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Decarcerating Disability : Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition /

"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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ben-Moshe, Liat (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.