Lexington Books
Pages: 138
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-7308-5 • Hardback • February 2018 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-4985-7310-8 • Paperback • August 2020 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-4985-7309-2 • eBook • February 2018 • $36.00 • (£28.00)
Salvador Jimenez Murguía is professor of sociology at Akita International University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Food as a Mechanism of Control
2. Quality Control
3. Quantity Control
4. Food as a Mechanism of Resistance
5. Bricolage
6. Survival
7. Pleasure
Conclusion
Bibliography
This book represents an important first step to begin the necessary conversation about what rights we should view as fundamental. Murguia packs a lot in these pages; exposing the methods of control from the perspective of both corrections officials and inmates.
— Teresa Dalton, University of California, Irvine