Liat Ben-Moshe
Biographic Data
| ID | 317569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liat Ben-Moshe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liat |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Moshe |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-MOSHE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0172-0336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Depathologization as Healing Justice
Healing justice, as with disability justice, and transformative justice/abolition, has largely been a queer-, trans-, woman of color-led intervention into the rights-based, reform-based, and neo/liberal agendas of whitestream movements. We see each of these movements for justice as deeply intertwined with the others, where interdependence and leaving no one behind are key commitments that are not compatible with the individualism of rights and re…
Challenge to What Is
This collection could not have come in a more prescient time. As the editors suggest, "The present volume is, at once, then, a historical archive, a conceptual challenge, and a tactical tool kit." 1 I will focus my comments on some tactical questions regarding the effect and aftermath of the GIP investigation on the intolerability of incarceration. What effect did it have on those incarcerated? On prison conditions? On the rationale of confinemen…
Decarcerating Disability
"Politics of (En)closure: Deinstitutionalization, Disability, and Prison Abolition argues that a complex understanding of disability is fundamental to an understanding of decarceration. Many argue that the rise of deinstitutionalization led directly to the rise of imprisonment. Liat Ben-Moshe complicates this narrative by looking closely at how people of color and disabled people are pathologized as well as how profit plays a roll in caring for "…
Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable
The United States relies on carceralism—mass incarceration and institutionalization, surveillance and control—for its continued operation. The criminalization of difference, particularly in relation to race, disability and queerness, renders certain people as perpetually subject to state violence due to their perceived unruliness. This article relies on two case studies, in Toledo, Ohio and Brooklyn, New York to question the construction and co-o…
Dis-orientation, dis-epistemology and abolition
What is the relation between knowledge and orientation? How does being disoriented lead one to new knowledge or/and to being humbled (tenderized) about not knowing? How can not knowing aid in liberatory struggles, in alleviating oppression or even in being in community with like-minded people in an ethical manner? These are some of the questions that Ami Harbin’s work “Disorientation and Moral Life” brought up for me and which I would like to exp…
Dis-epistemologies of Abolition
The State of (Intersectional Critique of) State Violence
The State of (Intersectional Critique of) State Violence1 Liat Ben-Moshe (bio) Andrea J. Ritchie's Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color, Boston: Beacon Press, 2017 Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017 As I write this review in April 2018, the U.S. just dropped bombs over Syria, Israel used lethal force in countering protests in Gaza resulti…
Why prisons are not “The New Asylums”
This paper will offer an antidote to the axiom that jails and prisons are becoming “the new asylums” in the U.S. Without disregarding the reality of having disproportioned numbers of people with disabilities (psychiatric, cognitive, learning disabilities in particular) in jails and prisons, I will caution against declarations that prisons are becoming “the new asylums” in the U.S. and offer a more nuanced explanation that incorporates perspective…
Mad Futures
Mad Futures:Affect/Theory/Violence Tanja Aho (bio), Liat Ben-Moshe (bio), and Leon J. Hilton (bio) The Affect of Violence In the summer of 2016 a North Miami police officer shoots a black man lying on his back with his hands raised. The man is Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist. So far, this would seem to be an example of the all-too-common occurrence of racialized police violence in the contemporary United States. Yet next to Kinsey sits his…
Movements at War? Disability and Anti-occupation Activism in Israel
Disability Incarcerated
Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding
An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Disability
Disability and social theory
DAN, GOODLEY, BILL, HUGHES, and LENNARD, DAVIS, , 2012, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 348 pp, ISBN 978-0230243255, £57.00 (hardback) The anthology Disability and social theory concerns itself wi
Disabling Incarceration
This article suggests the merits of conceptualizing incarceration as including institutionalization in a wide variety of enclosed settings, including prisons, jails, institutions for the intellectually disabled, treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals. Such formulations conceptualize incarceration as a continuum and a multi-faceted phenomenon. This article will highlight the importance of moving beyond analogies between criminalization, inst…
Sign of our times? Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access
The International Symbol of Access (ISA), used in a variety of specific locations to represent purposely facilitated access, has become ubiquitous throughout the world within just a few decades. Found wherever people move in physical space and needing to navigate environmental barriers, this symbol is among the most widely recognized representations of disability. While it provides daily interactions with issues of accessibility and disability, i…
Disability Incarcerated
Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding
Dis-epistemologies of Abolition
Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable
The United States relies on carceralism—mass incarceration and institutionalization, surveillance and control—for its continued operation. The criminalization of difference, particularly in relation to race, disability and queerness, renders certain people as perpetually subject to state violence due to their perceived unruliness. This article relies on two case studies, in Toledo, Ohio and Brooklyn, New York to question the construction and co-o…
Mad Futures
Mad Futures:Affect/Theory/Violence Tanja Aho (bio), Liat Ben-Moshe (bio), and Leon J. Hilton (bio) The Affect of Violence In the summer of 2016 a North Miami police officer shoots a black man lying on his back with his hands raised. The man is Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist. So far, this would seem to be an example of the all-too-common occurrence of racialized police violence in the contemporary United States. Yet next to Kinsey sits his…
Why prisons are not “The New Asylums”
This paper will offer an antidote to the axiom that jails and prisons are becoming “the new asylums” in the U.S. Without disregarding the reality of having disproportioned numbers of people with disabilities (psychiatric, cognitive, learning disabilities in particular) in jails and prisons, I will caution against declarations that prisons are becoming “the new asylums” in the U.S. and offer a more nuanced explanation that incorporates perspective…
