How to Abolish Prisons (eBook)

Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment

Rachel Herzing, Justin Piché (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
979-8-88890-102-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piche reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.Drawing on extensive interviews with abolitionist crews all over North America, Herzing and Piche provide a collective reconstruction of what the grassroots movement to abolish prisons actually is, what initiatives it has launched, how it organizes itself, and how its protagonists build the day-to-day practice of politics. Readers sit in on the Winnipeg rideshares of Bar None and the meetings of the Chicago Community Bail Fund as they assess the utility of politicized mutual aid. They follow the campaigns and coalitions of Critical Resistance in Oakland and San Francisco and Survived and Punished in New York City, and learn about the prisoner correspondence projects that keep activists behind bars and outside them in constant coordination.Abolitionist campaigns are constructing on-the-ground initiatives across North America to deconstruct carceral society and build resistant communities.Through the words, deeds, and personalities of this beautifully peopled movement, How to Abolish Prisons emerges as a stunning snapshot of a movement's thinking in motion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2024
• Vorwort: Mariame Kaba
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activist handbook • Angela Davis • defund the police • how to • mariame kaba • Mass Incarceration • police abolition • prison abolition • prison abolition, mariame kaba, prison reform, mass incarceration, the new jim crow, activist handbook, how to, police abolition, defund the police, ruth wilson gilmore, angela davis, social movements, social movement studies, • Prison Reform • ruth Wilson Gilmore • Social Movements • social movement studies, • The New Jim Crow
• ISBN-13: 979-8-88890-102-1 / 9798888901021