Body as a Project: The Relationship Czech Prisoners Have to Their Bodies

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Body as a Project: The Relationship Czech Prisoners Have to Their Bodies

Original language description

The text focuses on the relationship inmates have to their bodies during imprisonment. The data presented in this study are based on ethnographic research carried out in Czech men&apos;s high security prisons. The data set consists of interviews with partakers from the “world of prisoners”, observations from prisons and analysis of documents relating to Czech prison service. The analysis shows there is a strong relationship between the physical body and the process of constructing manhood/masculinity in the population of inmates. The physical body is one of crucial components of the masculine/macho prison code/culture. The attitude inmates have to their bodies seems to be altering, depending on the stage of imprisonment in which they currently are. For the description of this alteration I use the concept of the body as a project, which may serve as one of the possible ways of understanding the importance of the physical body to inmates during their imprisonment and changing motivations to its further development.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SOCIOLOGIA

ISSN

0049-1225

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

636-656

UT code for WoS article

000417625000002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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