Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms

Whalley, Elizabeth; Hackett, Colleen

doi:10.1080/10282580.2017.1383762

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“…Victoria Law discusses the term in her 2014 article in Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/. More recently Whalley and Hackett (2017). 3.…”

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Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable

Rodriguez

Ben‐Moshe

Rakes

2020

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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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-optation of vulnerability by state agents and focus on interrelated instances of state violence done under the guise of protectionism of and from unruly subjects. We then discuss the response to these instances of violence- from the state in the form of carceral ableism and sanism, and from local activists trying to navigate the shifting contours of protectionist violence by enacting queer transformative justice.

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“…Victoria Law discusses the term in her 2014 article in Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/. More recently Whalley and Hackett (2017). 3.…”

Section: Declaration Of Conflicting Interestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable

Rodriguez

Ben‐Moshe

Rakes

2020

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…In contrast to intersectional feminism, carceral feminist agendas use of a rhetoric of ‘sameness’ in understanding violence (Price, 2012). Carceral feminist organizations ignore how their solutions to violence can create additional violences in marginalized victims’ lives and facilitate the racialized oppression of the carceral state (Whalley & Hackett, 2017). In favor of white women’s liberal gains, women of color, indigenous women, homeless women, and transwomen are dismissed (Davis, 1981; Deer, 2015; Spade, 2013).…”

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“…Carceral feminism is understood as being contradictory to intersectional feminisms (Whalley & Hackett, 2017). In Whittier’s (2016) study of the discourse used during congressional hearings on VAWA, she determined that while both carceral and intersectional feminisms were employed, the individualization of gender violence led to outcomes that were both carceral and noncarceral, but not intersectional.…”

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The “Bait and Switch” of Sexual Assault Response: Expanded Carceral Power at a Rape Crisis Center

Whalley

2019

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Rape crisis centers (RCCs) were established during the mainstream anti-rape movement in the United States during the 1970s. In the decades that followed, RCCs began to depend on governmental grants to stay open, shifting the antagonistic relationship that existed between many RCCs and state structures. Previous research has conceptualized this RCC institutionalization as a reluctant concession requisite to the continuation of victim services and the anti-rape movement. This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research and 40 interviews at a United States RCC to illustrate how institutionalization facilitated one RCC’s complicity in the expansion of the carceral state. I propose the transformation of this RCC illuminates a sexual assault response “bait and switch” that serves carceral agendas. I reach this conclusion using data drawn from three themes: (1) the outsourcing of the hotline and conversion to criminal-legal victim services, (2) criminal-legal integration that did not expand the influence of the RCC, and (3) the facilitation of the criminalization of victims through a process of net widening. Building from previous research, these findings document the result of criminal-legal integration at one RCC: the expansion of the carceral state into the center, to the detriment of victims and efforts to end sexual assault.

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“…Without going into the detail in this article, such assertions are empirically, conceptually, and ethically problematic. Moreover, by promoting recourse to punishing offenders (or perpetrators as the language goes), such doctrines contribute to punitive and carceral responses to social problems [23]. In fact, understanding domestic violence as simply a manifestation of the patriarchy is as reductionist and one-dimensional as blaming Muslim neighbours for the lack of good jobs in a decaying community [24].…”

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‘You Can’t Say That!’: Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy

Fenton

Smith

2019

Societies

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Recent years have witnessed an eruption of what have been termed culture wars, often converging around the messier aspects of interpersonal relationships and corresponding identity issues that are complex, sensitive, and contested. These are emotive topics that are often colonised by activist groups, and consequently have become enveloped in particular regimes of truth and assertive identity politics. They are often also, by their nature, the kind of issues that are central to social work practice. This can lead to pressure on social workers and social work students to think that these orthodoxies ought to underpin and define the profession, which in turn can lead to the silencing of alternative opinions and the closing down of dissent. This article seeks to locate identity politics in a political and cultural context. It goes on to set out classic arguments for free speech, viewpoint diversity, and for the need for social work to embrace and engage with such. It explores the notion that the closing down of debate about contentious issues, the disincentives that exist to expressing controversial opinions, and the uncritical adoption of ideological orthodoxies work against the development of the critical thinking skills that are essential for social work practice.

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Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms

Cited by 63 publications

References 49 publications

Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable

Carceral protectionism and the perpetually (in)vulnerable

The “Bait and Switch” of Sexual Assault Response: Expanded Carceral Power at a Rape Crisis Center

‘You Can’t Say That!’: Critical Thinking, Identity Politics, and the Social Work Academy

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