Publication in confined environments: meanings and questions about in-prison publishing

Abstract

Editorial practice as the work of promoting the voices of others acquires a particular meaning in confined environments, where people are silenced and narrated about through discourses from others, especially the press and the punitive system that condemns them. In this context, proposing instances of production and publication of the inmates’ own discourse allows for spaces for reflection and action around the enunciating and subjective position disputed by the meanings imposed from the outside. Based on the experience developed by the Taller Colectivo de Edición (Collective Editing Workshop) in federal prisons in Argentina for over ten years, we propose some guidelines that guide our work as part of a political-pedagogical project as we raise a number  of questions regarding aspects of the intramural publishing practice.