Planning working futures
Precarious Work Through Carceral Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Richardson (0000-0002-6213-785X, Durham University, corresponding author), Tatiana A Thieme (0000-0002-0392-8141, UCL) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-44 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2018.1446216 |
| OpenAlex | W2787343019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 52 |
Geographies of precarious work are advanced through an eight month qualitative study of prisoners nearing release from HMP Brixton in London, providing a spatial rendering of working uncertainty. This builds on geographical scholarship highlighting the porosity of prison walls such that carceral space is understood as non-totalising yet extensive. Release on Temporary License (ROTL) is examined as a mechanism of such porosity, allowing offenders to undertake work outside prison. Within the context of the rehabilitation agenda in England and Wales that emphasises the generative function of prison time, we frame the ROTL as a flow mechanism that anticipates both the end of the custodial sentence and precarious work. Experiences of such precariousness emerge through prisoners’ processes of planning for future work through states of suspension, compulsion and experimentation. The focus on planning work contributes to understandings firstly of the porosity of carceral space and secondly of labour precarity. Firstly, it highlights the frictions in the flow mechanism of the ROTL, such that the porosity of carceral space cannot be understood as seamless mobility. Secondly, these frictions indicate how the structural condition of labour precarity can be lived through forms of mundane stability that might be generative as well as exhausting
Context (archaeology · Criminology · Geography · Political science · Precarity · Prison · Scholarship · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law
Qualitative methods II
Interfaces of precarity and the networks of precarious lifeworlds
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance
It's an awful thing, but it's better than being dead’
Labour, carcerality and punishment
Geographies of night work
Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor
Doing good, doing wrong, doing time and doing harm
Living between inside and outside
Coliving housing
Youth, Globalization, and the Law
The Prison Boundary
Timepass
Making good
Rehabilitation
Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System
Social structures and desistance from crime
Discipline and Punish
Cruel Optimism
Carceral Spaces
Charity Shops
Weapons of the Weak
Doing Time
Off the Books
Sharing as a postwork style
Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists
Short-timing
Prisoner reintegration and the stigma of prison time inscribed on the body
Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor’
Doing Time” in Carceral Space
The hustle economy
Hyper-precarious lives
Labour geography 1
Conceptualizing detention
Progress in Human Geography
Re‐‘homing’ the ex‐offender
Doing Time
Against race
Animating Suspension
Geographies of Detention and Imprisonment
For the City Yet to Come
Discipline and Punish
Turning hustlers into entrepreneurs, and social needs into market demands
Conceptualizing the carceral in carceral geography
Working at the ambivalence of race
Precarious Work, Insecure Workers
Power in motion
Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Position
Sartre's Screen Projection of Freud
Sharing knowledge
Asylums
Sensing Agency and Resistance in Old Prisons
Nonstandard Employment Relations
The "hustle" amongst youth entrepreneurs in Mathare's informal waste economy
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |