What does the reform do? How dungeon became prison

Abstract

The paper examines the meanings of the notion of reform. Is reform an act or a process; what is an object of reform and how is it performed; is the scope of its performance limited or does it permeate deeper social structures? The approach to reform in this paper is genealogical, through the analysis of the processes of institutionalisation of the prison in Great Britain in 18th and 19th centuries. Although the elaboration of these processes revolves around a particular era and place, this micro-sample gives rise to conclusions that surpass historically conditioned analysis. The aim of this paper is to show that reform has to be understood as an expression and effect of a profound transformation of the political, as well as the complex, multilateral and dispersive process which penetrates into and alters extant social relations. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179049: Politike društvenog pamćenja i nacionalnog identiteta: regionalni i evropski kontekst]

Tekst pre i spi tu je zna če nje poj ma re for me. Da li je re for ma čin ili pro ces; šta je objekt re for me i ka ko se ona iz vo di; da li je do met nje nog de lova nja ogra ni čen ili za hva ta du blje dru štve ne struk tu re? Poj mu re for me se pri la zi ge ne a lo ški, po sred stvom ana li ze usta no vlje nja in sti tu ci je za tvo ra u Ve li koj Bri ta ni ji u XVI II i XIX ve ku. Prem da se ana li zi ra spe ci fič no raz doblje i pod ne blje, iz ovog mi kro u zor ka se iz vo de za ključ ci ko ji na di la ze isto rij ski uslo vlje nu ana li zu. Cilj tek sta je da se po ka že da se re for ma mo ra raz u me ti kao iz raz i uči nak du bo ke tran sfor ma ci je po li tič kog, i kao ob u hva tan, mul tilate ra lan i disper zivan proces ko ji prodire i na te meljen na čin menja postoje će dru štve ne od no se.