Introduction. Recursive Composition. The Entanglement of Structure and Agency in a Confining World; Prelude. Out of Words;
1. Metamorphosis of the agency/structure debate;
2. Rethinking Structures and Agencies as Literature;
3. The expansion and multiplication of prisoner governance schemes in Latin American prisons. Towards an explanation;
4. Ghosts in the machine? Applying sonic theory to structure and agency;
5. Prison, Home, Garden: Carceral Idylls and (Re)Thinking Detention in Robert Glas’ Justice Beyond Revenge. Recalling Louk Hulsman (2024);
6. Negotiating power: structure and agency in Nepalese prisons’ system of inmate co-governance;
7. Neither rebels, nor ‘good boys.’ Anticipation Games, Professional Ethics and Prosecutorial Discretion in West Africa’s Special Courts;
8. Engaging the Prison as Intention, Effect, and Function. On the Incommensurability and Ethics of Prison Research;
9. Adding volume and technological flesh to the Mediterranean border zone: The Space-Eye-project as gateway to EU aerial surveillance infrastructures;
10. Dreams and aspirations at the calisthenics court: differentiating agency from ideology with young adults in Amsterdam’s Bijlmer district; Epilogue 1: Agency and Confined Lives; Epilogue 2: Thoughts on Something-to-be-done: Embracing the Otherwise Toward Abolitionist Futures