Part I. Prisons and racism -- Prison abolitionism and critical race theory / Fernando Avila and Jessica Bundy -- Racial innocence, liberal reformism, and immigration detention : toward a politics of abolition / Sarah Turnbull -- The thin blue line between protection and persecution : policing LGBTQ2S refugees in Canada / Alexa Degagne and Megan Gaucher -- Abolishing innocence : disrupting the racist / ableist pathologies of childhood / Liat Ben-Moshe, Nirmala Erevelles and Erica R. Meiners -- Part II. Prisons and settler colonialism -- Aan yatx'u saani! decolonial meditations on building abolition / Sol Neely -- Settler colonialism, incarceration, and the abolitionist imperative : lessons from an Australian youth detention center / Lisa Guenther -- Settler colonialism, anti-colonial theory, and "indigenized" prisons for Indigenous women / Danielle Bird (Nehiyaw) -- "The women that died in there, that's all I could think of" : the P4W Memorial Collective and garden initiative / Isabel Scheuneman Scott, Fran Chaisson and Bobbie Kidd -- Part III. Anti-carceral feminisms -- Starting with life : murder sentencing and feminist prison abolitionist praxis / Debra Parkes -- Looking from northwest to southeast : feminist carceralism, gender equality and global responses to gender-based violence / Dawn Moore and Vered Ben-David -- Remembering Carol Smart : tensions between feminism, victims' rights and abolitionism / Jennifer M. Kilty and Katarina Bogosavljevic -- Carceral enjoyments and killjoying the social life of social death / Andrew Dilts -- Part IV. Multispecies carceralities -- The "carceral enjoyments" of animal protection / Kelly Struthers Montford and Eva Kasprzycka -- Carceral canines : racial terror and animal abuse from slave hounds to police dogs / Paula Cepeda Gallo and Chloe Taylor -- Trauma as a Mobius strip : PTSD, animal research, and the Oak Ridge prisoner experiments / Lauren Corman -- Coexistence as resistance : humans and non-human animals in carceral settings / Calvin John Smiley -- Afterword : building abolition in pandemic times / Justin Piche.
Summary:
"Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition. Prison abolition is at once about the institution of the prison, and a broad, intersectional political project calling for the end of the social structured by settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and related oppressions. Beyond this, prison abolition is a constructive project that imagines and strives for a transformed world in which justice is not equated with punishment, and accountability is not equated with caging. Composed of sixteen chapters by an international team of scholars and activists, with a Foreword by Perry Zurn and an Afterword by Justin Piche, the book is divided into four themes: Prisons and Racism Prisons and Settler Colonialism Anti-Carceral Feminisms Multispecies Carceralities. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, and scholars working in the areas of Critical Prison Studies, Critical Criminology, Native Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Critical Animal Studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as, Feminist Legal Studies, Animal Law, Critical Disability Studies, Queer Theory, and Transnational Feminisms"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in penal abolition and transformative justice series
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