#10090. The politics of prison air: Breath, smell, and wind in Myanmar prisons

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This article explores what air means and entails in penal settings and examines how carcerality attaches itself to air. With inspiration from social science approaches to the study of air, I propose that the lived experience of prison air can be fruitfully analyzed through the notions of breath, smell, and wind. This point is explored through two incidents about prison air drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. Together they illustrate a shift in Myanmar penality from a martial logic of destroying the enemy towards an internationally infused rationality of control and care.
Keywords:
air; breath; carcerality; Myanmar; prison research; smell; wind

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