Carceral Arts

Anastasia Chamberlen is Professor of Sociology and Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Captive Arts research project, University of Warwick.Ruth Bernatek is Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Warwick and was previously Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Captive Arts project.

• 1. Introduction – Anastasia Chamberlen and Ruth BernatekPart I: Identity & The Creative Self2. In Conversation With Dalton Harrison – Ruth Bernatek, Anastasia Chamberlen, and Dalton Harrison3. Nameless Not Shameless: International Visual Art Prison Collaborations and the Questions They Raise About Artist Anonymity – Faye Claridge4. Marks, Doodles, Care, and Agency: Fieldwork Fragments From an Emerging Study Into Self-Led Creativity and Wellbeing Inside Prison Cells – Andrea Hadley-Johnson5. Intersections on the Inside: Gender and Class in a Prison Art Studio in California, USA – Laura Pecenco6. Escaping the Framing: Common Aesthetic Practices in Latin American Prisons – Cristiane Checchia and Mário René Rodríguez Torres7. Overcoming Dehumanisation: Prison Arts and Future IDs – Luis S. GarciaPart II: Representations & Methods8. In Conversation With Damien Linnane – Ruth Bernatek, Anastasia Chamberlen, and Damien Linnane9. A Prison, a Prisoner, and a Prison Guard: An Exploration of Carcerality in the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region – Susan Aboeid, Supna Kapoor, and Sumaya Tabbah10. Getting Out by Getting In: The Group as an Escape – Charlie Weinberg11. Carceral Performance, Histories of Prison Arts, and Liberatory Memory Work in Rideout’s The Ballad of the Whistling Man – Sarah Bartley12. Definitive Practice: Promoting Infrastructures of Creative Rehabilitation in England – Sarah HartleyPart III: Work, Healing & Resistance13. In Conversation With Jess Collier – Anastasia Chamberlen and Jess Collier14. A Story of Creative Writing in Prisons: Working on Generative Justice – Ella Simpson15. Empowering Voices: Applied Puppetry as a Tool for Healing and Identity Mapping in Young Refugee Inmates in Greece – Magda Vitsou16. From ‘Crime Scene’ to ‘Music Scene’? Music Therapy in a Scandinavian Prison – Kjetil Hjørnevik17. Bodies, Resilience, and Dance in French and Canadian Prisons – Sylvie Frigon and Claire Jenny18. Prison Writing and Critical Perspectives on Justice and Incarceration in Argentina – Juan Pablo Parchuc19. Epilogue: 4 Letters From HMP Long Lartin