Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Series Editors’ Foreword
Introduction: Doing Abolition
	References
Part I Prisons and Racism
	1 Prison Abolitionism and Critical Race Theory
		Critical Race Theory
		Prison Abolitionism Meets Critical Race Theory: Situating Punishment
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2 Racial Innocence, Liberal Reformism, and Immigration Detention: Toward a Politics of Abolition
		Race, Racisms, and Immigration Detention
		Racial Innocence and Immigration Detention
		Conclusion: Toward a Politics of Abolition
		Notes
		Acknowledgement
		References
	3 The Thin Blue Line Between Protection and Persecution: Policing LGBTQ2S Refugees in Canada
		Police Buttressing the Colonial Canadian State Project
		“Disorder Policing” and the Surveillance of LGBTQ2S Precarious Citizens and Non-Citizens
		Two Interviews on Exporting Police Racism and Anti-LGBTQ2S Oppression
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	4 Abolishing Innocence: Disrupting the Racist/Ableist Pathologies of Childhood
		Childhood, Carceral Logics and the Paradox of Innocence
		The Ableist Politics of Innocent Childhoods
		(Non)innocence and Race/Ability Pathologies in Public Education
		Abolition Beyond Innocence
		References
Part II Prisons and Settler Colonialism
	5 Aan Yátx’u Sáani!: Decolonial Meditations on Building Abolition
		Prologue: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Building Abolition on Lingít Aaní
		Excursus: A Brief History of the Flying University
		Meditation One: Staging Sites of Decolonial Intervention in a State of War
			State of War: From a Theory of Sovereignty to a Theory of Domination
		Meditation Two: Interpreting the War Beneath Peace
		Excursus: Preface From Flying in Shackles, a Publication of the Flying University
		Epilogue: Abolitionism and Restoring the Logic of the Gift
		Notes
		Dedication
		References
	6 Settler Colonialism, Incarceration, and the Abolitionist Imperative: Lessons From an Australian Youth Detention Center
		Settler Colonialism and the (Carceral) Elimination of the Native
		Notes
		References
	7 Settler Colonialism, Anti-Colonial Theory, and “Indigenized” Prisons for Indigenous Women
		Notes
		References
	8 “The Women That Died in There, That’s All I Could Think of”: The P4W Memorial Collective and Garden Initiative
		Brief History of P4W
		Conversation With Fran and Bobbie
		Closing Remarks
		Notes
		References
Part III Anti-carceral Feminisms
	9 Starting With Life: Murder Sentencing and Feminist Prison Abolitionist Praxis
		Anti-carceral Feminism and the New Prison Abolitionism
		Starting With Who?
		Why Center Lifers? Why Start With Abolishing Life Sentences?
			a. on Using State Violence to Respond to Interpersonal Violence
			b. on Who Bears the Brunt of These Sentence
			c. on What Our Movement Gains By Centering Lifers
			d. on What We Might Achieve By Centering Lifers
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	10 Looking From Northwest to Southeast: Feminist Carceralism, Gender Equality and Global Responses to Gender-Based Violence
		Toward an Anti-Carceral Political Economy of GBV
		References
	11 Remembering Carol Smart: Tensions Between Feminism, Victims’ Rights and Abolitionism
		Carceral Feminism and the Victims’ Rights Movement
		The Affective Economy of Punishment
		Carol Smart’s Feminist Legacy and the Pursuit of a More Complex Affective Orientation
		Abolitionist Lessons for and From the Feminist Killjoy
		Notes
		References
	12 Carceral Enjoyments and Killjoying the Social Life of Social Death
		Introduction: “No Prison Is Safe for No One”
		From Civil to Social Death/from Slavery to Incarceration
		The Whiteness of Police/the Whiteness of Property
		“The Other Side of Social Death”/carceral Enjo
		Abolitionist Killjoys
		Conclusion: “Keep It, Spread It, or do What You Want With It…”
		Notes
		References
Part IV Multispecies Carceralities
	13 The “Carceral Enjoyments” of Animal Protection
		Carceral Animal Protection
		Animal Protection’s Propensity for Social Killing
		Symbolic “Justice” and Racial Control
		The Epistemological Ignorance of Carceral Enjoyments
		Companion Animals as White Property
		Parasitic Life and Killjoying’s Redirection of Emotions
		Conclusions: Toward a Creaturely Politics of Abolition
		Notes
		References
	14 Carceral Canines: Racial Terror and Animal Abuse From Slave Hounds to Police Dogs
		Slavery Hounds
		Nazi Dogs
		Hunting and Haunting as Police Ethos
		Canine Terror in the Time of BLM
		Police Dogs and the Indoctrinating of Children
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgement
		References
	15 Trauma as a Möbius Strip: PTSD, Animal Research, and the Oak Ridge Prisoner Experiments
		Degradation by Design
		Animal Experimentation
		Taxonomies of Power
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	16 Coexistence as Resistance: Humans and Non-Human Animals in Carceral Settings
		Introduction
		Meaning, Symbiosis, and Resistance
			Human-animal Programs
			Human-animal Performance
			Human-animal Partnership
		Solitary Confinement
		Interaction in Carceral Spaces
			Fiction
			Non-fiction
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Afterword: Building Abolition in Pandemic Times
		References
Index