Resist the punitive state : grassroots struggles across welfare, housing, education and prisons /

To examine government policy and state practice on housing, welfare, mental health, disability, prisons or immigration is to come face-to-face with the harsh realities of the 'punitive state'. But state violence and corporate harm always meet with resistance. With contributions from a wide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hart, Emily Luise (Editor ), Greener, Joe (Editor ), Moth, Rich (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2020.
Temas:
Social movements.
Government, Resistance to.
Mouvements sociaux.
Résistance au gouvernement.
social movements.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Government, Resistance to
Social movements
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Challenging state-corporate power: theories and strategies of resistance. Resisting the punitive state-corporate nexus: activist strategy and the integrative transitional approach / Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth
  • Prefigurative politics as resistance to state-corporate harm: fighting gentrification in post-Occupy New York City / Laura Naegler
  • Struggles inside and outside the university / Steve Tombs and David Whyte.
  • Part II. Resisting the punitive welfare state: housing, mental health, disability and immigration. Class, politics and locality in the London Housing Movement / Lisa McKenzie
  • Mad studies: campaigning against the psychiatric system and welfare 'reform' and for something better / Peter Beresford
  • Challenging neoliberal housing in the shadow of Grenfell / Glyn Robbins
  • The Disabled People's Movement in the age of austerity: rights, resistance and reclamation / Bob Williams-Findlay
  • The 'hostile environment' for immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and resistance / Ken Olende.
  • Part III. Subversive knowledge and resistance: reconceptualising criminalisation, penality and violence. Resisting the surveillance state: deviant knowledge and undercover policing / Raphael Schlembach
  • Ordinary rebels, everyone: abolitionist activist scholars and the mega prisons / David Scott
  • Re-imagining an end to gendered violence: prefiguring the worlds we want / Julia Downes
  • Challenging prevent: building resistance to institutional Islamophobia and the attack on civil liberties / Robert Ferguson.

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