Everyday Life in a Prison: Confinement, Surveillance, Resistance [Jan 19, 2010] Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya

Based on intensive fieldwork in a central prison in kolkata, this book succinctly addresses issues in the sociology of institutions and organisations it demystifies the image of the prison as an presenting a close understanding of lives and practices within its four walls the book finds answers to such questions as: is the prison a negative space? does meaningful life cease to exist in a prison? are there aspects of life of which prisoners are unable to make sense? what does the construction of meaningful worlds mean for organisational practice and goals? how do everyday life, organisational practice and goals interact and what are the implications of this interaction for the nature of the organisation and the quality of prison life? the author thus constructs the prison as a space where inmates make meaningful social worlds that emerge out of despair marking a departure from the existing sociological studies on prisons in india, everyday life in a prison: confinement, surveillance, re