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| Id | 803 | |
| Author | Martin R.E., Korchinski M., Fels L., Leggo C. | |
| Title | Arresting hope: Women taking action in prison health inside out | |
| Reference | Martin R.E., Korchinski M., Fels L., Leggo C.; Arresting hope: Women taking action in prison health inside out ;Cogent Arts and Humanities vol:4.0 issue: 1 page: |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044530155&doi=10.1080%2f23311983.2017.1352156&partnerID=40&md5=ef63e4878759b617c971318be797dc4a |
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| Abstract | In 2014, we published the book Arresting Hope: Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out, which narrates a story about women in a provincial prison in Canada, about how creative leadership fostered opportunities for transformation and hope, and about how engaging in research and writing contributed to healing. Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma. They can also be places of hope, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation, communication, education, connection, and community. Since the publication of Arresting Hope, we have been engaged with further research, and we are now editing a second book tentatively titled Releasing Hope. We have been reflecting on our personal and professional commitments to research with women with incarceration experience, as well as the many ways that this research journey together as a collaborative team of four editors working with many others has informed and influenced our ways of being in the world. In this article, we offer four reflections on our collaboration as we continue to bring our academic and activist commitments together in order to promote education, awareness, and change. In our collaboration, we have discovered the value of researching, conceptualizing, and writing in creative ways in order to understand how the stories of individuals are always connected to social and institutional dynamics of policy and practice. © 2017 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. |
In 2,,4, we published the book Arresting Hope: Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out, which narrates a story about women in a provincial prison in Canada, about how creative leadership fostered opportunities for transformation and hope, and about how engaging in research and writing contributed to healing. In this article we offer four reflections on our collaboration as we continue to bring our academic and activist commitments together in order to promote education awareness and change. Women in prison considered this work meaningful and they convinced the warden that health research work should become a prison work placement position. Arresting Hope offers a com- pelling testimony to the power of stories for helping us make sense of our lives. Lynn recalls her first visit to Alouette Correctional Centre for Women as the beginning of a life-affirming story that arrested her and called her to attention: The journey of Arresting Hope through the years from the first time I walked through the prison gates to the editing of our book called me to attention tugs on the sleeve that revealed my fears of those who dwell outside my circle of familiarity my reluctance to get involved to be committed to become responsible.
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