ABSTRACT
From the experience of two imprisoned people in a female penitentiary in São Paulo, this text reflects on the means of producing territories and existence conditions in their daily life. The creative and tactical ways of adapting the environments in order to make them home, so as the support networks, favors and affections woven over years are juxtaposed with the forms of domination and institutional attempts to annul the imprisoned subject. In extreme situations, the body becomes the resistance’s last territory, from which escape routes are put in movement for producing war machines against the State, in order to make life possible. Through narratives that allow us to see different ways of producing territories for liveable life, I seek to discuss the boundaries between subjugation, resistance and creation in daily life of a prison.
KEYWORDS:
Prison; territory; tactics; resistance; daily life