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1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Challenging state-corporate power: theories and strategies of resistance. Resisting the punitive state-corporate nexus: activist strategy and the integrative transitional approach / Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth -- Prefigurative politics as resistance to state-corporate harm: fighting gentrification in post-Occupy New York City / Laura Naegler -- Struggles inside and outside the university / Steve Tombs and David Whyte. |
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Part II. Resisting the punitive welfare state: housing, mental health, disability and immigration. Class, politics and locality in the London Housing Movement / Lisa McKenzie -- Mad studies: campaigning against the psychiatric system and welfare 'reform' and for something better / Peter Beresford -- Challenging neoliberal housing in the shadow of Grenfell / Glyn Robbins -- Disabled People's Movement in the age of austerity: rights, resistance and reclamation / Bob Williams-Findlay -- The 'hostile environment' for immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and resistance / Ken Olende. |
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Part III. Subversive knowledge and resistance: reconceptualising criminalisation, penality and violence. Resisting the surveillance state: deviant knowledge and undercover policing / Raphael Schlembach -- Ordinary rebels, everyone: abolitionist activist scholars and the mega prisons / David Scott -- Re-imagining an end to gendered violence: prefiguring the worlds we want / Julia Downes -- Challenging prevent: building resistance to institutional Islamophobia and the attack on civil liberties / Robert Ferguson. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social movements.
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Social movements. |
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Government, Resistance to.
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Government, Resistance to. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Added Author |
Hart, Emily Luise, editor.
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Greener, Joe, editor.
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Moth, Rich, editor.
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Grassroots struggles across welfare, housing, education and prisons |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Resist the punitive state. London : Pluto Press, 2020 9780745339528 (OCoLC)1138604129 |
| ISBN |
9781786805294 pdf |
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1786805294 pdf |
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9781786805300 epub |
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1786805308 epub |
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9780745339528 hardback |
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9780745339511 paperback |
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