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Based on analysis of interviews with prisoners and prison staff in Ghanaian prisons. This paper steers carceral geographers and others to consider religious understandings of temporality that are in a sense ‘outside time’ and their role in shaping the chronoscapes - understandings of present, past, and future - that inmates and prison staff situate themselves within. Religious transformation is a key basis of prisoner reform in Ghanaian prisons. Religious transformation, in this context dominantly Christian Pentecostal, was productive of understandings of temporality that were non-linear and indeed often plural. Pentecostalism is particularly focused on conversation and the rebirth of adherents and has therefore been seen to have a particular temporarality of rupture, but the chronoscapes that emerge are often more complex than a singular temporal break. If we are to fully understand the temporalities of prisons, and indeed the carceral more broadly, religion in prisons cannot be reduced solely to either a form of discipline or a coping strategy. The paper develops and deepens insights about time in carceral geographies, in particular highlighting how engagements with time are also about engagements with the timeless – with the outside of time.
Author(s): Routley L
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Political Geography
Year: 2023
Volume: 106
Print publication date: 24/10/2023
Online publication date: 19/08/2023
Acceptance date: 28/07/2023
Date deposited: 11/08/2023
ISSN (print): 0962-6298
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5096
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102955
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102955
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/zwdp-ay39
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