ABSTRACT
We discuss the cultural politics of emotions in prison settings and link discussions of emotions to broader biopolitical implications of life for sex offenders in prisons in our final substantive chapter. Specifically, we analyze the cultural politics of emotions within carceral spaces and how sex offenders are constituted in prison culture as objects of fear and disgust. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed and her relational approach to emotions, we show how, through the circulation of affect, fear and disgust ‘stick’ to sex offenders.
