Practicing new worlds : abolition and emergent strategies / Andrea J. Ritchie ; foreword by Alexis Pauline Gumbs ; introduction by adrienne maree brown.
Publisher:
AK Press,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xix, 316 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Introduction -- Lisa Bates -- Introduction / adrienne maree brown -- Introduction -- Visionary practice : surfacing. Visionary practice : glimpses of emergent strategies -- What is abolition? -- Visionary practice : to build a future without police and prisons, we have to imagine it first / Walidah Imarisha -- What are emergent strategies? -- Emergent strategies and abolition -- Abolition is fractal -- Visionary practice : relationships evolving possibilities -- Visionary practice : young women's empowerment project -- Abolition is decentralized and rooted in interdependence -- Abolition is adaptive and intentional -- Abolition is nonlinear and iterative -- Visionary practice : harm free zones -- Visionary practice : freedom square -- Abolition is cooperative and focused on collective sustainability -- Abolition builds resilience and fosters transformation -- Visionary practice : tending the acre / Shawn Taylor -- Visionary practice : albina zone / Lisa Bates -- Abolition creates more possibilities (that we can't currently imagine) -- A note on wave-particle duality -- Practice (a conclusion) -- Visionary practice : pandowrimo -- Visionary practice : surfacing.
Summary:
"Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive. Drawing on decades of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy advocate, and litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne maree brown in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Ritchie invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy change to create more possibilities for survival and resistance in the midst of the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism--and the cataclysms to come. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist practices and interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting state violence, building networks to support people in need of abortion care, and nurturing organizations and convergences that can grow transformative cities and movements, Practicing New Worlds takes readers on a journey of learning, unlearning, experimentation, and imagination to dream the worlds we long for into being"-- Amazon.com.
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