Julienne Weegels
Biographic Data
| ID | 781210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julienne Weegels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Weegels |
| SIGNATURE | WEEGELS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7988-9903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toca aguantarla”
En Nicaragua, el sistema penitenciario pretende efectuar un “cambio de actitud” en los privados de libertad a través de la “reeducación penal”, entendida aquí como un sistema de cuidados patriarcales que busca mantener nociones respetables tanto de la masculinidad como de la familia heteronormativa, promovidas por el modelo policial comunitario. Así, reproduciendo estigmas arraigados en nociones morales marcadas por códigos de género y clase, gen…
Carceral Worlds
We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.Carceral Worldsoffers a necessary and timely contribution to understanding these carceral realities of the globalized present.The book asks how the carceral has become so central in life, how it manifests in different geographical locations and, finally, what the likely consequences are of living in such a carceral world. Carcera…
Carceral citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean
The punitive turn in crime control has radically altered the shape and meaning of citizenship across the Americas. Imprisonment, compulsory drug rehabilitation, and alternative forms of penal control have multiplied, circumscribing citizens’ options for social and political participation while also leading to striking new modes of social, political, and economic membership across the region. While criminalization is ordinarily viewed as something…
Carceral citizenship in post-protest Nicaragua
This paper demonstrates how the extension and intensification of penal power across Nicaragua following the 2018 protests has produced particular experiences of carceral citizenship. In order to fully understand these experiences, it is necessary to take into account that states can enforce carceral citizenship (and its restrictions, benefits, and duties) not only legally, but also extralegally. As such, I examine the tenets of carceral citizensh…
Debunking the Myth of Nicaraguan Exceptionalism
Nicaragua is often held up as an exception within the Central American panorama of criminal violence, widely presented as the safest country in the region due to its particular revolutionary legacies, the (supposed) absence of transnational gangs and drug-trafficking organisations, and the National Police's representation as an efficient and professional force. This commentary proposes an alternative reading of Nicaragua's contemporary political …
From prison to pit
The prisoner population in Latin America is highly vulnerable to violence and deadly disease due to overpopulation, understaffing and political neglect. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened their situation. Drawing from empirical research in three countries – Argentina, Colombia, and Nicaragua – this paper analyses three phases of marginalisation in prisoners’ trajectories from prison to pit. Our analysis is structured by the triple marginalisation…
Illicit City-Making and Its Materialities. Introduction to the Special Issue
Provoked by Charles Tilly’s analogy of state-making as organized crime (1985), this issue aims at better understanding the material conditions of illicit city-making – that is, of urbanization and criminal governance, as well as the criminalizing discourses and strategies that underpin them. In opposition to the liberalist paradigm of states vs. illegitimate enemies, Tilly proposed to see the dynamics of state-making (and the negotiation of prote…
(Un)Making the Insurrectional City
In this paper, we explore the socio-material infrastructures that maintained and repressed the 2018 Nicaraguan protests, as they made and unmade the insurrectional city. We consider the insurrectional city to be an urban place that is socio-materially reconfigured by the act of revolt and ensuing conflict. In Nicaragua, the insurrectional city (re)emerged as an entangled moral material battleground where past and present practices and notions of …
Freedom in the Face of Nicaragua's Hybrid Carceral System
Drawing on extensive prisons research and sustained contact with (former) prisoners in Nicaragua, this article explores three former prisoners' post-release trajectories. In the face of a hybrid state that manifests as both a legal penal state and an extralegal system of powers, colloquially referred to as el Sistema (the System), and to the backdrop of a (d)evolving political context, I argue for an understanding of the 'tightness' of post-relea…
Frompintato changed man
Even though the Sandinista nation-building project claims to stand above ethno-racial differences and instead foregrounds class as the major social divider in Nicaragua, the popular experience of class on the mestizo-dominated Pacific coast remains heavily entangled with notions of whiteness/progress and darkness/backwardness. Given that bodies and spaces of social relegation are imbued with expectations of class and color, the social imaginary e…
El sistema, la policía y la política vistos desde adentro. Un acercamiento al Estado carcelario nicaragüense de cara a la represión
