Building community ties in prison: when conflict drives and the party enshrines

Abstract

Starting from developing extension projects in the prisons of Paraná (Entre Ríos) in a sustained way for 15 years, we propose to analyze, from the ethnographic approach, the features that community ties acquire and the possibilities of building a community within the framework of a communication workshop from the perspective of Community Communication, in a male penal unit.
Three scenes that we will show through ethnographic records of the processes will allow us to problematize the ways in which the common appears, "is being", vanishes and reinvents itself in the harshness of forced coexistence, confinement and the absence of affection that means being imprisoned . Under these conditions we ask ourselves: When does the common begin to come into play? What strategies do we give ourselves as university students to facilitate collaborative work proposals and that start from making together? At what point does the community begin to take place and what happens when that common–union is threatened or endangered?
These reflections are part of the results of a research project in which, from Área de Comunicación Comunitaria of Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, we inquired into the meanings generated in the community communication practices that we promote from University.