| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization -- The Perfect Storm : Origin Stories of Deinstitutionalization -- Abolition in Deinstitutionalization : Normalization and the Myth of Mental Illness -- Abolition as Knowledge and Ways of Unknowing -- Why Prisons Are Not "the New Asylums" -- Resistance to Inclusion and Community Living: NIMBY, Desegregation, and Race-ability -- Political and Affective Economies of Closing Carceral Enclosures -- Decarcerating through the Courts : Past, Present, and Future of Institutional and Prison Litigation -- Epilogue : Abolition Now |
| Summary |
"Politics of (En)closure: Deinstitutionalization, Disability, and Prison Abolition argues that a complex understanding of disability is fundamental to an understanding of decarceration. Many argue that the rise of deinstitutionalization led directly to the rise of imprisonment. Liat Ben-Moshe complicates this narrative by looking closely at how people of color and disabled people are pathologized as well as how profit plays a roll in caring for "disposable" populations in nursing homes, rehab facilities, prisons, etc. Ben-Moshe puts forth a theory of carceral abolition as a way to understand the failed utopian dream of deinstitutionalization and how to move forward"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2020) |
| Subject |
Deinstitutionalization -- United States
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People with disabilities -- Institutional care.
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Prisoners with disabilities -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States
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Alternatives to imprisonment -- United States
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Alternatives to imprisonment
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Deinstitutionalization
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People with disabilities -- Institutional care
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019027128 |
| ISBN |
9781452963501 |
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1452963509 |
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9781452963495 |
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1452963495 |
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1517904420 |
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1517904439 |
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9781517904425 |
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9781517904432 |
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