Acknowledgements
Introduction
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 (University
of Liverpool, Singapore), Emily Luise Hart (University of
Liverpool, UK) and Rich Moth (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State-Corporate Harm:
Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City - Laura
Naegler (Northumbria University, UK)
3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs (Open
University, UK) and David Whyte (University of Liverpool, UK)
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 (London School of Economics, UK)
5. Mad Studies: Campaigning against the Psychiatric System and
Welfare 'Reform' and for Something Better - Peter Beresford (Brunel
University London, UK)
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 (British Council
of Disabled People, UK)
8. The 'Hostile Environment' for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal
and Resistance - Ken Olende (Workers' Educational Association,
UK)
Part III: Subversive Knowledge and Resistance: Reconceptualising
Criminalisation, Penality and Violence
9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and
Undercover Policing - Raphael Schlembach (University of Brighton,
UK)
10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and
the Mega Prisons - David Scott (Open University, UK)
11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the
Worlds We Want - Julia Downes (Open University, UK)
12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional
Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties - Robert Ferguson
(National Union of Teachers, UK)
Notes on Contributors
Index
Emily Luise Hart is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Her research takes a critical and abolitionist approach to the study of prisons; women offenders; forms of prisoner resistance and desistance from crime. She is co-editor of New Perspectives on Desistance: Theoretical and Empirical Developments (Palgrave, 2017) and is a campaigner for Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) and a Trade Union activist. Joe Greener is Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool in Singapore. Joe has been an active campaigner in several anti-austerity campaigns in Liverpool. His research interests broadly address critical perspectives on welfare policy and criminology in Singapore and the United Kingdom. More specifically, recent research has focused on the social care crisis, prisons and the impact of privatisation. Rich Moth is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool Hope University. Rich has been involved in a number of mental health, welfare and anti-austerity campaigns over recent years, and is a member of the national steering committee of activist group the Social Work Action Network (SWAN). He is author of Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge and Practice in Neoliberal Mental Health Services (Policy Press, 2019), and an Associate Editor of Critical and Radical Social Work journal.
'At a time when organising resistance and protest is crucially
necessary, the collected authors marshal a virtuous trinity of
activism, critically engaged scholarship and theory. Activists may
not need academics, and nor should they be in the vanguard, but
this text highlights welcome intellectual and practical solidarity'
-- Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health at the
University of Central Lancashire
'In this excellent book, the editors bring together an impressive
range of chapters covering resistance to punitivism in social
welfare and criminal justice. The book's radical agendas are
crystal clear and critical at a time of brutal state action. It
deserves a wide readership' -- Chris Grover, co-editor of 'Disabled
People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer?'
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