Resist the Punitive State

Description

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.

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener

PART I: CHALLENGING STATE–CORPORATE POWER: THEORIES AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE

1. Resisting the Punitive State–Corporate Nexus: Activist Strategy and the Integrative Transitional Approach - Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth

2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State–Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City - Laura Naegler

3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs and David Whyte

PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION

4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement - Lisa Mckenzie

5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare ‘Reform’ and for Something Better - Peter Beresford

6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell - Glyn Robbins

7. The Disabled People’s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation - Bob Williams-Findlay

8. The ‘Hostile Environment’ for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance - Ken Olende

PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE

9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing - Raphael Schlembach

10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons - David Scott

11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want - Julia Downes

12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties - Robert Ferguson

Notes on Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Social Work
• Public Policy
• Constitutions
• Business Ethics
• Political Science
• 21st century
• Grenfell
• General officer
• Criminology
• Central
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786805300
• Langue: English

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Resist the Punitive State
Resist the Punitive State
Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons
Edited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich Moth
First published 2020 by Pluto Press
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For Lucas, Eleanor, Iris and Finlay
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener
PART I: CHALLENGING STATE-CORPORATE POWER: THEORIES AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE
1. Resisting the Punitive State-Corporate Nexus: Activist Strategy and the Integrative Transitional Approach Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth
2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State-Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City Laura Naegler
3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University Steve Tombs and David Whyte
PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION
4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement Lisa Mckenzie
5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare Reform and for Something Better Peter Beresford
6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell Glyn Robbins
7. The Disabled People s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation Bob Williams-Findlay
8. The Hostile Environment for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance Ken Olende
PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE
9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing Raphael Schlembach
10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons David Scott
11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want Julia Downes
12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties Robert Ferguson
Notes on Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank colleagues in the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, University of Liverpool in Singapore and the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool for their support and collegiality. Thanks also to The School of Law and Social Justice Research Development Fund for providing the finances to host the conference that laid the foundations for this collection. Thanks to Joe Sim, Steve Corbett and Chris Grover for reading drafts of the proposal and offering advice. Thanks also to the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control for providing the platform and critical space that led to the development of the ideas behind this book. Thanks to the team at Pluto Press and in particular David Castle for all the help and enthusiasm for the project. Finally, enormous gratitude for the hard work of all the contributors to this collection, for their diligence, patience and enthusiasm for the project and for responding to what were at times pretty tight deadlines. Massive thanks and we hope you are happy with the final book.
Emily would like to thank fellow UCU activists on the University of Liverpool UCU committee and all those who joined us on the picket lines. Many thanks also to Dave Whyte for his support as her research mentor and friend. I have been lucky enough to spend time with some pretty amazing critical women in Liverpool over the last few years and they have provided support, friendship, wine and inspiration, special mention to Ala Sirriyeh, Kay Inckle, Kirsteen Paton, Zoe Alker, Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, Samantha Fletcher, Kellie Rudge-Thompson, Tracy Ramsey, Laura Penketh, Rose Devereux, Nicki Blundell, Philomena Harrison, Jo McNeil and Lucy Hanson. Thanks to fellow Community Action on Prison Expansion activists, in particular those involved in our fight in Wigan: Nicole, Heledd, Marion, Solvi, Tony, David, Paul, Jan and others. To my students past and present, who got behind the USS strikes and who have embraced the abolitionist arguments. Thanks also to Anna Marshall, Liz Stack, Fiona Pender and David Evans, you have listened gracefully to all my moans. To Mum, Dad and Lucy for always cheering me on. To Andrew for the last 20. To Finlay and Iris, keep on resisting .
Joe would like to thank all those people who have been a source of academic support and political inspiration over recent years and especially Laura Naegler, Christian Perrin, Eve Yeo, Pablo Ciocchini, Laura Vitis, Will McGowan, Anna Anderson, Guy Jamieson, Rose Devereux, SUGAH, Michael Lavalette, Laura Penketh and Julia O Connell Davidson. The deepest gratitude to my mum and dad (Jenny and Joe) and my two sisters (Helen and Megan). And, finally, not forgetting Laura Meehan and Eleanor for bringing joy and happiness into my life every day.
Rich would like to thank activist colleagues past and present in the Social Work Action Network (SWAN) for commitment and comradeship in the project to rebuild radical social work: Michael, Iain, Vasilios, Laura, Alissa, Dan, Linda, Mark, Malcolm, Jeremy, Sue, Bea, Peter, Bob, Rea, Carol, Simon, Nicki, Nick and Terry. Also big thanks to colleagues in the worlds of the survivor, mental health, disabled people s and psychocompulsion movements for all the energy and inspiration: Guy, Carys, Trish, Noreen, Liz, Denise, Paula, Helen, Mick, Ann, Alex, Jay, Rick, Anne, Joanna, Richard, Debbie, Paul, Roger, Roy, Lynne, Linda, and Phil. To colleagues at Liverpool Hope for support and friendship over the years: Rose, Nicki, Kel, Scott, Philomena, Tracy, Hakan, Steven, Lucy, Dave and Steve, as well as colleagues from SUGAH and students. Not forgetting Mum, Kirstin, Andy and the rest of the Williams Clan, and never forgetting Nan and Grandad. To Lucas, my little ray of light. And, above all, to Nicola for everything, always.
Introduction
Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener
In recent years, a diverse range of groups including some of the most marginalised of our fellow citizens have been subjected to a range of deeply harmful policies and practices by state institutions and their corporate proxies. Recent scholarly activity has drawn necessary attention to these draconian developments and gone some way to describing and explaining the violence inherent in recent political developments (Cooper and Whyte, 2017). Our primary objective in this book is to highlight emerging examples of resistance to these various forms of state-corporate social harm and violence with reference to specific arenas of welfare and criminal justice policy and practice.
This collection contains contributions written by engaged scholars and activists, who are at the forefront of campaigning and resistance in a number of substantive policy arenas including mental health, disability, welfare, education, social housing, prison expansion and migration and illustrate the contribution of these emerging movements for social justice in response to increasingly punitive state actions.
In doing this, however, we are trying to attempt to break down the divide between activism and academic scholarship by elevating activist practice and knowledge in these various fields of social science.
One of the major areas of debate is around issues concerning strategies of resistance deployed by campaigners. On display across the following chapters is a series of examples of political organising which demonstrate different forces and relations of movement production , to use Barker and Cox s terminology (n.d.). The forces of movement production might be described as the current institutional factors, technological tools available, wider state of politics and political alliances - the possibilities available from the repertoire of collective action (Davenport, 2009). The relations of social movement production are the social labour that goes into creating a political movement and in particular the tensions and unities within the organisation and with others outside. This would include issues around how to relate and interact with each other in the course of protest. In examining the forces and relations of social movements, every chapter examines some of the multiplicity of practices, pressures, contradictions and opportunities that lead to (or inhibit) successful oppositional political organisation.
Each chapter examines strategies that have been utilised and developed by various grassroots networks, movements, activists and engaged scholars. We explore how these strategic approaches and differing modes of struggle combine, overlap or exist in tension with each other within the lived realities of activist campaigns and networks. We demonstrate through the contributions in this collection that social movement activist practices rarely fit neatly into discrete scholarly categorisations such as the tripartite real utopias framework of reformist (symbiotic), prefigurative (interstitial) and revolutionary (ruptural) orientations as suggested by Wright (Wright, 2010).
In summary, the book examines the relationship between activist i