An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Disability
Disabling Incarceration
This article suggests the merits of conceptualizing incarceration as including institutionalization in a wide variety of enclosed settings, including prisons, jails, institutions for the intellectually disabled, treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals. Such formulations conceptualize incarceration as a continuum and a multi-faceted phenomenon. This article will highlight the importance of moving beyond analogies between criminalization, inst…
Sign of our times? Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access
The International Symbol of Access (ISA), used in a variety of specific locations to represent purposely facilitated access, has become ubiquitous throughout the world within just a few decades. Found wherever people move in physical space and needing to navigate environmental barriers, this symbol is among the most widely recognized representations of disability. While it provides daily interactions with issues of accessibility and disability, i…
The State of (Intersectional Critique of) State Violence
The State of (Intersectional Critique of) State Violence1 Liat Ben-Moshe (bio) Andrea J. Ritchie's Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color, Boston: Beacon Press, 2017 Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017 As I write this review in April 2018, the U.S. just dropped bombs over Syria, Israel used lethal force in countering protests in Gaza resulti…
Sign of our times? Revis(it)ing the International Symbol of Access
The International Symbol of Access (ISA), used in a variety of specific locations to represent purposely facilitated access, has become ubiquitous throughout the world within just a few decades. Found wherever people move in physical space and needing to navigate environmental barriers, this symbol is among the most widely recognized representations of disability. While it provides daily interactions with issues of accessibility and disability, i…
Disability and social theory
DAN, GOODLEY, BILL, HUGHES, and LENNARD, DAVIS, , 2012, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 348 pp, ISBN 978-0230243255, £57.00 (hardback) The anthology Disability and social theory concerns itself wi
Disabling Incarceration
This article suggests the merits of conceptualizing incarceration as including institutionalization in a wide variety of enclosed settings, including prisons, jails, institutions for the intellectually disabled, treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals. Such formulations conceptualize incarceration as a continuum and a multi-faceted phenomenon. This article will highlight the importance of moving beyond analogies between criminalization, inst…
Disability Incarcerated
Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding
An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Disability
Movements at War? Disability and Anti-occupation Activism in Israel
Why prisons are not “The New Asylums”
This paper will offer an antidote to the axiom that jails and prisons are becoming “the new asylums” in the U.S. Without disregarding the reality of having disproportioned numbers of people with disabilities (psychiatric, cognitive, learning disabilities in particular) in jails and prisons, I will caution against declarations that prisons are becoming “the new asylums” in the U.S. and offer a more nuanced explanation that incorporates perspective…
Mad Futures
Mad Futures:Affect/Theory/Violence Tanja Aho (bio), Liat Ben-Moshe (bio), and Leon J. Hilton (bio) The Affect of Violence In the summer of 2016 a North Miami police officer shoots a black man lying on his back with his hands raised. The man is Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist. So far, this would seem to be an example of the all-too-common occurrence of racialized police violence in the contemporary United States. Yet next to Kinsey sits his…
Dis-orientation, dis-epistemology and abolition
What is the relation between knowledge and orientation? How does being disoriented lead one to new knowledge or/and to being humbled (tenderized) about not knowing? How can not knowing aid in liberatory struggles, in alleviating oppression or even in being in community with like-minded people in an ethical manner? These are some of the questions that Ami Harbin’s work “Disorientation and Moral Life” brought up for me and which I would like to exp…
Dis-epistemologies of Abolition
The State of (Intersectional Critique of) State Violence
The State of (Intersectional Critique of) State Violence1 Liat Ben-Moshe (bio) Andrea J. Ritchie's Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color, Boston: Beacon Press, 2017 Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017 As I write this review in April 2018, the U.S. just dropped bombs over Syria, Israel used lethal force in countering protests in Gaza resulti…
Decarcerating Disability
"Politics of (En)closure: Deinstitutionalization, Disability, and Prison Abolition argues that a complex understanding of disability is fundamental to an understanding of decarceration. Many argue that the rise of deinstitutionalization led directly to the rise of imprisonment. Liat Ben-Moshe complicates this narrative by looking closely at how people of color and disabled people are pathologized as well as how profit plays a roll in caring for "…
Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable
The United States relies on carceralism—mass incarceration and institutionalization, surveillance and control—for its continued operation. The criminalization of difference, particularly in relation to race, disability and queerness, renders certain people as perpetually subject to state violence due to their perceived unruliness. This article relies on two case studies, in Toledo, Ohio and Brooklyn, New York to question the construction and co-o…
Challenge to What Is
This collection could not have come in a more prescient time. As the editors suggest, "The present volume is, at once, then, a historical archive, a conceptual challenge, and a tactical tool kit." 1 I will focus my comments on some tactical questions regarding the effect and aftermath of the GIP investigation on the intolerability of incarceration. What effect did it have on those incarcerated? On prison conditions? On the rationale of confinemen…
Depathologization as Healing Justice
Healing justice, as with disability justice, and transformative justice/abolition, has largely been a queer-, trans-, woman of color-led intervention into the rights-based, reform-based, and neo/liberal agendas of whitestream movements. We see each of these movements for justice as deeply intertwined with the others, where interdependence and leaving no one behind are key commitments that are not compatible with the individualism of rights and re…
Sociology (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Prison (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)