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Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons

Diets of Disrepute

Genres: Prisons
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, United States
Published: 23rd Feb 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 11mm
Weight: 365g
ISBN-10: 1498573088
ISBN-13: 9781498573085
Barcode No: 9781498573085
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Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and prison settings, food becomes both a mechanism of control and resistance. In the former, the type of food, its quality, its quantity, and the symbolic significance of its presence or absence all contribute to the socio-political experience of the incarcerated-perhaps even adding an extra form of punishment to one's sentence not measured in time, but rather in terms of cruelty. In the latter, the incarcerated may view the preparation of food, the innovation it may undergo, its consumption, or even the refusal of its consumption along these same socio-political lines. Thus viewing food within jail and prison as social facts that engender real consequences reveals a virtually uncharted area of research for understanding the intersection between food and life within the confines of incarceration. Of this line of inquiry, Murguia asks how food is employed as a means to control prisoners and, conversely, how do prisoners employ food in the service of resistance. As his analysis suggests, this text emphasizes a need to advance a broader discussion about the diets of prisoners.

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This book represents an important first step to begin the necessary conversation about what rights we should view as fundamental. Murguia packs a lot in these pages; exposing the methods of control from the perspective of both corrections officials and inmates. -- Teresa Dalton, University of California, Irvine