Anastasia Chamberlen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247403 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anastasia Chamberlen |
| PRENOMES | Anastasia |
| SOBRENOME | Chamberlen |
| ASSINATURA | CHAMBERLEN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2016-9316 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Making room
This article develops an embodied and relational account of creative and artistic engagements within prisons as grounds for speculative reflection about alternative, non-punitive approaches to justice. Building on scholarship concerning liminal prison spaces and ‘emotion zones’, sensorial and narrative criminology, geographical theories and anthropologies of belonging, we highlight how ‘refurnishing activities’ in prisons can produce differentiat…
Curating a genre
Experiences of incarceration and of artistic engagement have a long – if mostly under-recorded – history, and the urge to create whilst in captivity is increasingly recognized as an important means of expression, survival, resistance and transformation for artists who are largely invisibilised and marginalized. Despite their growing recognition, little is known about prisoner arts as a distinctive genre and about the artists behind these artworks…
Presenting justice
This paper engages with dialectical critical realism to reflect on the problems and limitations regarding our contemporary justice practices and understandings. Our starting point is the idea that contemporary approaches to justice in liberal democratic settings are predominantly hostile; they are overly focused on episodic injustices, and dominant forms of addressing these injustices are pervaded with punitive logics. This pathological character…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Decolonizing the Criminal Question
This collection engages with debates within ‘criminology’ about matters of colonial power, which have come to be conceptualized through the language of ‘decolonization’. It explores the uneasy relationship between the ‘criminal question’ and colonialism, and foregrounds the relevance of the legacies of this relationship to criminological enquiries. It invites and seeks to pursue a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonial…
Decolonising the Criminal Question
Decolonizing the criminal question
In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from th…
Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice
This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in c…
Coping with Imprisonment
This chapter considers how the prisoner copes with the ‘pains of imprisonment’. It suggests that coping in prison relies on practices that engage the prisoner’s body in a paradoxical manner. Coping, it is argued, entails acting for and against one’s own body. To demonstrate this, the chapter considers various coping strategies that, at the same time as they are self-distracting, are arguably also self-destructing or further generate emotional tur…
Self-Harming and Prison Pain
This chapter develops the links between coping and painful emotions in prison, by looking at self-injury practices as one particularly problematic form of coping that is both common among women prisoners, and increasingly more prominent in English prisons overall. This last substantive chapter of the book uses self-injury as a case study through which to explore an application of the book’s main arguments, findings, and implications, examining th…
Presenting the Prisoner
This chapter considers the importance of gender, a key concept for this book, in the examination of the punishment–body relation, and reviews findings on the look of the body and the management of physical, gendered appearance within the restricted and complex politics of imprisonment. It focuses particularly on the role of dress in custody and on various consumptive props used by women to manage their gendered identities and performances in vari…
Locating the Historical and Contemporary Context of Women’s Imprisonment
This chapter sketches the broader context of the study presented in this book. It starts with a historical account of imprisonment, focusing particularly on women’s imprisonment, and attempts to trace the centrality of prisoner bodies in the delivery of punishment via the prison since the eighteenth century. Through this brief historiography, it examines how the body has been the object and subject of punishment and, since the start, has been par…
Materializing and Feeling Punishment
This chapter begins the book’s illustration of the empirical research findings of the study. The chapter argues that women’s experience of imprisonment is embodied largely because, in being the object of punishment within prison, bodies become acutely aware of the particulars of prison space and time to the extent that they materially and physically sense and feel punishment. The chapter focuses particularly on how the prisoner becomes aware of h…
Changing Bodies and Ambivalent Subjectivities During and After Prison
Taking the previous chapter’s argument one step further, this chapter suggests that because of this bodily awareness and of various shifts in lifestyles due to the break that imprisonment constitutes in their life course, women’s bodies change significantly as the result of imprisonment. The present chapter outlines various examples of physiological change on women’s bodies in order to explore the complexity of the effects of imprisonment on wome…
Conclusion
The conclusion of the book draws together a summary of the study’s arguments and findings, and reaffirms its invitation for a more affective, bodily aware, and theoretically richer sociology of prison life.
