Constitution of agency in a Danish prison choir
EN ANALYSE AF AGENS OG UNDERKASTELSE I FANGEKORET
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/pl.v46i1.157779Keywords:
resocialization, prison, agency, aesthetic communities, utopia, subjectivity, powerAbstract
Fangekoret (The Prison Choir) is an idiosyncratic community of prisoners and ex-prisoners in Danish prisons. Despite criminal policy trends of harsher and longer sentences, the common discourse about Fangekoret is that it resocialises its participants and is, therefore, a positive initiative. The purpose of this article is to illuminate the possibility of establishing a prison community of practice whose purpose is not resocialisation but rather the formation of its participants as agentic subjects. To elucidate this, we use
theoretical analysis and interviews within a utopian methodological framework. We begin by using German-Nordic Critical Psychology’s concept of practice in the work of Ole Dreier and Klaus Holzkamp, among others, to understand how participation in Fangekoret changes the way the choir singers can participate in prison and community life during and after serving their sentence. We then critically analyse Fangekoret as an initiative through the critique of ideology and power as proposed by Louis Althusser and
Michel Foucault. Finally, we conclude that Fangekoret, paradoxically, can increase the agency of its participants through their submission to a general sociality in a collective, aesthetic practice.
References
Abrahamsen, S. & Sindberg, M. (2017, 9. marts). Søren Pape: “Vi er så bange for at komme til at være for hårde i det her samfund”. Information. https://www.information.dk/indland/2017/03/soeren-pape-saa-bange-komme-vaerehaarde-samfund
Althusser, L. (2016). Louis Althussers ideologi og ideologiske statsapparater (A.B. Holm, red). Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag.
Bank, M. & Nissen, M. (2022). Aesthetic motifs and the materiality of motives. Theory & Psychology, 32(6), 848-867. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543221119207
Bloch, E. (1982). Anticiperet realitet: Hvad er utopisk tænkning, og hvad kan den? I: J.E. Andersen, N.K. Nielsen, P. Stounbjerg & H.J. Thomsen (red.), Ernst Bloch – En introduktion (s. 25-36). Modtryk.
Coutinho, B.V., Hansen, A.L., Waage, L., Hillecke, T.K. & Koenig, J. (2015). Music making interventions with adults in the forensic setting – a systematic review of the literature – part I: group interventions. Music and Medicine, 7(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v7i3.409
Dreier, O. (1993). Psykosocial behandling – en teori om et praksisområde. Dansk Psykologisk Forlag.
Dreier, O. (1999). Personal trajectories of participation across contexts of social practice. Outlines: Critical Social Studies, 1(1), 5-32.
Dreier, O. (2011). Personality and the conduct of everyday life. Nordic Psychology, 63(2), 3-24.
Fangekoret fra Vridsløselille (2015). Be’ om hjælp på Egon Olsens Vej. Fangekoret.
Foucault, M. (1982). The subject and power. Critical Inquiry, 8(4), 777-795.
Foucault, M. (1994). Seksualitetens historie. Det lille Forlag.
Foucault, M. (1999). Overvåkning og straff: det moderne fengsels historie (3. udgave). Gyldendal Norsk Forlag.
Fængsel. (u.å.). Kriminalforsorgen. Hentet 26. marts 2024 fra: https://kriminalforsorgen. dk/straf/faengsel/
Gram, S. (2006). De dømtes sang. Jyllands-Posten. https://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/article3855014.ece
Hammerlin, Y. (2015). Et fengsel er et fengsel, men … Psyke & Logos, 36(1), 129-152.
Hamre, B. (2015). Goffmans totalinstitutionen set i en dispositivoptik. Psyke & Logos, 36(1), 12-27.
Hansen, A.B. (2004). Fangekorets forbryderalbum. Kristeligt Dagblad. https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/kultur/fangekorets-forbryderalbum
Haug, F. (1981). Dialektisk teori og empirisk metodik. Udnyttelsen af data. Udkast, 9(1), 8-40.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1968). Philosophy of right. Oxford University Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (2005). Åndens fænomenologi. Gyldendal.
Holzkamp, K. (1982). Daglig livsførelse som subjektvidenskabeligt grundkoncept. Nordiske udkast, 2, 89-117.
Holzkamp, K. (2013). What could a psychology from the standpoint of the subject be? I: E. Schraube & U. Osterkamp (red.), Psychology from the standpoint of the subject: selected writings of Klaus Holzkamp. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296436
Hybholt, L. (2015). Routines and concerns in the conduct of everyday life. Outlines, 16(2), 88-102. https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v16i2.22996
Højrup, T. (2002). Dannelsens dialektik. Museum Tusculanums Forlag.
