Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-Moshe will talk about her new book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (U. of Minnesota Press, 2020). Her talk will be followed by discussion with the audience.
About the book: "This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration. Liat Ben-Moshe provides case studies that show how prison 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. Her analysis of lived experience, history, and culture charts a way out of a failing system of incarceration."
Please register for the Zoom event at this link: http://tiny.cc/Decarcerate
Accessibility info: captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.
Praise for the book from Angela Y. Davis: "Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements. Scholars and activists alike should read this book without delay!"