April 29, 2022 - 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Liat Ben-Moshe
University of Illinois, Chicago
Abolition of Prisons and Disability Confinement
Dr. Ben Moshe’s research shows how disability/mad knowledges and histories, and their racial resonances, should inform analysis of the closure of carceral enclosures such as prisons, jails, psychiatric hospitals and residential institutions for those with intellectual or developmental disabilities, through the prism of abolition. By foregrounding deinstitutionalization as carceral abolition, Ben Moshe’s recent book Decarcerating Disability provides lessons for prison abolition but also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses.
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