02886     2200265   4500001000600000011001400006100004100020101000800061102000700069110001600076200029400092210004400386215003700430300002300467326001500490330172800505461011002233463008102343700004702424801003802471801001402509830000802523856003202531856005702563104620 a2402-5895  a20230120a2015    m  y0frey50      ba0 aeng  aFR  amg|z|||||||1 aThe Funambulist N°52bNUMPfLéopold Lamberte Politics of Space and Bodies. e Politiques de l'espace et des corps. e Prison Uprisings.e Rebellions, No-Wash Protests, Hunger Strikes, and Spoon-Dug Tunnels in Kurdistan, Ireland, Chile, the US, Tunisia, France, Palestine, and Colombia.  aParis cThe FunambulistdMar–Apr 2024  cCouv.Ill.Coul. a80 p.d20 × 25  aTextes en anglais   aBimestriel  aWelcome to the 52nd issue of The Funambulist! This issue focuses on the many ways through which prisoners invest the full extent of the agency they have within the walls to organize, resist, revolt, conquer the prison, or escape from it. If we are to believe that this carceral power is one of the most ruthless forms of oppression, then liberation is never practiced as much as during prison uprisings.

This issue features articles about Kurdish women prisoners organizing in Turkish colonial prisons (Berivan Kutlay Sarikaya), the revolts in Colombian prisons during the Covid-19 pandemic (Alejandro Rodríguez Pabón), the escape of 49 Chilean political prisoners from Santiago’s Public Prison under Pinochet (Yasna Mussa), and an experience-based analysis of prisoners’ engagement with the carceral space-time in Tunisia and France (Meryem-Bahia Arfaoui).

Two long formats accommodate Orisanmi Burton‘s (with Millenials Are Killing Capitalism) in-depth description of the 1970-71 Long Attica Revolt in New York State, and a conversation between former Irish Republican political prisoners Síle Darragh and Laurence McKeown about the various forms of body resistance practiced in British prisons in 1980-81.

The cover artwork was commissioned to Lilia Benbelaïd. You can read Léopold Lambert’s full introduction to the issue here.

In the News from the Fronts section, you can read a short essay on Indigeneity and the State in Mexico (Elis Mendoza), a solidarity bridge between South Africa and Palestine through June Jordan’s poems (Amanda Joyce Hall), and a thesis architecture project on the influence of radios and magazines in the 1994 Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda (Patricia Mhoja Bandora).  aLéopold LambertcParis dN°1 (Septembre 2015)tThe Funambulistuhttps://thefunambulist.net/x2402-5895  aLéopold LambertcParis tThe Funambulistx2402-5895dMar–Apr 2024vN°52  4Rédacteur en chef  aLambertbLéopold  0aFRbFR-751131015c20230120gAFNOR 0aTNb32Bis  aABA4 uhttps://thefunambulist.net/4 uhttps://thefunambulist.net/magazine/prison-uprisings