Embodying Punishment
This book offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women’s lived experiences of imprisonment in England. It puts forward a feminist critique of the prison, and argues that prisoner bodies are central to our understanding of modern punishment, and particularly of women’s survival and resistance during and after prison. Drawing on a feminist phenomenological framework informed by a serious engagement with scholars such as Maurice Merleau-P…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Problem of Punishment
This introduction presents a collection of papers by Alan Norrie, Craig Reeves, Susanne Karstedt, Tiffany Bergin, Michael Koch, Mary Bosworth, Anastasia Chamberlen, Henrique Carvalho and Anita Dockley. It briefly discusses the origins of this collaborative research project, and outlines the theme, aims and format of the special issue, which calls for an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed and conceptually and practically critical examinatio…
The Thrill of the Chase
This article offers one of the first analyses of the current and ongoing crisis affecting English and Welsh prisons and of recent proposals for prison reform. The article pits the impression of novelty surrounding the current framework of incarceration against the notion promoted by critical scholarship that the nexus between crisis and reform is not new. Building on this debate, we deploy an original theoretical perspective, grounded on the conc…
Changing Bodies, Ambivalent Subjectivities, and Women’s Punishment
This article seeks to explore the punishment–body relation by looking at women’s experience of imprisonment and their embodied identities. It traces the situational construction of bodies and subjectivities, and maps changes in women’s self-perceptions and body-image in and out of prison. Through examples from a qualitative study I conducted with women who experienced punishment in England, I show that while punishment targets the prisoner’s body…
Why punishment pleases
The argument advanced in this paper is that the motivation to punish relies on punishment producing a kind of solidarity that allows individuals to pursue emotional release together with a sense of belonging, without having to question or address why it is that they felt alienated and insecure in the first place. This raises the possibility that the reason why we believe punishment to be useful, and why we are motivated to punish, is because we d…
Embodying prison pain
This paper explores the meanings and motivations of self-injury practices as disclosed in interviews with a small group of female former prisoners in England. In considering their testimonies through a feminist perspective, I seek to illuminate aspects of their experiences of imprisonment that go beyond the ‘pains of imprisonment’ literature. Specifically, I examine their accounts of self-injury with a focus on the embodied aspects of their exper…
Debating Obesity
Rich, E. Monaghan, L.F. and Aphramor, L. ( eds .), Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 £55.00 (hbk ) X + 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-230-22267-0 Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives offers a wide ranging, ‘inter-disciplinary and sociologically imaginative’ (p.220) collection of research that adds a critical and practically oriented approach to weight studies. With a progressive tone, the edited collection …
Why punishment pleases
The argument advanced in this paper is that the motivation to punish relies on punishment producing a kind of solidarity that allows individuals to pursue emotional release together with a sense of belonging, without having to question or address why it is that they felt alienated and insecure in the first place. This raises the possibility that the reason why we believe punishment to be useful, and why we are motivated to punish, is because we d…
Embodying prison pain
This paper explores the meanings and motivations of self-injury practices as disclosed in interviews with a small group of female former prisoners in England. In considering their testimonies through a feminist perspective, I seek to illuminate aspects of their experiences of imprisonment that go beyond the ‘pains of imprisonment’ literature. Specifically, I examine their accounts of self-injury with a focus on the embodied aspects of their exper…
Decolonizing the criminal question
In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from th…
Changing Bodies, Ambivalent Subjectivities, and Women’s Punishment
This article seeks to explore the punishment–body relation by looking at women’s experience of imprisonment and their embodied identities. It traces the situational construction of bodies and subjectivities, and maps changes in women’s self-perceptions and body-image in and out of prison. Through examples from a qualitative study I conducted with women who experienced punishment in England, I show that while punishment targets the prisoner’s body…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice
This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in c…
The Thrill of the Chase
This article offers one of the first analyses of the current and ongoing crisis affecting English and Welsh prisons and of recent proposals for prison reform. The article pits the impression of novelty surrounding the current framework of incarceration against the notion promoted by critical scholarship that the nexus between crisis and reform is not new. Building on this debate, we deploy an original theoretical perspective, grounded on the conc…
Debating Obesity
Rich, E. Monaghan, L.F. and Aphramor, L. ( eds .), Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010 £55.00 (hbk ) X + 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-230-22267-0 Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives offers a wide ranging, ‘inter-disciplinary and sociologically imaginative’ (p.220) collection of research that adds a critical and practically oriented approach to weight studies. With a progressive tone, the edited collection …
Embodying prison pain
This paper explores the meanings and motivations of self-injury practices as disclosed in interviews with a small group of female former prisoners in England. In considering their testimonies through a feminist perspective, I seek to illuminate aspects of their experiences of imprisonment that go beyond the ‘pains of imprisonment’ literature. Specifically, I examine their accounts of self-injury with a focus on the embodied aspects of their exper…
Changing Bodies, Ambivalent Subjectivities, and Women’s Punishment
This article seeks to explore the punishment–body relation by looking at women’s experience of imprisonment and their embodied identities. It traces the situational construction of bodies and subjectivities, and maps changes in women’s self-perceptions and body-image in and out of prison. Through examples from a qualitative study I conducted with women who experienced punishment in England, I show that while punishment targets the prisoner’s body…
Why punishment pleases
The argument advanced in this paper is that the motivation to punish relies on punishment producing a kind of solidarity that allows individuals to pursue emotional release together with a sense of belonging, without having to question or address why it is that they felt alienated and insecure in the first place. This raises the possibility that the reason why we believe punishment to be useful, and why we are motivated to punish, is because we d…
