Embodied State

Ana Aliverti is Professor of Law at University of Warwick’s Law School. Her research work looks at the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, and explores the impact of such intertwining on criminal justice institutions and on those subject to the resulting set of controls. She has conducted extensive ethnographic work on the police and immigration enforcement, courts and asylum.Henrique Carvalho is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies at the University of Warwick. His work investigates issues in criminalisation, punishment, state power and justice through dialogues between legal, social, political and cultural theory. Henrique is the co-author of Questioning Punishment (Routledge, 2024).Anastasia Chamberlen is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. Her research explores the relations between punishment, embodiment, arts and justice. Anastasia is the co-author of Questioning Punishment (Routledge, 2024).Simon Tawfic is LSE Fellow in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in anthropology (2023) from the London School of Economics, having previously completed the joint honours BA in Anthropology and Law there (2017, First Class). Simon was a postdoctoral research fellow on the Vulnerable State project. His research interests include vulnerability, moral labour on the frontline and the everyday politics of care.

• Introduction Part 1: Representing the State, Mobilising Affect 1. The Bastille and the French Revolution: Reading an Icon 2. Political Affects and Embodied States : A Psychoanalytic framework for theorising the embodiment of state power by state representatives 3. Postracial sentimentality and the validation of state racism Part 2: Producing the State Through Emotionalised Governance 4. Manufacturing informants: The emotion work of the Prevent Duty training 5. Disgust and Punishment in Immigration Detention 6. State Violence and the Affective Capacity of an Inquest 7. Staging State Embodiment: Performativity, Emotional Labor, and Recalibrating Dynamic Security in a Philippine City Jail 8. Premature Revenge: Feud Law Among Prospective Police Recruits in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Part 3: Shifting Emotional Economies of State Power 9. The emotional landscape of prison managerialism 10. Relational aspects of prison work and institutional change: reflections on Uruguay’s prison reform 11. The Affective Turn in Criminal Process: Stakeholders’ Emotional Labour in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Part 4: Unsettling Institutionalised Emotions 12. Disgust at the Border: Border work as dirty work 13. Creative emotions: The governance of vulnerability and the caring ambivalence of arts therapeutic work in prisons 14. Institutionalized helper interactions and structurally embedded emotions; welfare assistance as a social form 15. Beyond the courtroom: emotions, affects and embodied senses of justice in ground-level interventions in the judicialisation of an environmental disaster 16. In Search of Institutional Affect in Sierra Leone’s Prisons Part 5: Navigating Dilemmas of Care and Control 17. Governing through fear: Affective ambivalences and violence in police work 18. Embodying the state in probation practice: emotional labour and self-alienation 19. Circuits of outrage against and within the English state of homelessness 20. The Prison Reformer’s Dilemma: Ambivalence, Blocked Trinity and the Failure of Integration 21. Emotional labour and feminisation of work: The case of a ‘spontaneous arrival’ at a refugee camp in Greece