Abstract
dc:description.abstractCurrently, there are over 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States. The growing epidemic of the prison industrial complex creates a critical situation; performance studies offers significant ways to address the increasing problems of incarceration. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the intersection of academic literature connecting penal studies, food studies, and performance studies. I argue that an analysis of food as a performance medium serves as an alternative means for understanding how prisoners negotiate prison life. Food as a performance medium also exposes the operation of the prison industrial complex.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Only Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Speech Communication
- Year dc:date.available
- 2009
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Collins, Christopher
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Stucky, Nathan
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/92
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-1092