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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 69–92.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-industrial complex, this essay makes visible emergent lines and arrangements of power and resistance that inhibit and build abolition. 41. Illinois Department of Corrections, “Careers at IDOC.” 42. Many California prisons subsequently adopted Santa Rita's technological advances and “green...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 131–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., mobilize large numbers of people to participate in movements actively rather than solely participating online or through voting, and offer spaces to practice new social relations. The article looks at examples from efforts for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, disaster relief, and other...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 157–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and multispecies abolition democracy. The importance of radical, multi-issue politics and cross-movement solidarities is also given serious attention. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 environmental justice climate justice...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 77–90.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Elyx Desloover; Marquis Bey Abstract Marquis Bey's Black Trans Feminism (2022) puts forth radical gender abolition as the necessary actualization of blackness and transness toward hopeful world de/construction. An intentional, ongoing work of stepping aside from expected regimes replaces material...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 89–98.
Published: 01 June 2024
... to the intersecting climate crises on different scales, from the local to the global. The abolition of fossil capital through the building of counterpower —in all senses of that term—should be a key strategic priority of the global movement for ecosocialism. The article discusses the Public Power NY campaign, which...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 29–65.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Kris Manjapra In 2015 the British government finally finished paying off the Slavery Abolition Act loan. For 180 years it had serviced debt created by the massive public borrowing of 1835, which was used to compensate British slave owners for the loss of their “slave property” during emancipation...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 1–34.
Published: 01 September 2023
... institutions are needed to fully achieve abolition—thus abolition democracy.” 75 Precisely because abolitionism “is not only, or not even primarily, about abolition as a negative process of tearing down, but it is also about building up, about creating new institutions,” 76 the work of border...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 1–34.
Published: 01 June 2024
... California . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2007 . Gilmore Ruth Wilson , and Lamber Léopold . “ Making Abolition Geography in California's Central Valley .” Funambulist , December 20 , 2018 . https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/21-space-activism/interview-making-abolition...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 85–107.
Published: 01 December 2015
...-3315790  © 2016 Duke University Press 8 5 tradiction, to Saidiya Hartman’s critique in Scenes of Subjection (1997), that abolition and political emancipation were inadequate to repair the catastrophes of nineteenth-century slavery: the violence...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 101–115.
Published: 01 June 2004
.... Perhaps there is another relation between the University and the Prison—beyond simple opposi- tion or family resemblance—that the Undercommons reserves as the object and inhabitation of another abolitionism. The University and the Undercommons 113...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the abolition show was going up. . . . I was working with incarcerated minors all the time. My very well-meaning, liberal immediate supervisor thought it would be a brilliant idea, knowing my politics, for me to sit in on some sort of advisory committee for the abolition show. This was around the time...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 109–130.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Fall 2006 . “Wong Chin Foo's Periodical Writings and Chinese Exclusion.” Genre 39 : 83 – 105 . Hu-DeHart Evelyn . 1993 . “Chinese Coolie Labour in Cuba in the Nineteenth Century: Free Labour or Neo-slavery?” Slavery and Abolition 14 , no. 4 : 67 – 86 . Hu-DeHart Evelyn...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2015
... had a fire-arm. —Rev. John T. Costin, Macon, Georgia, 25 July 1867 I look at black political formations after abolition across nine of the former Confederate states in my project “Fugitive Freedoms: A Race, Politics and Black...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., it draws on affect theory, new materialisms, and work in decolonial and critical ethnic studies to valorize otherwise marginal, bewildering, errant educational encounters that are always taking place in the undergrowth of the university. the university education abolition decolonization ecology...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2024
... , 2019 . Gilmore Ruth Wilson . Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation. New York : Verso Books , 2022 . Gilmore Ruth Wilson . “ Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence .” In Futures of Black Radicalism , edited by Johnson Gaye Theresa and Alex Lubin, 225...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 1–36.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Gilmore has called “abolition geography”: the “capacity to recognize . . . immanent possibility as we select and reselect liberatory lineages” from the infrastructures that engulf us. 49 Saffin's own accounts of Adam allow us mediated glimpses not only into Adam's acts but also into the wider...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2019
... was captured, the nation received nearly eight hundred thousand illegally enslaved Africans. The trade’s definitive abolition in 1850 encouraged traffickers to adopt increasingly draconian measures. This ship was a prime example: in late 1855, over 450 people, twice as many as considered “minimally humane...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 27–53.
Published: 01 December 2021
... protests that decried anti-Black police brutality, affirmed that Black lives matter, and called for defunding police, if not complete police abolition. And yet, nowhere in Governor Anoatubby's statement did he acknowledge the persistent, militarized, and white supremacist violence targeting Black lives...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 93–123.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of resistance. The abolitionist movement assisted enslaved peoples’ resistance, leading to the Civil War. During the war, Trinity College supported the Confederacy and organized the Trinity Guard to defend the Confederacy. After the formal abolition of slavery, African Americans led the efforts...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 95–110.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., that abolition as Jared Sexton rightly says is yet to come. And we might add that this abolition requires the abolishment of logistics which in its flows created a people without standing anywhere. We act in abolition not for a ground to stand on but for groundations beyond standing. Modern logistics, with its...