eprintid: 10045837
rev_number: 37
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datestamp: 2018-03-27 15:08:39
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type: article
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creators_name: Richardson, L
creators_name: Thieme, TA
title: Planning working futures: precarious work through carceral space
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: Carceral space, flow, friction, planning work, precarity
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abstract: Geographies of precarious work are advanced through an eight month qualitative study of prisoners nearing release from HMP Brixton in London, providing a spatial rendering of working uncertainty. This builds on geographical scholarship highlighting the porosity of prison walls such that carceral space is understood as non-totalising yet extensive. Release on Temporary License (ROTL) is examined as a mechanism of such porosity, allowing offenders to undertake work outside prison. Within the context of the rehabilitation agenda in England and Wales that emphasises the generative function of prison time, we frame the ROTL as a flow mechanism that anticipates both the end of the custodial sentence and precarious work. Experiences of such precariousness emerge through prisoners’ processes of planning for future work through states of suspension, compulsion and experimentation. The focus on planning work contributes to understandings firstly of the porosity of carceral space and secondly of labour precarity. Firstly, it highlights the frictions in the flow mechanism of the ROTL, such that the porosity of carceral space cannot be understood as seamless mobility. Secondly, these frictions indicate how the structural condition of labour precarity can be lived through forms of mundane stability that might be generative as well as exhausting.
date: 2020-01-01
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1446216
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1542484
doi: 10.1080/14649365.2018.1446216
lyricists_name: Thieme, Tatiana
lyricists_id: TATHI15
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Social and Cultural Geography
volume: 21
number: 1
pagerange: 25-44
citation:        Richardson, L;    Thieme, TA;      (2020)    Planning working futures: precarious work through carceral space.                   Social and Cultural Geography , 21  (1)   pp. 25-44.    10.1080/14649365.2018.1446216 <https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1446216>.       Green open access   
 
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