Trans architecture and the prison as archive: 'don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested'
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Article Title | Trans architecture and the prison as archive: 'don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested' |
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ERA Journal ID | 35368 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Sanders, Tait (Author), Gildersleeve, Jessica (Author), Halliwell, Sherree (Author), du Plessis, Carol (Author), Clark, Kirsty A. (Author), Hughto, Jaclyn M. W. (Author), Mullens, Amy B. (Author), Phillips, Tania M. (Author), Daken, Kirstie (Author) and Bromdal, Annette (Author) |
Journal Title | Punishment and Society: the international journal of penology |
Number of Pages | 24 |
Year | 2023 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1462-4745 |
1741-3095 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221087058 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14624745221087058 |
Abstract | Most incarceration settings around the world are governed by strong cisnormative policies, architectures, and social expectations that segregate according to a person's legal gender (i.e. male or female). This paper draws on the lived experiences of 24 formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the U.S. to elucidate the way in which the prison functions according to Lucas Crawford's theory of trans architecture, alongside Jacques Derrida's notion of archive fever. The paper displays how the cisnormative archive of the justice system and its architectural constructs impact trans women in men's incarceration settings, including how trans women entering the incarceration setting are able to embody gender in a way that is not reified by the insistences of those normative structures. In light of this, this paper advances a theoretical understanding of the prison as an archive and as an architectural construct, providing a new means of understanding how incarcerated trans persons may use and perform gender to survive carceral violence. |
Keywords | trans women, incarceration, prison, archive fever, trans architecture |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 420602. Health equity |
440202. Correctional theory, offender treatment and rehabilitation | |
440209. Gender and crime | |
440508. Transgender studies | |
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Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | School of Psychology and Counselling |
School of Humanities and Communication | |
School of Humanities and Communication | |
Centre for Health Research | |
Institute for Resilient Regions | |
Vanderbilt University, United States | |
Brown University, United States | |
School of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q72q2/trans-architecture-and-the-prison-as-archive-don-t-be-a-queen-and-you-won-t-be-arrested
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