Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-210) and index.
Contents:
Destruction: A Love Poem -- Introduction: Rememberings -- Toward a Practice of "Collectivity" -- Re-Collection as Memory -- Erasure and the Slow Work of Liberation -- No Justice on Stolen Land -- Personal Responsibility and Prison Abolition -- Abolitionist Intimacies -- Black Feminist Teachers -- Still Not Freedom -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary:
"In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing, borders, and through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as the prison visit, strip search, and managing community contact with incarcerated people. Despite this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation through the care work of building relationships and organizing with the people inside. Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love."-- Back cover.
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