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Resist the Punitive State Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons Edited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich Moth First published 2020 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA www.plutobooks.com Copyright © Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich Moth 2020 The right of the individual contributors to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7453 3952 8 Hardback ISBN 978 0 7453 3951 1 Paperback ISBN 978 1 7868 0529 4 PDF eBook ISBN 978 1 7868 0531 7 Kindle eBook ISBN 978 1 7868 0530 0 EPUB eBook This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin. Typeset by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England For Lucas, Eleanor, Iris and Finlay Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener 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 3 Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth 2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State–Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City 28 Laura Naegler 3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University 46 Steve Tombs and David Whyte PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION 4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement 69 Lisa Mckenzie 5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare ‘Reform’ and for Something Better 88 Peter Beresford 6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell 108 Glyn Robbins 7. The Disabled People’s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation 128 Bob Williams-Findlay 8. The ‘Hostile Environment’ for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance 149 Ken Olende resist the punitive state PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE 9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing 171 Raphael Schlembach 10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons 187 David Scott 11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want 208 Julia Downes 12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties 232 Robert Ferguson Notes on Contributors 255 Index 258 viii Acknowledgements We would like to thank colleagues in the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, University of Liverpool in Singapore and the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the Uni- versity of Liverpool for their support and collegiality. Thanks also to The School of Law and Social Justice Research Development Fund for providing the finances to host the conference that laid the foundations for this collection. Thanks to Joe Sim, Steve Corbett and Chris Grover for reading drafts of the proposal and offering advice. Thanks also to the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control for providing the platform and critical space that led to the development of the ideas behind this book. Thanks to the team at Pluto Press and in particular David Castle for all the help and enthusiasm for the project. Finally, enormous gratitude for the hard work of all the contributors to this collection, for their diligence, patience and enthusiasm for the project and for responding to what were at times pretty tight deadlines. Massive thanks and we hope you are happy with the final book. Emily would like to thank fellow UCU activists on the University of Liverpool UCU committee and all those who joined us on the picket lines. Many thanks also to Dave Whyte for his support as her research mentor and friend. I have been lucky enough to spend time with some pretty amazing critical women in Liverpool over the last few years and they have provided support, friendship, wine and inspiration, special mention to Ala Sirriyeh, Kay Inckle, Kirsteen Paton, Zoe Alker, Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, Samantha Fletcher, Kellie Rudge-Thompson, Tracy Ramsey, Laura Penketh, Rose Devereux, Nicki Blundell, Philomena Harrison, Jo McNeil and Lucy Hanson. Thanks to fellow Community Action on Prison Expansion activists, in particular those involved in our fight in Wigan: Nicole, Heledd, Marion, Solvi, Tony, David, Paul, Jan and others. To my students past and present, who got behind the USS strikes and who have embraced the abolitionist arguments. Thanks also to Anna Marshall, Liz Stack, Fiona Pender and David Evans, you have listened gracefully to all my moans. To Mum, Dad and Lucy for always ix
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