‘Here People Sign Anything’: The Importance of the Legal Literacy Workshop in a Prison in the Province of Buenos Aires

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15n2.42051

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correctional education, criminal law, learnings, justice, ethnography

Abstract

This paper describes and analyzes a legal literacy experience carried out by alphabetizers prisoners who selected judicial writings as useful knowledge in the prison context. Through an ethnographic approach, I intend to show what were the urgencies to propose this content, how it was presented and what was its reception by the students. Reflective social relationships and formative experiences were promoted in the workshop that, even without succeeding in subverting the power asymmetries that characterize the Penal System, allowed them to resist their violence.

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Camila Pérez, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina

Bolsista de pós-doutorado do Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas Científicas e Técnicas da Argentina (Conicet) da Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Unsam, Buenos Aires, Argentina) e da Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales (Idaes, Buenos Aires, Argentina). É professora do ensino secundário e superior em ciências antropológicas da Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina). Tem doutorado em educação pelo Programa Interuniversitário (Pide) da Unsam, pela Universidade Nacional Tres de Febrero (Untref, Buenos Aires, Argentina) e pela Universidade Nacional Lanús (Unla, Buenos Aires, Argentina).

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2022-05-09

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): MAI/JUN/JUL/AGO

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