Resisting carceral violence : women's imprisonment and the politics of abolition /

Resisting carceral violence : women's imprisonment and the politics of abolition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Carlton, Bree, author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Women prisoners -- Abuse of -- Australia -- Victoria.
Prisons -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Women prisoners -- Australia -- Victoria -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women prisoners -- Violence against -- Australia -- Victoria.
Feminism -- Australia -- Victoria.
Feminist criminology.
Feminism.
Feminist criminology.
Prisons.
Women prisoners -- Abuse of.
Women prisoners -- Social conditions.
Victoria.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12455817
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Russell, Emma K., 1986- author.
ISBN:3030016951
9783030016951
3030016943
9783030016944
Notes:Includes index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 30, 2019).
Summary:This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis. Through in-depth historical research conducted in the Australian state of Victoria that spans the 1980s and 1990s, the authors uncover how incarcerated women have worked productively with feminist activists and community coalitions to expose, critique and resist the conditions and harms of their confinement. Resisting Carceral Violence tells the story of how activists, through a combination of creative direct actions, reformist lobbying and legal challenges, forged an anti-carceral feminist movement that traversed the prison walls. This powerful history provides vital lessons for service providers, social justice advocates and campaigners, academics and students concerned with the violence of incarceration. It calls for a willingness to look beyond the prison and instead embrace creative solutions to broader structural inequalities and social harm.
Other form:Print version: Carlton, Bree. Resisting carceral violence. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 3030016943 9783030016944
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; Timeline of Key Events in Women's Imprisonment in Victoria; Part I Carceral Violence and Official Responses; 1 Introduction; From Resistance and Reformism to Expansion; Resisting Carceral Violence: Abolitionism and the Fraught Position and Role of Reform; Anti-carceral Feminism and Inside-Out Organising; Excavating the Activist Archive; Chapter Outline; References; 2 Resisting Carceral Violence from the Inside Out; Anti-carceral Feminist Activism and Imprisoned Expertise and Resistance; Managing Resistance: Administrative Segregation
  • G Division, HM PentridgeEscalating Systemic Violence, Official Impunity and Denial; Karen Watson's Death; The Politics of Inside-Out Movement Building; Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company: Turning the Women's Prison Inside Out; Conclusion; References; 3 Official Responses to Carceral Violence and the Limits of Reform; Inside-Out Resistance and the Drivers of Official Reform Responses in Victoria; The Agenda for Change; The Changing Agender Conference; The EOCV Barwon Prison Inquiry; Conclusion; References; Part II Anti-carceral Geographies of Resistance
  • 4 Women Against Prison: Anti-carceral Feminist Critiques of the PrisonThe Formation of WAP; The Personal and the Political in WAP's Organising; Conceptualising a Continuum of Control; 'We Think Prison Is Violence'; Anti-Violence Feminism and the Question of Imprisonment; An Abolitionist Vision and Decarceration Strategy; Conclusion; References; 5 The Fairlea Wring Outs: Confronting the Prison Wall; Organising the Wring Outs; Proximity and Visuality at Carceral Sites; Creating a Visible Anti-carceral Feminist Presence; Sonic Protest: Resistant Radio, Noise and Music
  • Breaching the Carceral BoundaryConclusion; References; 6 The 'Save Fairlea' Vigil: Abolitionist Imaginings and Unexpected Outcomes; The Aims of the Vigil; Documenting Activist History: The Vigil Diaries; Bearing Witness and Building Solidarity; Visibility and Creativity: Protests at the Fairlea Gates; Collective Imaginings: 'Decarcerating Minds'; Confused 'Victory': Taking Stock in the Vigil Aftermath; Conclusion; References; Part III Consolidation and Expansion; 7 The Privatisation Era; The New Women's Prison: MWCC; Resistance to the 'Privatisation of Information' and Its Impacts
  • The Kennett Era: Privatisation, 'Law and Order' and Carceral ExpansionPolitical Economies of Punishment and the 'Rightful' Role of Government; Carceral Violence Under a Privatised Regime; Conclusion: The Legacy of the Privatisation Era; References; 8 Conclusion; The Contemporary Political Landscape of Women's Imprisonment; Reform and Its Relationship to Abolitionist Politics and Movements; The Legacies of Inside-Out Movements and Anti-carceral Feminism; References; Index

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