{"product_id":"resist-the-punitive-state-9780745339511","title":"Resist the Punitive State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'At a time when organising resistance and protest is crucially necessary, the collected authors marshal a virtuous trinity of activism, critically engaged scholarship and theory. Activists may not need academics, and nor should they be in the vanguard, but this text highlights welcome intellectual and practical solidarity' -- Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire\u003cbr\u003e'In this excellent book, the editors bring together an impressive range of chapters covering resistance to punitivism in social welfare and criminal justice. The book's radical agendas are crystal clear and critical at a time of brutal state action. It deserves a wide readership' -- Chris Grover, co-editor of 'Disabled People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Introduction - Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener\u003cbr\u003e PART I: CHALLENGING STATE–CORPORATE POWER: THEORIES AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE\u003cbr\u003e 1. Resisting the Punitive State–Corporate Nexus: Activist Strategy and the Integrative Transitional Approach - Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth\u003cbr\u003e 2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State–Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City - Laura Naegler\u003cbr\u003e 3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs and David Whyte\u003cbr\u003e PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION\u003cbr\u003e 4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement - Lisa Mckenzie\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare ‘Reform’ and for Something Better - Peter Beresford\u003cbr\u003e 6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell - Glyn Robbins\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Disabled People’s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation - Bob Williams-Findlay\u003cbr\u003e 8. The ‘Hostile Environment’ for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance - Ken Olende\u003cbr\u003e PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE\u003cbr\u003e 9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing - Raphael Schlembach\u003cbr\u003e 10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons - David Scott\u003cbr\u003e 11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want - Julia Downes\u003cbr\u003e 12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties - Robert Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404318122327,"sku":"9780745339511","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745339511.jpg?v=1730486085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resist-the-punitive-state-9780745339511","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}