Introduction

Dr talisive is a doctoral fellow at jonup kins university. His research focuses on social services and welfare in the city of philadelphia. He says he was motivated to find out more about an institutional network that has existed since the height of mass incarceration. The interview will be divide into three parts, the first focussing on talis field work. The second on how to conceptualize the familiar when conducting field work at home. And the third part on the stakes of doing research in the us.