Draw upon the lecture (in additional materials) and the other following materials from Module 1.3 to answer this question:
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O518i4eRpU
– https://www.kanopy.com/nipissingu/video/wildest-show-south-angola-prison-rodeo?frontend=kui
– “The Wildest Show in The South” by Jessica Adams (in additional materials)
With reference to one or two of the Angola Rodeo games, explain Jessica Adam’s claim that the prison rodeo is a spectacle through which “the criminalization of the prisoner body under duress” aims to
accomplish three things:
a. The disciplining / punishment of prisoner bodies (say how)
b. The demarcation of law/order from social disorder (say how)
c. The construction of tourist collective identity as free/consumer (say how).
Explain why the prison rodeo as spectacle actually fails to accomplish the above three goals. What does Adams’ conclude about how power operates at this site?
