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Thinking Allowed: Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels

29/05/2013

Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels

Laurie Taylor discusses life in the modern male prison. Also, jellied eels and 'disgust'.

Laurie Taylor discusses the lives of white and ethnic minority inmates in the modern male prison. Also, jellied eels and 'disgust' at a seafood stall.

The multicultural prison - a unique analysis of the daily lives and interactions of both white and ethnic minority inmates in the closed world of the modern, male prison. Diverse British nationals, foreign. and migrant populations, have been brought into close proximity within prison walls. How do they negotiate their tensions and differences? The criminologist, Coretta Phillips, talks to Laurie Taylor about her empirical research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone Prison.


Also, reactions to jellied eels. Drawing on a series of ethnographic encounters collected while hanging around at a seafood stand in east London, Alex Rhys Taylor explores the relationship between individual expressions of distaste and the production of class, ethnic and generational forms of distinction.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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