Liat Ben-Moshe

Liat Ben-Moshe is a disability scholar and assistant professor of criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ben-Moshe's work “has brought an intersectional disability studies approach to the phenomenon of mass incarceration and decarceration in the US”.

Presently, Ben-Moshe works as the Acting Graduate Director of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Her work seeks to see disability, “as a nuanced identity from which to understand how to live differently including re-evaluating criminal justice responses to harm”.

[3] Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts expands beyond strategies for compliance in the ADA and looks towards disability-inclusive pedagogy in university classrooms.

The book was edited by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, and Allison C. Carey, with a foreword by activist and philosopher Angela Davis.

In the book Ben-Moshe uses Michel Foucault's tactic to expand the concept of abolition using a genealogy of deinstitutionalization in the twentieth century.

In her book, Decarcerating Disability, Ben-Moshe explains how, “that abolition is a radical epistemology of knowing and unknowing.

[8] Ben-Moshe utilizes Michel Foucault's conception of genealogy to analyze the history of deinstitutionalization and the power structures that influenced it.

[8] In her works Ben-Moshe examines the intersectional relationship between race, disability, and the prison industrial complex.

She connects the work of prison abolitionists to, “begin understanding the ways in which criminalizing entails the construction of both race (especially blackness) and disability (especially mental difference) as dangerous”.

Periscope: Social Text Online (part of the forum “Jasbir Puar: From Terrorist Assemblages to The Right to Maim”).