Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Keywords
Liat Ben Moshe, Linda Steele, Critical Disability Studies, Anti-Carceral Studies, Prison Abolitionism, Rights-Based Litigation, Solitary Confinement
Abstract
I consider how Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability and Linda Steele’s Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion contribute to emerging conversations between critical disability studies and anti-carceral studies, and between disability deinstitutionalization and prison abolitionism. I ask: what if any role might law, or specifically rights-based litigation, play in resisting carceral state strategies and redirecting material and conceptual resources toward supports for diverse forms of flourishing? I centre my remarks on the special relevance of Ben-Moshe’s and Steele’s books to social movement activism in Atlantic Canada and critical reappraisal of Canada’s solitary confinement litigation.
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Recommended Citation
Sheila Wildeman, "Critical Pathways to Disability Decarceration: Reading Liat Ben-Moshe and Linda Steele" (2023) 12:1 feminists@law 1.
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