ISBN:
9781137510679
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Ethics
;
Social service
;
Social Sciences
;
Social sciences Philosophy
;
Criminology
;
Corrections
;
Punishment
;
Sociology
;
Welfare state.
;
France—History.
;
Social sciences
;
Ethics
;
Social sciences Philosophy
;
Criminology
;
Corrections
;
Punishment
;
Sociology
;
Social service
Abstract:
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1057/9781137510679
URL:
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