Liat Ben-Moshe is an activist-scholar-educator-researcher working at the intersection of incarceration, decarceration, abolition and disability/madness. Her work aims to expand what counts as incarceration to include all carceral locales (including residential institutions for people with intellectual disabilities, psych facilities and prisons/jails) and to connect deinstitutionalization, disability and mad movements to prison abolition activism through an intersectional lens.
ABOUT
Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
"Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements. Scholars and activists alike should read this book without delay!"
- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Provocative, original, and timely, this collection reveals inextricable links between disability and incarceration. Each study of confinement places disability in sustained dialogue with broader forces and identities, including race, gender, sexuality and class. Accessible prose and collaborative projects attest to the transformative power of activist scholarship."
- Susan Burch, Associate Professor of American Studies and former director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Middlebury College, USA
“This book reaches beyond the scope of strategies-focused compliance with the ADA, and through initially positioning chapters that disrupt able-ist curriculum and pedagogy, the editors emphasize socially responsible curriculum and universally accessible design….. The overall effect is that the reader is not immediately focused on compliance with the bare-minimum of federal policy, and is instead treated, first, to the ideas of those who think beyond compliance."
- Susan Baglieri, Teachers College, Columbia University
Upcoming/Recent Events
UMass Amherst - Feb. 16, 7 PM (Eastern), Register here. CART, ASL provided
The 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference organized by BCRW “Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.” Feb 23, 6:30 PM (Eastern) Register here
Wake Forest University- April 8
UCLA- April 20. Disability, Decarceration, & Decoloniality
Abolition of Prisons and Disability Confinement. The Yi-Fu Lecture Series, Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. April 29, 2022. Join here
CONTACT
Liat Ben-Moshe, PhD
Criminology, Law and Justice
4056B BSB (M/C 141)
University of Illinois at Chicago
1007 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7140