What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence? 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 range of activists and scholars, Resist the Punitive State highlights and theorises the front line of resistance movements actively opposing the state-corporate nexus. The chapters engage with different strategies of resistance in a variety of movements and campaigns. In doing so the book considers what we can learn from involvement in grassroots struggles, and contributes to contemporary debates around the role and significance of subversive knowledge and engaged scholarship in activism. Aimed at activists and campaigners plus students, researchers and educators in criminology, social policy, sociology, social work and the social sciences more broadly, Resist the Punitive State not only presents critiques of a range of harmful state-corporate policy agendas but situates these in the context of social movement struggles fighting for political transformation and alternative futures.
Author(s): Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener, Rich Moth
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pluto Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 289
Tags: Social Movements, Government: Resistance To, Radicalism
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction - Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener......Page 12
Part I: Challenging State-Corporate Power: Theories and Strategies of Resistance......Page 20
1. Resisting the Punitive State-Corporate Nexus- Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth......Page 22
2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State-Corporate Harm - Laura Naegler......Page 47
3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs and David Whyte......Page 65
Part II: Resisting the Punitive Welfare State: Housing, Mental health, Disability and Immigration......Page 86
4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement - Lisa Mckenzie......Page 88
5. Mad Studies - Peter Beresford......Page 107
6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell - Glyn Robbins......Page 127
7. The Disabled People's Movement in the Age of Austerity - Bob Williams-Findlay......Page 147
8. The 'Hostile Environment' for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance - Ken Olende......Page 168
Part III: Subversive Knowledge and Resistance: Reconceptualising Criminalisation, Penality and Violence......Page 188
9. Resisting the Surveillance State - Raphael Schlembach......Page 190
10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone - David Scott......Page 206
11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence - Julia Downes......Page 227
12. Challenging Prevent - Robert Ferguson......Page 251
Notes on Contributors......Page 274
Index......Page 277
