CIAO DATE: 9/07
Culture and Conflict
No. 55 - Fall 2004
Prisons And Political Resistance: The Roaring Of The Battle
The founding principle and rationale of imprisonment is the physical and symbolical confinement of the individual from ordinary social activity and public visibility. What space is there then left for political resistance in prisons? The possibility for collective action and movements is extremely limited and the latter’s actualisation is a threat to the penitentiary order. It has consequently to be crushed or silenced. But the universe of the prison is not immobile and cold. It is a space of perpetual tension in which multiple manoeuvres and transactions aim at maintaining the fragile balance between “war” and “peace”. This issue of Cultures & Conflits aims at discussing about the prison as one of these “other spaces”, of these heterotopias in the sense of Michel Foucault, and to analyse the struggles surrounding the prison as a particular scene of the political space. Drawing on a genealogical and hence a critical perspective, this issue analyses these struggles through a set of foreign and French cases that have marked the twentieth century. This will not only serve to uncover these specific moments of resistance as such, but also to analyse their diverse modalities of struggle, the multiplicity of battle instruments they have invented and the repertoire of action they have developed in each particular geographic and historical setting.
Prisons and Political Resistance, the Roaring of the Battle
Philippe Artieres, Pierre Lascoumes et Grégory SalleResisting prison through autobiography. Vera Finger and the tsarist prisons
Philippe Artieres et Denis DabbadieThe penitentiary word during Franco
Ricard VINYESPrison, where is your victory ?
Huey P. Newton, The Black Panther PartyPutting prison to the test. The GIP at war against the “intolerable”
Grégory Salle1974 : the Mirval “case”
François BoullantRevolutionary reclusion. The confrontation in prison between clandestine organizations and the state - Germany during the 1970s
Dominique LinhardtInterview with Paolo Persichetti
By Alain BrossatHORS-THEME: Nomadic wars. Seven approaches to conflict around the Ivory Coast
Michel Galy