Ievins, A. & Mjåland, K. (2021). Authoritarian exclusion and laissez-faire inclusion: comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway. Criminology (Beverly Hills), 59(3), 454-479. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12276
Im, V. & Pinto, R.M. (2023). Music and well-being in carceral settings: a scoping review. Arts & Health, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2023.2251513
Kant, I. (2017). Grundlæggelse af sædernes metafysik (2. udgave, 8. oplag). Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Keis, M.K., Nielsen, A.N. & Nissen, M. (2016). User driven standards in a mutual help context – the co-emergence of subjects and standards. Theory & Psychology, 26(2), 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354316637982
Laursen, J. (2015). “Man begynder jo ikke at smadre en købmand”: Perspektiver på vold i vredeskontrolprogrammet “Anger Management”. Tidskriftet Antropologi, 2015(71), 69-90. https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskriftetantropologi/article/download/107065/156627/220491
Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815355
McGowan, T. (2021). Superego and the law. I: Y. Stavrakakis, S. Frosh, L. Layton & D. Nobus (red.), Routledge handbook of psychoanalytic political theory (s. 139-150). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Michael, M. (2016). Notes toward a speculative methodology of everyday life. Qualitative Research, 16(6), 646-660.
Mik-Meyer, N. & Järvinen, M. (2003). At skabe en klient: institutionelle identiteter i socialt arbejde. Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Minke, L.K. (2018). Strafomfanget i Danmark – med særlig fokus på fængselsstraf. Samfundsøkonomen, 2018(4). https://doi.org/10.7146/samfundsokonomen.v2018i4.140630
Nielsen, A.M. & Mathiassen, C. (2015). Socialpsykologiske refleksioner over et regelrandzonefelt. Psyke & Logos, 36(1), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.7146/pl.v36i1.22840
Nissen, M. (2002a). Det kritiske subjekt. Psyke & Logos, 23, 65-85. https://doi.org/10.7146/pl.v23i1.8576
Nissen, M. (2002b). Straf eller magt? En social kritik af ungdomssanktionen. Nordiske Udkast, 30(1), 36-58.
Nissen, M. (2004). Communities og interpellerende fællesskaber. I: P. Berliner (red.), Community psykologi (s. 95-122). Frydenlund Academic.
Nissen, M. (2009). Objectification and prototype. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 6(1), 67-87.
Nissen, M. (2015). Meeting youth in movement and on neutral ground. Dialogic Pedagogy. An International Online Journal, 3, 19-42.
Nissen, M. (2023). Rearticulating motives. Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43494-5
Nissen, M. & Friis, T. (2020). Recognizing motives: the dissensual self. Outlines, 21(2), 89-135. https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/122692
Nissen, M., Vitus, K., Jefferson, A. & Ingholt, L. (2014). Utopiarbejde – udkast til en forskningsmetode. I: K.P. Munk, J.E. Møller & S. Bengtsen (red.), Metodefetichisme. Kvalitativ metode på afveje? (s. 145-173). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Petersen, K.F. & Olsen, A.M. (Instruktører) (2012). Fangekoret [Dokumentarfilm]. Sfinx Film/TV. https://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/fangekoret#Grundoplysninger
Rajala, A., Cole, M. & Esteban-Guitart, M. (2023). Utopian methodology: researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 32(1), 110-136.
Rancière, J. (2014). The emancipated spectator. Verso Books.
Roald, T., Køppe, S., Bechmann Jensen, T., Moeskjær Hansen, J. & Levin, K. (2021). Why do we always generalize in qualitative methods? Qualitative Psychology, 8(1), 69-81. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000138
Schwartz, I. & Nissen, M. (2023). Det fælles tredje i Fællesskabende praksisser (s. 31-58). Frydenlund Academic.
Storgaard, A. (2020). Prison leave in Denmark: how a tradition of combining rehabilitation with discipline developed into putting access to justice at risk. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 26(2), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09436-5
Søndergaard, D.M. & Rabøl Hansen, H. (2018). Bullying, social exclusion anxiety and longing for belonging. Nordic Studies in Education, 38(4), 319-336.
Valverde, M. (1998). Diseases of the will. Alcohol and the dilemmas of freedom. Cambridge University Press.
Žižek, S. (2010). Ideologiens sublime objekt. Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Ophavsret er tidsskriftets og forfatternes. Det er gældende praksis, at artikler publiceret i Psyke & Logos, som efterfølgende oversættes til andet sprog, af forfatteren frit kan publiceres i internationale tidsskrifter, dog således at det ved reference fremgår, at den oversatte artikel har et forlæg i en dansksproget version i Psyke & Logos. Artikler kan frit deles og linkes til på forsknings- og undervisningsnetværk (så som Blackboard). Link foretrækkes, fordi det giver oplysning om brug af tidsskriftets artikler.
