, this article offers a first insight into a subject scarcely discussed in Portuguese academia: the management of religion and religious freedom and diversity in prison. Through differing and intersecting views and with constant reference to the academic literature on religion in European prisons, the article highlights Catholics and Pentecostals positioning and how religion in pris…
Between charity and conquest. Humanitarian action, policing, and neo-Pentecostals in a Portuguese women’s prison
Based on my ethnographic research, this article explores current relations between a state security institution in a European democratic country and neo-Pentecostals during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the growing presence and positioning of the powerful Brazilian Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD) in a Portuguese women’s prison, shedding light on the creation of its proselytising apparatus. This article shows how the pandemic created…
On the possibility of engaged ethnography in prison
The state responded brutally to lockdown protests in Italian prisons soon after Italy announced its first national Covid-19 lockdown. This article affirms the need for prison ethnographies, exploring ethical and methodological directions to research what is potentially a violent environment. However, within a prison context devoted to secrecy and suspicion, this research focuses on mundane fieldwork topics 'other than violence'; namely, everyday …
Food and order. An ethnography of daily meals and contamination in a Bolivian self-governed prison
This article examines inmates’ nutritional and culinary choices within the Bolivian male prison of San Pedro. The analysis focuses on the daily meal offered by the institution and its complex semantic and symbolic ramifications. I show how the idea of contamination related to prison food is a powerful medium to establish an internal order within this self-governed prison. I look into the discourses shaped around daily meals and the tranquilizer, …
Rituales para hacer «justicia». Maldiciones, invocaciones, yatiris y ofrendas para la libertad en la cárcel de San Pedro (La Paz, Bolivia)
This article focuses on the work of yatiris prisoners, ritual specialists who officiate Andean ritual offerings on behalf of inmates who require their services. These offerings, given to the principal supernatural beings of the Andean pantheon the day before sentencing, serve to obtain the prisoner release or at least a significant reduction of his sentence. Therefore, yatiri is asked not only to act as a specialist in the cure of diseases, but h…
"Qué es la interculturalidad en la cárcel de San Pedro (La Paz, Bolivia)? Algunas reflexiones desde "dentro
Este artículo explora el concepto de “interculturalidad” entendido como ayuda mutua entre personas que viven en un contesto muy crítico: la cárcel masculina de San Pedro. Se esbozan algunas ideas sobre la manera de entender ciertos padecimientos y sobre la oposición entre lo “tradicional-indígena” y lo “occidental-biomédico”, dos bloques que se tienden a considerar homogéneos, separados e impermeables. Desde el punto de vista de los pacientes rec…
Food and order. An ethnography of daily meals and contamination in a Bolivian self-governed prison
This article examines inmates’ nutritional and culinary choices within the Bolivian male prison of San Pedro. The analysis focuses on the daily meal offered by the institution and its complex semantic and symbolic ramifications. I show how the idea of contamination related to prison food is a powerful medium to establish an internal order within this self-governed prison. I look into the discourses shaped around daily meals and the tranquilizer, …
On the possibility of engaged ethnography in prison
The state responded brutally to lockdown protests in Italian prisons soon after Italy announced its first national Covid-19 lockdown. This article affirms the need for prison ethnographies, exploring ethical and methodological directions to research what is potentially a violent environment. However, within a prison context devoted to secrecy and suspicion, this research focuses on mundane fieldwork topics 'other than violence'; namely, everyday …
"Qué es la interculturalidad en la cárcel de San Pedro (La Paz, Bolivia)? Algunas reflexiones desde "dentro
Este artículo explora el concepto de “interculturalidad” entendido como ayuda mutua entre personas que viven en un contesto muy crítico: la cárcel masculina de San Pedro. Se esbozan algunas ideas sobre la manera de entender ciertos padecimientos y sobre la oposición entre lo “tradicional-indígena” y lo “occidental-biomédico”, dos bloques que se tienden a considerar homogéneos, separados e impermeables. Desde el punto de vista de los pacientes rec…
Rituales para hacer «justicia». Maldiciones, invocaciones, yatiris y ofrendas para la libertad en la cárcel de San Pedro (La Paz, Bolivia)
This article focuses on the work of yatiris prisoners, ritual specialists who officiate Andean ritual offerings on behalf of inmates who require their services. These offerings, given to the principal supernatural beings of the Andean pantheon the day before sentencing, serve to obtain the prisoner release or at least a significant reduction of his sentence. Therefore, yatiri is asked not only to act as a specialist in the cure of diseases, but h…
Food and order. An ethnography of daily meals and contamination in a Bolivian self-governed prison
This article examines inmates’ nutritional and culinary choices within the Bolivian male prison of San Pedro. The analysis focuses on the daily meal offered by the institution and its complex semantic and symbolic ramifications. I show how the idea of contamination related to prison food is a powerful medium to establish an internal order within this self-governed prison. I look into the discourses shaped around daily meals and the tranquilizer, …
On the possibility of engaged ethnography in prison
The state responded brutally to lockdown protests in Italian prisons soon after Italy announced its first national Covid-19 lockdown. This article affirms the need for prison ethnographies, exploring ethical and methodological directions to research what is potentially a violent environment. However, within a prison context devoted to secrecy and suspicion, this research focuses on mundane fieldwork topics 'other than violence'; namely, everyday …
Religions and religious freedom in Portuguese prison
Based on the ethnographic research in a Portuguese women’s prison, this article offers a first insight into a subject scarcely discussed in Portuguese academia: the management of religion and religious freedom and diversity in prison. Through differing and intersecting views and with constant reference to the academic literature on religion in European prisons, the article highlights Catholics and Pentecostals positioning and how religion in pris…
Between charity and conquest. Humanitarian action, policing, and neo-Pentecostals in a Portuguese women’s prison
Based on my ethnographic research, this article explores current relations between a state security institution in a European democratic country and neo-Pentecostals during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the growing presence and positioning of the powerful Brazilian Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD) in a Portuguese women’s prison, shedding light on the creation of its proselytising apparatus. This article shows how the pandemic created…
Maya Wind, Torri d'avorio e d'acciaio. Come le università israeliane sostengono l'apartheid del popolo palestinese
Political science (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Prison (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · History (3 works)