CRM 2309 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Barter, Black Market, Prison Food
28 Feb 2017
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Dining in: the symbolic power of food in prison. Exploring food-based resistance in prison is valuable because it provides insight into how prisoners use consumptive spaces to negotiate and contest the power inequalities resulting from the prison"s highly regulated environment. Power politics and the consumption of prison food. Food inside prison is one of these elements that acts as a site of contention where struggles over power, and identity (de)construction and maintenance can be played out. Because of the symbolic power that food possesses, it is a form of communication through which expressions of domination and resistance can be made. This approach emphasises the concept of prisoner agency and resistance within an environment that is dominated by immense power inequalities. How a prisoner chooses to react to the restrictions and deprivations of institutional life is not only based upon the structure of the institution but also upon his or her own unique character and sense of self.
