As the powerful movement to abolish policing and imprisonment has come further into the spotlight, Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie remind us that abolition is not only the work of dismantling, but also of building and creating.
and many more. The authors emphasize that abolition is a collective project composed of many community-based campaigns, support networks, mutual aid groups and relationships, dedicated to “building flourishing communities for the long haul.”
The book urges us to remember that, as leading abolitionists like Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Mariame Kaba have always reminded us, abolition is not only the work of dismantling, but also of building and creating.I believe that Erica first introduced using that. It was really a touchstone for us throughout the project.
The prison-industrial complex is a global capitalist entity, and therefore, an approach that myopically focuses on the United States — which sometimes can be excused because of our international role in generating the practices of incarceration — is actually a problem in terms of our ability to address the fundamentally international problem of the prison-industrial complex.
The prison-industrial complex is a global capitalist entity [and] an approach that myopically focuses on the United States is actually a problem in terms of our ability to address [a] fundamentally international problem.We’re really indebted to Erica for insisting on this. It allowed us all to develop a kind of new philosophy of history, a new historiographical approach.
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