Disability Incarcerated Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

by Carey, Allison C.; Ben-Moshe, Liat; Chapman, Chris; Davis, Angela Y.

• ISBN13: 9781137404053
• ISBN10: 1137404051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-05-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Disability Incarcerated offers an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary scholarship examining the incarceration and segregation of people with disabilities the United States and Canada.

Author Biography

Liat Ben-Moshe holds a PhD in Sociology, with concentrations in Women Studies and Disability Studies, from Syracuse University and is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at the department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Chris Chapman is Assistant Professor at York University's School of Social Work. Chapman researches histories, rationales and practices of the 'helping professions' by mobilizing perspectives of those who have been subjected to them, and thus draws heavily on Disability Studies, Critical Race Theory, Anti-colonial Studies, Prison Abolitionist, Queer, and Feminist critiques of social services.

Allison C. Carey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Shippensburg University, and served as Coordinator of Research at Temple University's Institute on Disabilities from 2000-2004. Her 2009 book, On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in 20th Century America (Temple University Press), examines the debates related to civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities, and won the 2010 Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Angela Y. Davis
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Reconsidering Confinement: Interlocking Locations and Logics of Incarceration; Chris Chapman, Liat Ben-Moshe & Allison Carey

PART I. INTERSECTING HISTORIES AND LEGACIES OF CONFINEMENT

1.Five Centuries' Material Reforms and Ethical Reformulations of Social Elimination; Chris Chapman
2.Creating the Back Ward: The Triumph of Custodialism and the Uses of Therapeutic Failure in Nineteenth Century Idiot Asylums; Phil Ferguson
3.Eugenics Incarceration and Expulsion: Daniel G. and Andrew T.'s Deportation from 1928 Toronto, Canada; Geoffrey Reaume
4.Crippin' Jim Crow: Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; Nirmala Erevelles
5.Remembering Institutional Erasures: The meaning of histories of disability incarceration in Ontario; Jihan Abbas & Jijian Voronka
6.Walking the Line Between the Past and the Future: Parents' Resistance and Commitment to Institutionalization; Allison C. Carey & Lucy Gu
7.The New Asylums: Madness & Mass Incarceration in the Neoliberal Era; Michael Rembis


PART II. INTERLOCKING OPPRESSIONS, CONTEMPORARY LOCKDOWN AND CONTESTED FUTURES

8.It Can't be Fixed Because It's Not Broken: Racism and Disability in the Prison Industrial Complex; Syrus Ware, Joan Ruzsa & Giselle Dias
9.Can you hear me now? Voices of people still held hostage in state-run institutions; Mark Freidman & Ruthie-Marie Beckwith, in collaboration with people incarcerated in State Institutions
10.Racing Madness: The Terrorizing Madness of the Post-9/11 Terrorist Body; Shaista Patel
11.Refugee Camps, Asylum Detention, and the Geopolitics of Transnational Mobility: Disability and its Intersections with Humanitarian Confinement; Mansha Mirza
12.Chemical Constraint: Experiences of Psychiatric Coercion, Restraint, and Detention as Carceratory Techniques; Erick Fabris & Katie Aubrecht
13.Alternatives to (disability) incarceration; Liat Ben-Moshe

Afterword; Robert McRuer