eprintid: 10045837 rev_number: 37 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/04/58/37 datestamp: 2018-03-27 15:08:39 lastmod: 2021-07-27 15:47:12 status_changed: 2018-03-27 15:08:39 type: article metadata_visibility: show 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 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045837/1/Richardson_Planning_working_futures.pdf