The porosities of the prison through online-offline networks and the production of sociotechnical spaces of affectivities.

• Grant number: 24/22654-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: September 18, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Natália Corazza Padovani
• Grantee: Alana Barros Santos
• Supervisor: Manuela Ivone Paredes Pereira da Cunha
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade do Minho (UMinho), Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/13466-4 - Affective wefts and solidarity networks between the frontiers of the women's penitentiary of Alagoas, BP.DR

Abstract

The proposed Research Internship Abroad is connected to the ongoing doctoral research titled: Affective Networks and Solidarity Circuits at the Boundaries of the Women's Penitentiary of Alagoas, which aims to analyze the relationships between incarcerated individuals at the Santa Luzia Women's Penitentiary in Alagoas and their families, based on both online and offline interactions. The analytical focus is on the relationships among individuals who weave networks of organization, solidarity, and struggles for rights at the intersection of family relations and those formed through incarceration. This analytical perspective on women's imprisonment is framed by contemporary studies on gender, prisons, and affectivity. The goal of the internship in Portugal is to analyze the field data collected over the past three years, aiming to understand how solidarity networks, exchanges of information and objects, and affective bonds are formed. These bonds connect the trajectories of incarceration and decarceration between incarcerated people and their families, materializing the permeability of prison borders through a continuum of online and offline interactions. I aim to highlight the creation of socio-technical spaces of affectivity produced in the intense relationship between home, street, and prison. In addition to the theoretical deepening of the issues central to this thesis, I intend to present the research development in international seminars and conferences. The co-supervision with Professor Manuela Ivone Cunha will enable a deeper exploration of the issues surrounding *contemporary prison circuits*, which connect both the inner and outer worlds of the prison. These perspectives have reshaped the understanding of prison experiences in territorial, bodily, and sensory dimensions, influencing how we reflect on the experience of incarceration, its temporalities, and enhancing our comprehension of the social and symbolic permeability of the prison experience.