A new book exploring the incarceration of those with disabilities, co-edited by 91ɫ social work Professor Chris Chapman, will launch Friday.
(Palgrave Macmillan) will launch Nov. 21, from 6 to 8pm, at OISE Library, 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto.
The launch will featuretalks by the book's co-editors Professor Liat Ben-Moshe of the University of Toledo’s Disability Studies program, sociology Professor Allison C. Carey of Shippensburg University andChapman, a professor in 91ɫ’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.Several other local contributors to the book will also discuss their work: Jiji Voronka, Shaista Patel, Syrus Marcus Ware and Erick Fabris.
Disability Incarceratedis a collection of interdisciplinary papers examining the incarceration and segregation of disabled people in North America, as well as how disability is relevant to the confinement and control of various bodies and identities(see article July 28).
The book has several 91ɫ contributors, including critical disability studies Professor Geoffrey Reaume who wrote the chapter “Eugen
ics Incarceration and Expulsion: Daniel G. and Andrew T.'s Deportation from 1928 Toronto, Canada.” Ware, who will begin his PhD in environmental studies at 91ɫ in September, co-authored “It Can't be Fixed Because It's Not Broken: Racism and Disability in the Prison Industrial Complex” with Joan Ruzsa and Giselle Dias. 91ɫ alumna Katie Aubrecht (MA ’07) co-wrote “Chemical Constraint: Experiences of Psychiatric Coercion, Restraint, and Detention as Carceratory Techniques” with Fabris.
Chapman’s research revolves around the histories, rationales and practices of the “helping professions” by mobilizing perspectives of those who have been subjected to them, drawing on disability studies, critical race theory, anti-colonial studies, prison abolitionist, anti-capitalist, queer and feminist critiques of social services.