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Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of "bad girls" and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic understandings of the world of prisons. Focusing primarily on the UK and using examples from pop cultures, the book identifies how and why prison functions as a fixed field and postulates new ways of viewing performances in and of prison that trouble the institution. A new contribution to the fields of feminist cultural criticism and prison studies, Aylwyn Walsh explores how the development of a theory of resistance and desire is central to the understanding of women's incarceration. It problematizes the prevalence of purely literary analysis or case studies that proffer particular models of arts practice as transformative of offending behavior

This is a performance of statements/records/made up lies.We collected testimonies that spoke of some of the violences that we are facing—from Greece and Turkey—but these glimpses of frustration, bruising, broken dreams are evident everywhere, with different masks and excuses: "neoliberalism"/"extremism"/"unionism." All have the common suggestion: that this is how we play the game.The mediated moral panic about urban insurrections demonstrates how insidious representations of violence are at once everyday and ideologically driven. This text of a performance lecture offers an intimate, embodied consideration of the problem of violence and its representations. The texts from each city (Athens and Istanbul) became scripts for presenting and representing the ways public and private, nation and terror, Self and Other are negotiated. We investigated the nature of violence in protests in both cities with the aim of presenting the findings through performance.