ONLINE: Abolition of Prisons and Disability Confinement – Isthmus

press launch: Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe’s analysis exhibits how incapacity/mad knowledges and histories, and their racial resonances, ought to inform evaluation of the closure of carceral enclosures similar to prisons, jails, psychiatric hospitals and residential establishments for these with mental or developmental disabilities, by means of the prism of abolition. By foregrounding deinstitutionalization as carceral abolition, Ben Moshe’s current guide Decarcerating Incapacity offers classes for jail abolition but additionally illuminates among the limitations of incapacity rights and inclusion discourses.

Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Sequence displays happen each Friday through the semester at 3:30 PM, both in Room 180 of Science Corridor or on Zoom. Brown bag classes begin at midday on the times there are audio system. Alumni, pals and the general public are at all times invited to attend.

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