What is it about?
This text is about reconsidering Foucault's theory about prison in the light of the recent "mobility turn". The mobilitarian ideology, praising mobility for itself, has deeply modified the way prison is legitimized nowadays.
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Why is it important?
This text makes the junction between classical prison theories and contemporary mobility studies and shows how mobility is used to legitimize institutions, even prison.
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This page is a summary of: Prison and (Im)mobility. What about Foucault?, Mobilities, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961258.
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