Coercive institutions like prisons and detention centres are overlooked micro-publics of conviviality.
Evidence
Conviviality is typically researched in ‘“micro-publics” including workplace[s], schools, hospitals, colleges, youth centres, sports clubs and other contact zones of association including public transport’ (Back & Sinha, 2016, p. 524). But what about police stations and prisons? What about migrant detention centres? These too are micro-publics of a kind, where people share space, and where ‘prosaic negotiations with difference through intimate proximity take place and are often compulsory and necessary’ (Back & Sinha, 2016, p. 524). — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 15
Categorization
- DEFINE: Extends the technical term ‘micro-publics’ beyond its usual voluntary-contact settings to compulsory, coercive ones.
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 15
- XREF: connects to: Detention camps are designed to render inmates invisible and outside national community
Related
- Conviviality gains political urgency precisely where multicultural daily life is most constrained. (similarity 0.79)