Revisitando Foucault e outros textos em questão penitenciária

O livro reúne textos teóricos e indicações de pesquisas empíricas capazes de produzir um diferente olhar sobre a Questão Penitenciária. Tensiona dimensões da trajetória punitiva brasileira e privilegia a proposição de instrumentais cognitivos embasados em diferentes referenciais teóricos: Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Edgar Morin, Giorgio Agamben.Re-examining the complexity evoked by the expression ‘the penitentiary question,’ I look to contributes to the development of approaches that favour confronting its contemporary paradoxes and new dimensions. Turning to the sociology of punishment, the political economy of penal systems, the analysis of discursive meanings and the paradigm of complexity, I take the penitentiary question to be a complex intersection between penal and social dimensions and policies in modern society. I propose a number of premises and strategic viewpoints in the endeavour to avoid the traps of a simplifying conceptualization of prison realities and/or tensions, seduced by a mythology of the ‘good prison’. ABSTRACT: Using criminal punishment system data and concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Giorgio Agamben, this text proposes the possibility to identify, in relation to our Penitentiary Question, a sui generis Field in the sense of Bourdieu, and a Concentration Camp, in the sense of Agamben. The intention is to contribute to the formation of theoretical tools to face the penitentiary question, overcoming epistemological obstacles and rhetorical and political subterfuges about the punishment system