The Adversities of anthropological ethnography in prison context

Authors

  • Italo Barbosa Lima Siqueira University of Ceará

Keywords:

Ethnography, Prison, Covid-19, Fieldwork

Abstract

The risk of biological contagion from the new coronavirus pandemic presented unforeseen challenges for fieldwork. This article is based on the reflections of my ethnographic field in the penitentiary system of Ceará, in Brazil, seeking to access the relationships and the effects of the growth of the penitentiary archipelago. One of the objectives is to contribute to comparative studies, considering that each federative unit presents substantial differences in the administrative procedures of its local prison system. The report was written due to the need to discuss the contexts of the prisons, but also to reflect on anthropological ethnography and the uncertainty about life and death in the face of suffocating realities.

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Author Biography

  • Italo Barbosa Lima Siqueira, University of Ceará

    PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the Federal Universit of Ceará, Brazil, and researcher in the Laboratory for Studies of Violence (University of Ceará, Brazil) and in the research group Ilhargas - City, Politics and Knowledge in the Amazon  (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)

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Published

2020-09-17

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Vol. 29 No. supl (2020)

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Siqueira, I. B. L. (2020). The Adversities of anthropological ethnography in prison context. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 29(supl), 302-309. https://revistas.usp.br/cadernosdecampo/article/view/170474

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