Coping with Imprisonment
This chapter considers how the prisoner copes with the ‘pains of imprisonment’. It suggests that coping in prison relies on practices that engage the prisoner’s body in a paradoxical manner. Coping, it is argued, entails acting for and against one’s own body. To demonstrate this, the chapter considers various coping strategies that, at the same time as they are self-distracting, are arguably also self-destructing or further generate emotional tur…
Self-Harming and Prison Pain
This chapter develops the links between coping and painful emotions in prison, by looking at self-injury practices as one particularly problematic form of coping that is both common among women prisoners, and increasingly more prominent in English prisons overall. This last substantive chapter of the book uses self-injury as a case study through which to explore an application of the book’s main arguments, findings, and implications, examining th…
Presenting the Prisoner
This chapter considers the importance of gender, a key concept for this book, in the examination of the punishment–body relation, and reviews findings on the look of the body and the management of physical, gendered appearance within the restricted and complex politics of imprisonment. It focuses particularly on the role of dress in custody and on various consumptive props used by women to manage their gendered identities and performances in vari…
Locating the Historical and Contemporary Context of Women’s Imprisonment
This chapter sketches the broader context of the study presented in this book. It starts with a historical account of imprisonment, focusing particularly on women’s imprisonment, and attempts to trace the centrality of prisoner bodies in the delivery of punishment via the prison since the eighteenth century. Through this brief historiography, it examines how the body has been the object and subject of punishment and, since the start, has been par…
Materializing and Feeling Punishment
This chapter begins the book’s illustration of the empirical research findings of the study. The chapter argues that women’s experience of imprisonment is embodied largely because, in being the object of punishment within prison, bodies become acutely aware of the particulars of prison space and time to the extent that they materially and physically sense and feel punishment. The chapter focuses particularly on how the prisoner becomes aware of h…
Changing Bodies and Ambivalent Subjectivities During and After Prison
Taking the previous chapter’s argument one step further, this chapter suggests that because of this bodily awareness and of various shifts in lifestyles due to the break that imprisonment constitutes in their life course, women’s bodies change significantly as the result of imprisonment. The present chapter outlines various examples of physiological change on women’s bodies in order to explore the complexity of the effects of imprisonment on wome…
Conclusion
The conclusion of the book draws together a summary of the study’s arguments and findings, and reaffirms its invitation for a more affective, bodily aware, and theoretically richer sociology of prison life.
Embodying Punishment
This book offers a theoretical and empirical exploration of women’s lived experiences of imprisonment in England. It puts forward a feminist critique of the prison, and argues that prisoner bodies are central to our understanding of modern punishment, and particularly of women’s survival and resistance during and after prison. Drawing on a feminist phenomenological framework informed by a serious engagement with scholars such as Maurice Merleau-P…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Problem of Punishment
This introduction presents a collection of papers by Alan Norrie, Craig Reeves, Susanne Karstedt, Tiffany Bergin, Michael Koch, Mary Bosworth, Anastasia Chamberlen, Henrique Carvalho and Anita Dockley. It briefly discusses the origins of this collaborative research project, and outlines the theme, aims and format of the special issue, which calls for an interdisciplinary, theoretically informed and conceptually and practically critical examinatio…
The Thrill of the Chase
This article offers one of the first analyses of the current and ongoing crisis affecting English and Welsh prisons and of recent proposals for prison reform. The article pits the impression of novelty surrounding the current framework of incarceration against the notion promoted by critical scholarship that the nexus between crisis and reform is not new. Building on this debate, we deploy an original theoretical perspective, grounded on the conc…
Punitiveness Beyond Criminal Justice
This article advances a holistic conceptualization of punitiveness that acknowledges its complexity and contemporary social and political pervasiveness. We argue that punitiveness is best understood as a phenomenological complex operating at a personal, symbolic, political and structural level, which borrows from, but extrapolates the confines of criminal justice institutions. The article examines limitations in articulations of punitiveness in c…
Decolonizing the criminal question
In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from th…
Decolonizing the Criminal Question
This collection engages with debates within ‘criminology’ about matters of colonial power, which have come to be conceptualized through the language of ‘decolonization’. It explores the uneasy relationship between the ‘criminal question’ and colonialism, and foregrounds the relevance of the legacies of this relationship to criminological enquiries. It invites and seeks to pursue a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonial…
Decolonising the Criminal Question
Curating a genre
Experiences of incarceration and of artistic engagement have a long – if mostly under-recorded – history, and the urge to create whilst in captivity is increasingly recognized as an important means of expression, survival, resistance and transformation for artists who are largely invisibilised and marginalized. Despite their growing recognition, little is known about prisoner arts as a distinctive genre and about the artists behind these artworks…
Presenting justice
This paper engages with dialectical critical realism to reflect on the problems and limitations regarding our contemporary justice practices and understandings. Our starting point is the idea that contemporary approaches to justice in liberal democratic settings are predominantly hostile; they are overly focused on episodic injustices, and dominant forms of addressing these injustices are pervaded with punitive logics. This pathological character…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Making room
This article develops an embodied and relational account of creative and artistic engagements within prisons as grounds for speculative reflection about alternative, non-punitive approaches to justice. Building on scholarship concerning liminal prison spaces and ‘emotion zones’, sensorial and narrative criminology, geographical theories and anthropologies of belonging, we highlight how ‘refurnishing activities’ in prisons can produce differentiat…
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