CRM 2309 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Symbolic Power, Prison Food, Correctional Service Of Canada
9 Sep 2016
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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 prison"s highly regulated environment. Symbolic power food possesses; form of communication through which expressions of domination and resistance can be made. No longer able to use the opportunity of a dinner to express affection. Group forms of resistance referred to as legitimate" activities include practices that are sanctioned and supported by institutional authorities and the mission statement and policies of correctional services canada (csc) more generally. Key legitimate group activity; to form ethnic-based groups that received the approval of the institution to co-ordinate monthly orders of culturally appropriate foods. Illegitimate group activities included behavior that was not endorsed, or approved of, by institutional authorities: secondary adjustments practices that indirectly confront institutional authority because they are forbidden by that authority (i. e. stealing)
