{"id":5888,"date":"2025-05-21T09:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?page_id=5888"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:56:40","slug":"narratives-around-confinement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?page_id=5888","title":{"rendered":"Narratives around confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<nav class=\"is-responsive items-justified-center wp-block-navigation is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Main\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.openMenuOnClick\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"\n\t\t\t><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><rect x=\"4\" y=\"7.5\" width=\"16\" height=\"1.5\" \/><rect x=\"4\" y=\"15\" width=\"16\" height=\"1.5\" \/><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container\"  id=\"modal-1\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--has-modal-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--is-menu-open=\"state.isMenuOpen\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.initMenu\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleMenuKeydown\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on-async--focusout=\"actions.handleMenuFocusout\"\n\t\t\t\ttabindex=\"-1\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-close\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-dialog\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-modal=\"state.ariaModal\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.ariaLabel\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--role=\"state.roleAttribute\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button aria-label=\"Close menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-close\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.closeMenuOnClick\"\n\t\t\t><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"m13.06 12 6.47-6.47-1.06-1.06L12 10.94 5.53 4.47 4.47 5.53 10.94 12l-6.47 6.47 1.06 1.06L12 13.06l6.47 6.47 1.06-1.06L13.06 12Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-content\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.focusFirstElement\"\n\t\t\t id=\"modal-1-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container is-responsive items-justified-center wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?page_id=5888\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\"><strong>Narratives around confinement<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?page_id=5890\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\"><strong>Case studies<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/?page_id=5892\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\"><strong>Project structure<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Narratives around confinement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">CONFINED will develop and validate a global comparative research agenda on confined lives. We aim to expand how the concept of confinement is understood by focusing on the people most exposed to its harmful effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confinement is central to the human experience, it plays a role in all of our lives. Although we often associate confinement with coercion, control, and captivity, it also carries protective connotations: it both restrains and safeguards. Confinement has long been used as a public health measure in times of crisis, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic, plagues, and wars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This inherent contradiction of confinement as simultaneous threat and protection is central to our project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confinement is also a key strategy of governance, often implemented through coercive means and, at times, outright violence. Certain populations are identified as threats or risks, against whom others need to be protected \u2013 often those privileged by race, class, age, and gender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that swaths of the global population are harmed by confinement. <strong>These are the lives that CONFINED wants to study and make visible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"5873\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Steffen-pic-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Steffen-pic-3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Steffen-pic-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Steffen-pic-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Steffen-pic-3-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Steffen-pic-3.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"147\" data-id=\"5855\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Billede7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5855\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"5867\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While confinement has been around for centuries, it is becoming increasingly widespread and critical in the lives of millions across the globe. We see this in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The \u2018wars\u2019 on drugs, gangs, and crime, which have led to historically high incarceration rates;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Migration control strategies that transform entire nations into repositories for displaced people;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The growth of urban inequality, which increasingly confines people to ghettos, slums, and informal settlements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Social justice movements and academic research have documented and critiqued these developments, expanding the understanding of confinement beyond prisons or detention centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see examples of confined people in stories like Maria&#8217;s. Picture her as she has been stuck in a bus at a border post for several days. She is tired and worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png 674w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria is thinking about her baby brother, Rafi, who is in prison for dealing drugs. Maria worries about him a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png 725w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria\u2019s thoughts return to herself, and whether she will make it across the border, or if she will end up in a deportation center to be sent back to her grandmother, Anna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria imagines Anna outside the shack in the squatter camp, taking care of her and Rafi\u2019s children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1.png 803w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-768x545.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria, Rafi, and Anna are ideal types, of course, but they are types often present in fieldwork. It is their collective experiences and practices that have animated our vision and thinking about confined lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An important aspect of CONFINED is our focus not on individuals in isolation \u2013 such as prisoners, migrants, refugees or urban dwellers \u2013 but instead on translocal family networks. Our fieldwork reveals how families are simultaneously affected by incarceration, displacement, and urban marginalization. This approach allows us to trace the overlapping and intersecting forms of confinement that shape people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"147\" data-id=\"5857\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Billede6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5857\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"5866\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"155\" data-id=\"5859\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Billede2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5859\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The comparative design of CONFINED enables us to look at both shared patterns as well as context-specific variations in how confinement is produced and experienced. The interdisciplinary structure enables a reframing of confinement that transcends disciplinary silos, instead connecting prison, urban marginalization, and displacement studies through a focus on confined family networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONFINED offers to explore processes of confinement holistically across different fields and to understand how confined people resist, navigate, or endure confinement. This knowledge is indispensable if we want to imagine and contribute to a more just futures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"5864\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"296\" data-id=\"5858\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Billede8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Billede8.jpg 399w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Billede8-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" data-id=\"5865\" src=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-4-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-4-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-4-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/confined-erc.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Confined-4-2048x1535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Conceptually, the project innovates the <em>intersectional, relational, spatial, and temporal entanglements<\/em> of confinement. Empirically, it brings new insights through grounded, comparative research. And practically, it seeks to build a new, global language of confined lives\u2014developed with and for those who are most affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">This language is vital if we are to understand and address one of the most pervasive drivers of global injustice and state violence in the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narratives around confinement CONFINED will develop and validate a global comparative research agenda on confined lives. We aim to expand how the concept of confinement is understood by focusing on the people most exposed to its harmful effects. Confinement is central to the human experience, it plays a role in all of our lives. 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