Civil Society Organizations and Insurgent Citizenship in prison: A look beyond violence

This theoretical essay seeks to understand the dichotomy in current prison public policies regarding attempts to humanize prisons in subjugation to excessive control and surveillance. In addition to this pendulum swing in the prison system, it opens the debate on the insurgency for citizenship in Br...

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Autor: Campos, Fernandez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Conversas & Controvérsias
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/47097
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/conversasecontroversias/article/view/47097
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Civil Society Organizations
Insurgent Citizenship
Violence
Prison System
Organizações da Sociedade Civil
Cidadania Insurgente
Violência
Sistema Prisional
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Sumario:This theoretical essay seeks to understand the dichotomy in current prison public policies regarding attempts to humanize prisons in subjugation to excessive control and surveillance. In addition to this pendulum swing in the prison system, it opens the debate on the insurgency for citizenship in Brazilian prisons by presenting the concept of insurgent citizenship and how civil society, in an organized form, shows itself to have an important role in demanding rights for the population deprived of liberty. This article also aims to bring a multidisciplinary aspect to the field of Political Science on an approach that is not traditional in the area.