Advocacy, Activism, and Performance

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This panel includes qualitative research on themes of activism, advocacy, and performance in the punishment context. Presentations focus on insider advocacy, theater performances by formerly incarcerated people, and prison newspaper cartoons. Together, they reveal the many creative ways in which system-impacted people negotiate and challenge public perceptions about them and their experiences.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 54. Prisoner Experiences with the Justice System

Individual Presentations

• Before Abolition: Inside-led Activism to Reform Perpetual Confinement - Clayton Drummond, Western Carolina University

• “A chance to just be human:” Reintegrative Shaming & the Performer-audience Relationship - Victoria Inzana, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• The power of images: Exploring the pains of imprisonment and incarcerated individuals’ agency using prison cartoons - Arden Richards-Karamarkovich, George Mason University; Janani Umamaheswar, George Mason University; Robert J. Norris, George Mason University

Discussant

• Janani Umamaheswar, George Mason University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Co-sponsored by the Division on Corrections and Sentencing and the Division of Qualitative Research.