Abstract
This work, based on ethnographic research conducted over the last 15 years, explores the circulations and confinements to which certain populations of the city are subjected, highlighting connections and resonances between institutional spaces and certain urban areas of São Paulo. By mobilizing fragments of lifelines moving through child-care institutions, prisons, adolescent inpatient units, Psychosocial Care Centers, judicial asylums, areas such as the so-called Cracolândia (Crackland), among a multitude of other facilities and urban spaces, what emerges on the horizon is the image of the archipelago, where prison is just one of its many islands – open, porous and resonant.
Archipelago; Prison; Porosity; State; São Paulo