Survival policies: the imperative to subsist in a university center in a prison in the province of Buenos Aires

Abstract

The daily development of activities in a University Center that is located within a prison is marked by the deployment of a variety of practices performed by the actors involved (students, teachers, agents) aimed at facilitating the articulation between some restrictive actions towards security and others that bid for the expansion of rights. This paper aims to present some aspects of the process of circulation of educational rights in confinement contexts: learning practices and since that, the agency of subsistence conditions.

Methodologically, we use ethnography, prioritizing the description and analysis of activities of imprisoned students and the meanings that they attributed to them.