No abstract available. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 74, No. 756, 2019: [147]-172
"Undoing the "Cemetery of the Living
This paper explores the gendered and spatialized dynamics that underpin prisoners’ and official discourses of “change” (cambio de actitud) in Nicaragua as these were manifested at two prison facilities during a lengthy period of prison theater training. Teasing out the way in which “change” is resisted, adapted and appropriated by prisoners as they simultaneously embody and contest state discourses of penal reeducation, I argue that while re-educ…
The Terror and Scourge of the Barrio
This paper explores the meanings that youth crime and policing acquire in the context of their mediated representation on the televised news in Nicaragua. In particular, it explores this question by juxtaposing the televised imagery of the apprehended juvenile delinquent with the discursive treatment of his person by both police and reporters on Nicaragua's most watched news shows,Acción 10andCrónica TN8. The police are presented as heroic protag…
The Terror and Scourge of the Barrio
This paper explores the meanings that youth crime and policing acquire in the context of their mediated representation on the televised news in Nicaragua. In particular, it explores this question by juxtaposing the televised imagery of the apprehended juvenile delinquent with the discursive treatment of his person by both police and reporters on Nicaragua's most watched news shows,Acción 10andCrónica TN8. The police are presented as heroic protag…
Debunking the Myth of Nicaraguan Exceptionalism
Nicaragua is often held up as an exception within the Central American panorama of criminal violence, widely presented as the safest country in the region due to its particular revolutionary legacies, the (supposed) absence of transnational gangs and drug-trafficking organisations, and the National Police's representation as an efficient and professional force. This commentary proposes an alternative reading of Nicaragua's contemporary political …
Carceral citizenship in post-protest Nicaragua
This paper demonstrates how the extension and intensification of penal power across Nicaragua following the 2018 protests has produced particular experiences of carceral citizenship. In order to fully understand these experiences, it is necessary to take into account that states can enforce carceral citizenship (and its restrictions, benefits, and duties) not only legally, but also extralegally. As such, I examine the tenets of carceral citizensh…
Illicit City-Making and Its Materialities. Introduction to the Special Issue
Provoked by Charles Tilly’s analogy of state-making as organized crime (1985), this issue aims at better understanding the material conditions of illicit city-making – that is, of urbanization and criminal governance, as well as the criminalizing discourses and strategies that underpin them. In opposition to the liberalist paradigm of states vs. illegitimate enemies, Tilly proposed to see the dynamics of state-making (and the negotiation of prote…
Frompintato changed man
Even though the Sandinista nation-building project claims to stand above ethno-racial differences and instead foregrounds class as the major social divider in Nicaragua, the popular experience of class on the mestizo-dominated Pacific coast remains heavily entangled with notions of whiteness/progress and darkness/backwardness. Given that bodies and spaces of social relegation are imbued with expectations of class and color, the social imaginary e…
(Un)Making the Insurrectional City
In this paper, we explore the socio-material infrastructures that maintained and repressed the 2018 Nicaraguan protests, as they made and unmade the insurrectional city. We consider the insurrectional city to be an urban place that is socio-materially reconfigured by the act of revolt and ensuing conflict. In Nicaragua, the insurrectional city (re)emerged as an entangled moral material battleground where past and present practices and notions of …
Freedom in the Face of Nicaragua's Hybrid Carceral System
Drawing on extensive prisons research and sustained contact with (former) prisoners in Nicaragua, this article explores three former prisoners' post-release trajectories. In the face of a hybrid state that manifests as both a legal penal state and an extralegal system of powers, colloquially referred to as el Sistema (the System), and to the backdrop of a (d)evolving political context, I argue for an understanding of the 'tightness' of post-relea…
The Terror and Scourge of the Barrio
This paper explores the meanings that youth crime and policing acquire in the context of their mediated representation on the televised news in Nicaragua. In particular, it explores this question by juxtaposing the televised imagery of the apprehended juvenile delinquent with the discursive treatment of his person by both police and reporters on Nicaragua's most watched news shows,Acción 10andCrónica TN8. The police are presented as heroic protag…
El sistema, la policía y la política vistos desde adentro. Un acercamiento al Estado carcelario nicaragüense de cara a la represión
No abstract available. ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 74, No. 756, 2019: [147]-172
"Undoing the "Cemetery of the Living
