How to Lose the Hounds

Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing

Celeste Winston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478025313 (ISBN)

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In How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage-the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery-as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day. Tracing the long and ongoing historical geography of Black freedom struggles in the face of anti-Black police violence in these communities, Winston shows how marronage provides critical lessons for reimagining public safety and community well-being. These freedom struggles take place in what Winston calls maroon geographies-sites of flight from slavery and the spaces of freedom produced in multigenerational Black communities. Maroon geographies constitute part of a Black placemaking tradition that asserts life-affirming forms of community. Winston contends that maroon geographies operate as a central method of Black flight, holding ground, and constructing places of freedom in ways that imagine and plan a world beyond policing.

Celeste Winston is Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xiii
Introduction 1
1. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology 21
2. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies 37
3. Maroon Justice 65
4. Community beyond Policing 87
5. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy 109
Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore 129
Notes 133
References 139
Index 159

Erscheinungsdatum	09.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Errantries
Zusatzinfo	19 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478025313 / 9781478025313
Zustand	Neuware