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Careful control: The infrastructure of water in carceral space
Author(s) -
Turner Jennifer,
Moran Dominique
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12461
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , embodied cognition , control (management) , relation (database) , space (punctuation) , prison , sociology , through the lens metering , environmental planning , computer science , criminology , lens (geology) , environmental science , engineering , embedded system , operating system , petroleum engineering , database , artificial intelligence
This paper advances carceral geographies by situating water in relation to the nexus of care and control in the carceral setting. Critical for both hygiene and health, but also requiring control and management, consideration of water offers an analytical lens to uncover everyday, intimate and embodied institutional spaces of care and control mediated by water both in its elemental form, and via water infrastructures. Drawing on extensive qualitative data generated with serving prisoners in the UK , the paper considers carceral relationships with water as variously and simultaneously unruly, restrictive, health‐enabling and therapeutic.