Entangled Identities Inside and Outside: Exploring Cape Town Street Youth’s Interconnected Lives on the Street and in Prison

Lorraine van Blerk

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_2

Entangled Identities Inside and Outside: Exploring Cape Town Street Youth’s Interconnected Lives on the Street and in Prison

Lorraine van Blerk (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Carceral geographies have recently been concerned with moving beyond spaces of confinement. However, much of this work has tended to focus on understanding expressions of identity inside while neglecting the implications of the prison experience for identities on the outside. This chapter draws on in-depth narratives with Cape Town street youth, aged between 15 and 28, to explore how their lives are interwoven between the spaces of street and prison and exploring what this means for understanding their identities. The chapter concludes by showing that ‘street’ and ‘prison’ are intricately entangled, influencing identity practices and lived realities on the street.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Carceral Spatiality
Subtitle of host publication	Dialogues between Geography and Criminology
Editors	Dominique Moran, Anna K. Schliehe
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	2
Pages	13-42
Number of pages	30
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137560575
ISBN (Print)	9781137560568 (hbk), 9781349851188 (pbk)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_2
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Name	Palgrave Students in Prisons and Penology

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van Blerk, Lorraine
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van Blerk, L. (2017). Entangled Identities Inside and Outside: Exploring Cape Town Street Youth’s Interconnected Lives on the Street and in Prison. In D. Moran, & A. K. Schliehe (Eds.), Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology (1 ed., pp. 13-42). (Palgrave Students in Prisons and Penology). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_2

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van Blerk, L 2017, Entangled Identities Inside and Outside: Exploring Cape Town Street Youth’s Interconnected Lives on the Street and in Prison. in D Moran & AK Schliehe (eds), Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology. 1 edn, Palgrave Students in Prisons and Penology, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 13-42. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_2

Entangled Identities Inside and Outside: Exploring Cape Town Street Youth’s Interconnected Lives on the Street and in Prison. / van Blerk, Lorraine (Lead / Corresponding author).
Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology. ed. / Dominique Moran; Anna K. Schliehe. 1. ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 13-42 (Palgrave Students in Prisons and Penology).

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van Blerk L. Entangled Identities Inside and Outside: Exploring Cape Town Street Youth’s Interconnected Lives on the Street and in Prison. In Moran D, Schliehe AK, editors, Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology. 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. p. 13-42. (Palgrave Students in Prisons and Penology). Epub 2017 May 8. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_2

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