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Prison in Peru

Ethnographic, Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives

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Authors:
  1. Lucia Bracco Bruce

    1. Grupo de Investigación en Psicología Forense y Penitenciaria, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru

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  • Includes unique ethnographic data from the Global South to fill a gap where men's prisons are the focus
  • Addresses contemporary issues of reflexive ethnography
  • Engages with debates on governmentality and women’s agency within the penal context

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 1-32

  3. Coloniality of Power and Coloniality of Knowledge: Prisons in Peru as Post-colonial and Patriarchal Institutions

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 33-71

  4. Decolonising and De-patriarchalising Analyses of the Prison in the Global South

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 73-114

  5. The Macro-Political Dimension of Santa Monica: Intertwined Co-governance, Interlegality and Prisoner-Delegates

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 115-160

  6. Santa Monica’s Meso-Social Dimension: Religious Performances, and Formal and Informal-Legitimised Labour

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 161-197

  7. Santa Monica’s Micro-Intersubjective Dimension: Interpersonal Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 199-258

  8. Conclusions

    • Lucia Bracco Bruce
    Pages 259-270

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 271-298
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About this book

This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women’s prison in Lima, Peru. Using feminist and decolonial perspectives, it explores power and the governance system and its implications on how the prison operates and the lived experiences of women prisoners and their interpersonal relationships. It reflects on the intersection of prison, imprisonment and gender from a Global South perspective and includes methodological reflections on how to research prisons in the Global South holistically. It fills a gap and engages with debates on governmentality and women’s agency within the penal context.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Grupo de Investigación en Psicología Forense y Penitenciaria, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru

    Lucia Bracco Bruce

About the author

Lucia Bracco Bruce​ completed her PhD in 2020 on Women and Gender studies from the Department of Sociology of the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. She has a degree in Clinical Psychology and a master's degree in Gender Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP). 

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