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... violent colonial institutions. An abolition university can be one such abolitionist step. As Boggs and her coauthors propose, we want to lean into constructive abolitionism and “highlight spaces of organizing, resistance, subversion, and accumulation toward non-capitalist ends within, through...

... in the light of its convergence with abolition. [email protected] © 2022 Joseph Albernaz 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). general strike Robert Wedderburn slavery revolution proletariat anarchism Caribbean...

... of the postapartheid state and university could have—should have—acted otherwise. This proposal is called abolition pedagogy , a refusal of the long-standing relationship between education and violence, and a reading of the pedagogic labor involved in antiviolence work. In the midst of the recent student protests...

... and forge ersatz national identity are tied to this trail of blood and flesh, the blade drawn across the land, water, and nonwhite bodies, which indicates its own failed bid to be “human.” Border abolition is a call to reconfigure these violent conditions away from the Western liberal human and its order...

...). collective memory prison abolition decolonization critical phenomenology The Kingston Prison for Women (P4W) was the first and only federal prison for women in Canada from 1934 until the year 2000. Living conditions at P4W were harsh, even by prison standards. Just a few years after the prison...

...—a roadmap, a clue—to seeing and doing things differently? The fronteristxs collective is concerned with what is the “not yet” on the horizon of the abolition movement, meaning we interrogate the space between the liberal discourse of “equality” and the conservative discourse of an “eye for an eye.” We...

... Loick 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). counter-communities G. W. F. Hegel Karl Marx domination and servitude ethical life abolition In her book A Paradise Built in Hell , journalist and essayist Rebecca...

.... Figure 3. Steep slopes of the inter-Andean mountain valleys of Ayopaya offered routes of escape from bonded labor and from the master’s rapacious dogs. Landscapes that were weaponized by hacienda masters could be cultivated to new ends. Before hacienda abolition, Santos explained, masters...

..., producing new social and material conditions for change. © 2020 Blu Buchanan and Amara Miller 2020 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). policing militarization student movement abolition critical university studies...

... , and Sheikh Shela . “ The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions; Introduction .” Third Text 32 , nos. 2–3 ( 2018 ): 163 – 75 . Gumbs Alexis P. “ Freedom Seeds: Growing Abolition in Durham, North Carolina .” In Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle...

... . For a brilliant analysis of surveillance, policing, and imprisonment in the racist welfare system, see Roberts, Shattered Bonds , and her most recent intervention, calling for an abolition of the current welfare system, Torn Apart . 13. Natalia Santarelli and Claudia Anzorena write about the history...

... have moved away from fighting for temporary relief from deportation or for the right to citizenship, when it is clear that this will not protect them, just as it has not protected Black citizens killed at the hands of the police. They are fighting instead for structural transformation; for abolition...

... that has been explored by historians. 28 But connecting their rebellions—and their forms—to a globalizing political economy centered on New World slavery, European industrial production, and abolitionism still requires more research and theoretical development of apposite concepts, if we...

... of violence and a critique or even abolition of, rather than an adherence to, the law. Benjamin's example can be further clarified by the invocation of another historical instance in which the exercise of a legally acknowledged right could be regarded as violent by the state. The case of Northern Ireland...

..., regardless of how remote the realization of any alternative might seem. That is, Davis advocates in her soft aesthetics on behalf of art that shows the future more than just the present—that is, historical possibilities (e.g., abolition of prisons) more than just historical realities (e.g., mass...

... to the end. This predation on the wombs of women of color continued after the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery, with the forced migration of millions of indentured workers for European imperialist powers. Both in this context and in the context of the slave trade, the number of men thrown...

... powers into the self-ownership of the previously dominated people. 66 Emancipation in liberal societies, both in the case of the abolition of slavery and in women's liberation, took the form of the legal attribution of self-ownership. The formerly dominated groups gained rights but no material...

... organizing, and political commitments that place demilitarizing the university and the abolition of white supremacist beliefs at the top of the list of political priorities. And while COVID-19 has created uncertainty, these student activists know that the anticolonial and antiracist histories from which...

... works.” 6 This is the general law that Said devises for analyzing thought. It is premised on the abolition of the historical class character of ideas, and accordingly on the abolition of the movement of struggle and the contradiction between ideas. For Said, the intellectual sphere in any given...

... not officially count as members of the demos. Thus border solidarity not only demands the abolition of border regimes as they currently operate; it also prefigures new constituencies and new territories that, though fragile and provisional, show us a world that could be. 1. See the New Sanctuary...