This paper explores the gendered and spatialized dynamics that underpin prisoners’ and official discourses of “change” (cambio de actitud) in Nicaragua as these were manifested at two prison facilities during a lengthy period of prison theater training. Teasing out the way in which “change” is resisted, adapted and appropriated by prisoners as they simultaneously embody and contest state discourses of penal reeducation, I argue that while re-educ…
Freedom in the Face of Nicaragua's Hybrid Carceral System
Drawing on extensive prisons research and sustained contact with (former) prisoners in Nicaragua, this article explores three former prisoners' post-release trajectories. In the face of a hybrid state that manifests as both a legal penal state and an extralegal system of powers, colloquially referred to as el Sistema (the System), and to the backdrop of a (d)evolving political context, I argue for an understanding of the 'tightness' of post-relea…
Frompintato changed man
Even though the Sandinista nation-building project claims to stand above ethno-racial differences and instead foregrounds class as the major social divider in Nicaragua, the popular experience of class on the mestizo-dominated Pacific coast remains heavily entangled with notions of whiteness/progress and darkness/backwardness. Given that bodies and spaces of social relegation are imbued with expectations of class and color, the social imaginary e…
From prison to pit
The prisoner population in Latin America is highly vulnerable to violence and deadly disease due to overpopulation, understaffing and political neglect. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened their situation. Drawing from empirical research in three countries – Argentina, Colombia, and Nicaragua – this paper analyses three phases of marginalisation in prisoners’ trajectories from prison to pit. Our analysis is structured by the triple marginalisation…
Illicit City-Making and Its Materialities. Introduction to the Special Issue
Provoked by Charles Tilly’s analogy of state-making as organized crime (1985), this issue aims at better understanding the material conditions of illicit city-making – that is, of urbanization and criminal governance, as well as the criminalizing discourses and strategies that underpin them. In opposition to the liberalist paradigm of states vs. illegitimate enemies, Tilly proposed to see the dynamics of state-making (and the negotiation of prote…
(Un)Making the Insurrectional City
In this paper, we explore the socio-material infrastructures that maintained and repressed the 2018 Nicaraguan protests, as they made and unmade the insurrectional city. We consider the insurrectional city to be an urban place that is socio-materially reconfigured by the act of revolt and ensuing conflict. In Nicaragua, the insurrectional city (re)emerged as an entangled moral material battleground where past and present practices and notions of …
Carceral citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean
The punitive turn in crime control has radically altered the shape and meaning of citizenship across the Americas. Imprisonment, compulsory drug rehabilitation, and alternative forms of penal control have multiplied, circumscribing citizens’ options for social and political participation while also leading to striking new modes of social, political, and economic membership across the region. While criminalization is ordinarily viewed as something…
Carceral citizenship in post-protest Nicaragua
This paper demonstrates how the extension and intensification of penal power across Nicaragua following the 2018 protests has produced particular experiences of carceral citizenship. In order to fully understand these experiences, it is necessary to take into account that states can enforce carceral citizenship (and its restrictions, benefits, and duties) not only legally, but also extralegally. As such, I examine the tenets of carceral citizensh…
Debunking the Myth of Nicaraguan Exceptionalism
Nicaragua is often held up as an exception within the Central American panorama of criminal violence, widely presented as the safest country in the region due to its particular revolutionary legacies, the (supposed) absence of transnational gangs and drug-trafficking organisations, and the National Police's representation as an efficient and professional force. This commentary proposes an alternative reading of Nicaragua's contemporary political …
Carceral Worlds
We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.Carceral Worldsoffers a necessary and timely contribution to understanding these carceral realities of the globalized present.The book asks how the carceral has become so central in life, how it manifests in different geographical locations and, finally, what the likely consequences are of living in such a carceral world. Carcera…
Toca aguantarla”
En Nicaragua, el sistema penitenciario pretende efectuar un “cambio de actitud” en los privados de libertad a través de la “reeducación penal”, entendida aquí como un sistema de cuidados patriarcales que busca mantener nociones respetables tanto de la masculinidad como de la familia heteronormativa, promovidas por el modelo policial comunitario. Así, reproduciendo estigmas arraigados en nociones morales marcadas por códigos de género y clase, gen…
Sociology (10 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (9 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Humanities (4 works)