Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Autor Liat Ben-Mosheen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2020
Aplicabilitatea practică a volumului Decarcerating Disability rezidă în capacitatea sa de a oferi un model istoric de succes pentru reformele sociale radicale: închiderea instituțiilor psihiatrice de stat din secolul XX ca precedent pentru abolirea închisorilor. Considerăm că această lucrare reprezintă o piesă fundamentală pentru cercetătorii din domeniul sociologiei și al studiilor despre dizabilitate, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care societatea gestionează „diferența” prin izolare. Structura cărții este riguros organizată, pornind de la originile dezinstituționalizării, trecând prin analiza rezistenței de tip NIMBY și culminând cu limitările litigiilor în obținerea libertății reale. Putem afirma că Liat Ben-Moshe demonstrează cum abolirea nu este o utopie, ci o realitate istorică documentată în domeniul dizabilităților intelectuale. Volumul funcționează ca o alternativă teoretică la The Legacies of Institutionalisation pentru cursurile de drept și politici sociale, având avantajul de a integra o analiză politică și afectivă a economiilor carcerale, nu doar una pur juridică. În contextul operei sale, dacă volumul anterior coordonat de autoare, Disability Incarcerated, cartografia diversele spații de izolare, Decarcerating Disability face pasul următor, propunând strategii concrete de eliberare și integrare. Este o lectură densă, cu un ton academic precis, care demontează argumentul facil că închisorile sunt „noile aziluri”, reîncadrând discuția în termeni de drepturi civile și justiție socială.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1517904439
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 4
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din asistență socială, activiștilor și academicienilor interesați de reforma sistemului penal. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care politicile de dizabilitate și justiția penală se intersectează. Este un instrument esențial pentru a înțelege de ce simpla reformă instituțională eșuează adesea și cum experiența istorică a comunității persoanelor cu dizabilități poate ghida eforturile actuale de decarcerare.
Despre autor
Liat Ben-Moshe este o figură centrală în studiile critice despre dizabilitate și abolitionism, activând ca profesor asociat de criminologie, drept și justiție. Cercetările sale se concentrează pe intersecția dintre rasă, gen și dizabilitate în cadrul sistemelor de control social. Pe lângă acest volum, a contribuit semnificativ la literatură prin lucrări precum Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts, unde explorează incluziunea în mediul academic. Expertiza sa îmbină analiza istorică cu activismul, oferind o voce distinctă în dezbaterile despre complexul industrial-penitenciar din Statele Unite.
Descriere scurtă
Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.
Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom.
Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.
Notă biografică
Cuprins
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Case for Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization
1. The Perfect Storm: Origin Stories of Deinstitutionalization
2. Abolition in Deinstitutionalization: Normalization and the Myth of Mental Illness
3. Abolition as Knowledge and Ways of Unknowing
4. Why Prisons Are Not “the New Asylums”
5. Resistance to Inclusion and Community Living: NIMBY, Desegregation, and Race-Ability
6. Political and Affective Economies of Closing Carceral Enclosures
7. Institutional and Prison Reform Litigation: From Politicization to the Governable Iron Cage
Epilogue: Abolition Now
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Recenzii
"In Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe carefully and incisively models an intersectional approach to abolition grounded in feminist, queer, and crip of color critique. Moving beyond demands for inclusion and critiques of overrepresentation, Ben-Moshe makes a powerful and persuasive case for a disability studies that recognizes state violence as central to its work and the carceral industrial complex as a site for queer coalitions for racial and disability justice. In so doing, she paves the way for thinking not only disability and disability studies differently, but also liberation itself."—Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin
"Decarcerating Disability is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling the interlocking systems of incarceration that shape the contemporary political landscape and shorten so many lives. Liat Ben-Moshe shows how the effectiveness of abolitionist work has been limited by the marginalization of disability and anti-sanism analysis and advocacy. She not only exposes how much contemporary abolitionists have to learn from historical struggles for deinstitutionalization, she also demonstrates a more truly intersectional method of abolitionist scholar-activism that we urgently need. This book is both a corrective intervention and a path-breaking tool for developing better strategy toward the world that those who seek liberation are fighting to build."—Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law
"Ben-Moshe outlines how people fought for a new paradigm in mental health treatment before. Beginning in the 1960s, widespread deinstitutionalization sparked by disability activists shut down asylums across the country. Many see this movement now as a failure because it led to more people with mental illness being herded into jails and prisons. But Ben-Moshe argues that this was a pivotal step in abolition by grassroots organizing."—Teen Vogue
"Examining decarceration and deinstitutionalisation within the same frame is vitally important...the book challenges us to think about the range of carceral facilities that exist."—Race Class
"A groundbreaking connection between disability justice and prison abolition."—Public Books
"Decarcerating Disability should be read not only by students and scholars of African-American studies, criminology, critical theory, gender studies, law, or sociology, nor only by policy makers, but by all who are concerned about disability, gender, or racial justice."—American Journal of Sociology
"Each chapter of Decarcerating Disability serves as a fantastic example of the knowledges, perspectives, and genealogies that are made possible when disability and madness are the lenses through which a queer of color critique is engaged."—Disability Studies Quarterly
"Decarcerating Disability is an impressive text that powerfully argues for robust coalitional politics to challenge the logic of incarceration. Entire syllabi and reading groups can be structured around this text as Ben-Moshe opens up much to consider, especially how to effectively demand carceral-free futures, while also valuing disability. "—Ethnic Studies Review
"Decarcerating disability: Deinstitutionalization and prison abolition is a
bold and challenging critical intervention, which puts critical disability studies, deinstitutionalisation, decarceration, and abolition theory and scholarship into closer conversation with each other. In so doing, the book has pushed these fields forward in new and, interesting ways. The book’s strongest contribution is its attempt to transform, redefine, and reframe what disability studies is and can be about, its appeal to frame and address issues of incarceration and decarceration as disability and carceral abolition issues, and the generative groundwork laid for fostering coalitional, liberatory politics and ideas."—Australian New Zealand Journal of Criminology
"[A]n important book that offers both a sweeping genealogy of disability and its
entangled history with race and incarceration, and rallying cry for abolitionism."—Journal of Constructivist Psychology
"Ben-Moshe offers a detailed history of institutionalization and incarceration primarily in the United States. In putting institutionalization and incarceration in conversation, Ben-Moshe offers a larger consideration around the systems that keep certain individuals enclosed and the implications of deinstitutionalization as a movement versus louder for total prison abolition. A major intervention of Ben-Moshe’s book is the different approaches to and opinions of institutions as opposed to prison systems across the United States."—Work in Critical and Cultural Theory