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Ximena Arias-Manzano worked as an Open University Associate Lecturer in Spanish in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison between 1999 and 2000. She came to Northern Ireland from South America in 1990 and since 1999 has worked as an Associate Lecturer in Spanish. At the time of interview Ximena is a Staff Tutor in Languages for the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics a post she has held since 2013.
Ximena Arias-Manzano worked as an Open University Associate Lecturer in Spanish in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison between 1999 and 2000. She came to Northern Ireland from South America in 1990 and since 1999 has worked as an Associate Lecturer in Spanish. At the time of interview Ximena is a Staff Tutor in Languages for the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics a post she has held since 2013.
| Title: | First visit to the H Blocks |
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| Description: | Ximena Arias-Manzano recalls her first visit to tutor an Open University student of Spanish in the H Blocks and how she found the environment of the prison with the gates and locks and the security very alienating how even as a visitor she felt she had lost her freedom and what it must be like to feel as a prisoner. | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Ximena Arias-Manzano |
| Duration: | 00:01:12 |
| Master programe code and title: | Ximena Arias-Manzano Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:04:36 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:05:28 |
| Master programme production number: | 085_T_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
