Resist the Punitive State : Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and Prisons.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 -- 2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State-Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City -- 3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University -- Part II: Resisting the Punitive Welfare State: Housing, Mental Health, Disability and Immigration -- 4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement -- 5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare 'Reform' and for Something Better -- 6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell -- 7. The Disabled People's Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation -- 8. The 'Hostile Environment' for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance -- Part III: Subversive Knowledge and Resistance: Reconceptualising Criminalisation, Penality and Violence -- 9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing -- 10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons -- 11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want -- 12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?.

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