Prisiones y activismo en la pandemia: cómo los supervivientes del encarcelamiento cambian lo que significa la participación cívica

Autores/as

  • Alexandra Friedman University of Michigan
  • Ashley Lucas Uni versity of Michigan
  • Efrén Paredes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/14145731033920200103

Palabras clave:

Prisión, Activismo, Ciudadanía, Boletín de la prisión, Serie web, Programación de artes carcelarias

Resumen

En medio de la pandemia de COVID-19, las personas encarceladas actualmente y anteriormente en el estado de Michigan en los Estados Unidos se están asociando con escritores y artistas del mundo libre para hacerse más visibles en este momento de crisis. Este artículo analiza tres estudios de caso (el boletín MYLIFEMATTERSTOO, la serie web Living on Loss of Privileges y la programación por correspondencia del Prison Creative Arts Project) en los que las personas encarceladas y las que han sido liberadas recientemente están utilizando su creatividad y sus redes de simpatizantes para hacer valer sus voces y derechos. Al hacerlo, insisten en que son ciudadanos que participan activamente en comunidades del mundo libre.

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Biografía del autor/a

Alexandra Friedman, University of Michigan

Is a research assistant for the Carceral State Project at the University of Michigan and is currently the Associate Producer of the web series Living on Loss of Privileges: What We Learned in Prison. She recently graduated from UM with dual master's degrees in Social Work and Music. During her studies, Friedman focused on exploring how music can be used as a tool for community empowerment and growth. 

Ashley Lucas, Uni versity of Michigan

Is associate professor of Theatre & Drama and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She is the former director of the Prison Creative Arts Project and the co-principal investigator of the Carceral State Project. Her book Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration (Bloomsbury, 2020) examines the ways in which incarcerated people use theatre to counteract the dehumanizing forces of the prison. Lucas is also the author of an ethnographic play about the families of prisoners entitled Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass, which she has performed as a one-woman show throughout the U.S. and in Ireland, Brazil, and Canada. She runs the PCAP Brazil Exchange—an exchange program with the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina—taking students to Rio and Florianópolis each summer to do theatre work inside prisons, hospitals, and favelas.

Efrén Paredes

Is a journalist, thought leader, and social justice changemaker who has been incarcerated in Michigan 31 years. He has spoken at events on university campuses around the nation via phone and frequently appears on TV/radio/podcasts discussing criminal justice issues, Black and Latinx Studies, and conflict resolution. His social justice writings are also featured on various websites and blogs. To learn more about Efrén visit http://fb.com/Free.Efren.

Citas

Bates, Patrick, and Cozine Welch. Interviewed by Ashley Lucas. Personal Interview. Digital. June 18, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEZqKs7keU.

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Ferrell, Ricardo. Email to Alexandra Friedman, Ann Arbor, MI, August 10, 2020.

Jones, Quentin. Email to Alexandra Friedman, Ann Arbor, MI, August 10, 2020.

Price, Joshua. Prison and Social Death. Critical Issues in Crime and Society. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2015. Accessed August 15, 2020. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/10.36019/9780813565590, p. 115.

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Ruud, Marianne Teresa. “MYLIFEMATTERSTOO.” Email, 2020.

Wacquant, Loïc. "Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony." Dialectical Anthropology 34, no. 4 (2010): 605-20. Accessed August 28, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29790988, p. 614.

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Publicado

2020-12-23

Cómo citar

FRIEDMAN, Alexandra; LUCAS, Ashley; PAREDES, Efrén. Prisiones y activismo en la pandemia: cómo los supervivientes del encarcelamiento cambian lo que significa la participación cívica. Urdimento, Florianópolis, v. 3, n. 39, p. 1–22, 2020. DOI: 10.5965/14145731033920200103. Disponível em: https://periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/18989. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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