Abstract

MANCHADO, Mauricio. Adaptation, Resistances, and Identity of Penitentiary Officers in Argentina Pavilion-Churches. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.246-269.  Epub Feb 26, 2021. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n34.12.

This article aims mainly to inquire on the mechanisms of adaptation and resistance deployed by penitentiary officers charged with the custody of church-pavilions in jails across southern Santa Fe province (Argentina), by examining their perceptions, appraisals, and actions in interactive processes with those who dwell on the so-called “church-pavilions”. Likewise, we aim to depict the self-perceptions made by guards about their roles in such a prison scheme, in order to understand their identitarian settings. These resistances emerge as differentiation practices based on a negative characterization of alterity (convicts-little brothers), and in the weaving of relations and reciprocities that the Pentecostal-evangelical religious device was able to build in prison. To that end, we will perform an analysis of empirical data from field work, based on participating observation and in-depth interviews with penitentiary officers and prisoners from three jails in Santa Fe South.

Keywords : jail; religion; resistances; identity; governmentality..

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