Resist the punitive state grassroots struggles across welfare, housing, education and prisons / edited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich Moth.

Other author Hart, Emily Luise.
Other author Greener, Joe.
Other author Moth, Rich.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Pluto Press, 2020.
Descriptionxvii, 260 pages ; 23 cm
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Portion of title Grassroots struggles across welfare, housing, education and prisons
Contents Part one. 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.
Contents Part two. 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 -- The 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.
Contents Part three. 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.
Abstract Offers a collections of essays highlighting and theorizing 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. Contributors not only present critiques of a range of harmful state-corporate policy agendas but situate these in the context of social movement struggles fighting for political transformation and alternative futures. --Adapted from publisher description.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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