Carceral Arts

Anastasia Chamberlen is Professor of Sociology and Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Captive Arts research project, University of Warwick.Ruth Bernatek is Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Warwick and was previously Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Captive Arts project.

• 1. Introduction: Dialogues on Prison, the Arts and the Hope for Justice - Anastasia Chamberlen and Ruth BernatekPart I: Identity & The Creative Self2. In Conversation With Dalton Harrison (UK) - Ruth Bernatek, Anastasia Chamberlen and Dalton Harrison3. Nameless Not Shameless: International Visual Art Prison Collaborations and the Questions They Raise About Artist Anonymity - Faye Claridge4. Marks, Doodles, Care, and Agency: Fieldwork Fragments From an Emerging Study Into Self-Led Creativity and Wellbeing Inside Prison Cells - Andrea N. Hadley-Johnson5. Intersections on the Inside: Gender and Class in a Prison Art Studio in California, USA - Laura Pecenco6. Escaping the Frames: Aesthetic Practices in Search of Other Justices in Latin America - Cristiane Checchia and Mário René Rodríguez Torres7. Overcoming Dehumanization: Prison Arts and Future IDs As Rehumanization - Luis S. GarciaPart II: Representations & Methods8. In Conversation With Damien Linnane (Australia) - Ruth Bernatek, Anastasia Chamberlen and Damiaen Linnane9. A Prison, a Prisoner, and a Prison Guard: An Exploration of Carcerality in the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region - Susan Aboeid, Sumaya Tabbah and Supna10. Getting Out by Getting In: The Group as an Escape - Charlotte Weinberg11. Carceral Performance, Histories of Prison Arts, and Liberatory Memory Work in Rideout’s the Ballad of the Whistling Man - Sarah Bartley12. Definitive Practice: Promoting Infrastructures of Creative Rehabilitation in England - Sarah HartleyPart III: Work, Healing & Resistance13. In Conversation With Jess Collier (UK) - Anastasia Chamberlen and Jess Collier14. A Story of Creative Writing in Prisons: Working on Generative Justice - Ella Simpson15. Empowering Voices: Applied Puppetry as a Tool for Healing and Identity Mapping in Young Refugee Inmates in Greece - Magda Vitsou16. From ‘Crime Scene’ to ‘Music Scene’? Music Therapy in a Scandinavian Prison - Kjetil Hjørnevik17. Bodies, Resilience and Dance in French and Canadian Prisons - Sylvie Frigon and Claire Jenny18. Prison Writing and Critical Perspectives on Justice and Incarceration in Argentina - Juan Pablo Parchuc19. Epilogue: Who Am I Poem and Reflections from the Dispersed Collective

'This is a genuinely transdisciplinary collection that brings together a diversity of epistemological frameworks to discuss the relationship between imprisonment and creative expression.' Lucia Bracco Bruce, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru