Investigate and military against prisons

Methodological reflections to build ethnographic knowledge in confinement contexts

  • Camila Pérez Becaria IDAES/UNSAM
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/runa.v42i2.8499
Keywords: Ethnography;, Prisons;, Field work;, Writing, Militancy

Abstract

In 2015 I obtained a doctoral scholarship from CONICET to investigate a topic that interested me since my undergraduate training as an anthropologist: education in prisons. Due to multiple circumstances, it was only in 2017 that I was able to enter the field to document a literacy experience where students and teachers were imprisoned. In this article I am interested in reconstructing some central aspects of my research process, linked to fieldwork but also to writing the thesis, to understand the reasons that led me to postulate that, at the moment, I don´t wish to investigate in prisons again (under the same conditions), although I do feel committed to carrying out different militant work activities against them.

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Runa 42.2 (2021) Portada
Published
2021-07-30
How to Cite
Pérez, C. (2021). Investigate and military against prisons. RUNA, Archivo Para Las Ciencias Del Hombre, 42(2), 367-383. https://doi.org/10.34096/runa.v42i2.8499
Issue
Vol 42 No 2 (2021)
Section
Espacio Abierto - Artículos Originales

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