Liila Holmberg is a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Education and Culture at Tampere University, Finland. Her work draws on the sociology of education and focuses on subjectivation, power, and affect in institutional settings.
In her PhD, Holmberg analyses prison rehabilitation as a form of affective self-work. Based on ethnographic research in a women’s community rehabilitation unit, her study shows how rehabilitation is organised around prisoners’ engagement with emotions. She examines how affective self-work becomes the central mechanism through which change is produced, assessed, and regulated, highlighting the role of peer interaction and institutional frameworks in shaping contemporary forms of rehabilitative power.
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