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This chapter introduces the cell as a central component in carceral life and rationalises the focus upon embodied and everyday practices and processes emergent in this space throughout the edited collection. In interrogating the metaphorical links between the prison cell and biological cells (as well as the tensions of such a conceptualisation), the chapter provides a crucial introduction to the section framework—The Nucleus, Cytoplasm, and The Cell Membrane—and each chapter in turn. Finally, the chapter calls for further innovation in the conceptual, methodological and policy-relevant considerations of the cell in research on carceral space.
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The scope and geographical extent of the book has resulted in a variety of different terminology to describe the various spaces of, and individuals involved in, incarceration. We appreciate that these terms can often be interpreted differently depending on the disciplinary and geographical situation in which they are received but have retained the use of language common to the academic and social context from which the research emerges.
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Turner, J., Knight, V. (2020). Dissecting the Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration. In: Turner, J., Knight, V. (eds) The Prison Cell. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39911-5_1
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