Disability Incarcerated : Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

Disability Incarcerated Offers An Outstanding Collection Of Interdisciplinary Scholarship Examining The Incarceration And Segregation Of People With Disabilities The United States And Canada. Disability Incarcerated Gathers Thirteen Contributions From An Impressive Array Of Fields. Taken Together, These Essays Assert That A Complex Understanding Of Disability Is Crucial To An Understanding Of Incarceration, And That We Must Expand What Has Come To Be Called 'incarceration.' The Chapters In This Book Examine A Host Of Sites, Such As Prisons, Institutions For People With Developmental Disabilities, Psychiatric Hospitals, Treatment Centers, Special Education, Detention Centers, And Group Homes; Explore Why Various Sites Should Be Understood As Incarceration; And Discuss The Causes And Effects Of These Sites Historically And Currently. This Volume Includes A Preface By Professor Angela Y. Davis And An Afterword By Professor Robert Mcruer. Provocative, Original, And Timely, This Collection Reveals Inextricable Links Between Disability And Incarceration. Each Study Of Confinement Places Disability In Sustained Dialogue With Broader Forces And Identities, Including Race, Gender, Sexuality And Class. Accessible Prose And Collaborative Projects Attest To The Transformative Power Of Activist Scholarship.--susan Burch, Associate Professor Of American Studies And Former Director Of The Center For The Comparative Study Of Race And Ethnicity, Middlebury College, Usa Disability Incarcerated Challenges Both Scholarship And Activism Around The Prison Industrial Complex By Demonstrating How Disability Is Central To Systems Of Incarceration. It Further Shows How The Build-up Of The Prison Nation Is Not Just Around Policing Race And Gender, But Simultaneously Policing Disability. This Book Thus Highlights How Race, Colonialism, And Gender Operate Through Disability. An Amazing Collection.' - Andrea Smith, Associate Professor Of Media And Cultural Studies, University Of California, Riverside, Usa. Foreword -- Angela Y. Davis Acknowledgments Preface: An Overview Of Disability Incarcerated -- Allison Carey, Liat Ben-moshe, And Chris Chapman Part I. Interlocking Histories And Legacies Of Confinement 1. Reconsidering Confinement: Interlocking Locations And Logics Of Incarceration -- Chris Chapman, Allison C. Carey, And Liat Ben-moshe 2. Five Centuries' Material Reforms And Ethical Reformulations Of Social Elimination -- Chris Chapman 3. Creating The Back Ward: The Triumph Of Custodialism And The Uses Of Therapeutic Failure In Nineteenth Century Idiot Asylums -- Phil Ferguson 4. Eugenics Incarceration And Expulsion: Daniel G. And Andrew T.'s Deportation From 1928 Toronto, Canada -- Geoffrey Reaume 5. Crippin' Jim Crow: Disability And The School-to-prison Pipeline -- Nirmala Erevelles 6. Walking The Line Between The Past And The Future: Parents' Resistance And Commitment To Institutionalization --^ Allison C. Carey And Lucy Gu 7. Remembering Institutional Erasures: The Meaning Of Histories Of Disability Incarceration In Ontario -- Jihan Abbas And Jijian Voronka Part Ii. Interlocking Oppressions, Contemporary Lockdown And Contested Futures 8. The New Asylums: Madness And Mass Incarceration In The Neoliberal Era -- Michael Rembis 9. It Can't Be Fixed Because It's Not Broken: Racism And Disability In The Prison Industrial Complex -- Syrus Ware, Joan Ruzsa And Giselle Dias 10. Chemical Constraint: Experiences Of Psychiatric Coercion, Restraint, And Detention As Carceratory Techniques -- Erick Fabris And Katie Aubrecht 11. Racing Madness: The Terrorizing Madness Of The Post-9/11 Terrorist Body -- Shaista Patel 12. Refugee Camps, Asylum Detention, And The Geopolitics Of Transnational Mobility: Disability And Its Intersections With Humanitarian Confinement -- Mansha Mirza 13. Self-advocacy: The Emancipation Movement Led By People With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities --^ Mark Friedman And Ruthie-marie Beckwith 14. Alternatives To (disability) Incarceration -- Liat Ben-moshe Afterword -- Robert Mcruer. Edited By Liat Ben-moshe, Chris Chapman And Allison C. Carey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.