Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice (Routledge Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice)

__Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice__ explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition. Prison abolition is at once about the institution of the prison, and a broad, intersectional political project calling for the end of the social structured by settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and related oppressions. Beyond this, prison abolition is a constructive project that imagines and strives for a transformed world in which justice is not equated with punishment, and accountability is not equated with caging. Composed of sixteen chapters by an international team of scholars and activists, with a Foreword by Perry Zurn and an Afterword by Justin Piché, the book is divided into four themes: • Prisons and Racism • Prisons and Settler Colonialism • Anti-Carceral Feminisms • Multispecies Carceralities. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, and scholars working in the areas of Critical Prison Studies, Critical Criminology, Native Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Critical Animal Studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as, Feminist Legal Studies, Animal Law, Critical Disability Studies, Queer Theory, and Transnational Feminisms. Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition. Prison abolition is at once abou Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Information 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Contributors 11 Foreword 13 Series Editors’ Foreword 21 Introduction: Doing Abolition 26 References 33 Part I Prisons and Racism 38 1 Prison Abolitionism and Critical Race Theory 40 Critical Race Theory 41 Prison Abolitionism Meets Critical Race Theory: Situating Punishment 44 Conclusion 48 Notes 49 References 49 2 Racial Innocence, Liberal Reformism, and Immigration Detention: Toward a Politics of Abolition 54 Race, Racisms, and Immigration Detention 56 Racial Innocence and Immigration Detention 58 Conclusion: Toward a Politics of Abolition 62 Notes 64 Acknowledgement 64 References 65 3 The Thin Blue Line Between Protection and Persecution: Policing LGBTQ2S Refugees in Canada 68 Police Buttressing the Colonial Canadian State Project 70 “Disorder Policing” and the Surveillance of LGBTQ2S Precarious Citizens and Non-Citizens 72 Two Interviews on Exporting Police Racism and Anti-LGBTQ2S Oppression 75 Conclusion 78 Notes 79 References 80 4 Abolishing Innocence: Disrupting the Racist/Ableist Pathologies of Childhood 83 Childhood, Carceral Logics and the Paradox of Innocence 85 The Ableist Politics of Innocent Childhoods 86 (Non)innocence and Race/Ability Pathologies in Public Education 87 Abolition Beyond Innocence 89 References 90 Part II Prisons and Settler Colonialism 94 5 Aan Yátx’u Sáani!: Decolonial Meditations on Building Abolition 96 Prologue: Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Building Abolition on Lingít Aaní 96 Excursus: A Brief History of the Flying University 99 Meditation One: Staging Sites of Decolonial Intervention in a State of War 103 State of War: From a Theory of Sovereignty to a Theory of Domination 104 Meditation Two: Interpreting the War Beneath Peace 109 Excursus: Preface From Flying in Shackles, a Publication of the Flying University 112 Epilogue: Abolitionism and Restoring the Logic of the Gift 115 Notes 119 Dedication 120 References 120 6 Settler Colonialism, Incarceration, and the Abolitionist Imperative: Lessons From an Australian Youth Detention Center 122 Settler Colonialism and the (Carceral) Elimination of the Native 125 Notes 130 References 132 7 Settler Colonialism, Anti-Colonial Theory, and “Indigenized” Prisons for Indigenous Women 135 Notes 141 References 142 8 “The Women That Died in There, That’s All I Could Think of”: The P4W Memorial Collective and Garden Initiative 147 Brief History of P4W 148 Conversation With Fran and Bobbie 152 Closing Remarks 167 Notes 170 References 171 Part III Anti-carceral Feminisms 174 9 Starting With Life: Murder Sentencing and Feminist Prison Abolitionist Praxis 176 Anti-carceral Feminism and the New Prison Abolitionism 177 Starting With Who? 179 Why Center Lifers? Why Start With Abolishing Life Sentences? 180 a. on Using State Violence to Respond to Interpersonal Violence 180 b. on Who Bears the Brunt of These Sentence 182 c. on What Our Movement Gains By Centering Lifers 183 d. on What We Might Achieve By Centering Lifers 184 Conclusion 185 Notes 186 References 186 10 Looking From Northwest to Southeast: Feminist Carceralism, Gender Equality and Global Responses to Gender-Based Violence 190 Toward an Anti-Carceral Political Economy of GBV 203 References 207 11 Remembering Carol Smart: Tensions Between Feminism, Victims’ Rights and Abolitionism 209 Carceral Feminism and the Victims’ Rights Movement 210 The Affective Economy of Punishment 211 Carol Smart’s Feminist Legacy and the Pursuit of a More Complex Affective Orientation 213 Abolitionist Lessons for and From the Feminist Killjoy 214 Notes 217 References 218 12 Carceral Enjoyments and Killjoying the Social Life of Social Death 221 Introduction: “No Prison Is Safe for No One” 221 From Civil to Social Death/from Slavery to Incarceration 224 The Whiteness of Police/the Whiteness of Property 227 “The Other Side of Social Death”/carceral Enjo 230 Abolitionist Killjoys 235 Conclusion: “Keep It, Spread It, or do What You Want With It...” 238 Notes 240 References 243 Part IV Multispecies Carceralities 250 13 The “Carceral Enjoyments” of Animal Protection 252 Carceral Animal Protection 253 Animal Protection’s Propensity for Social Killing 255 Symbolic “Justice” and Racial Control 257 The Epistemological Ignorance of Carceral Enjoyments 261 Companion Animals as White Property 263 Parasitic Life and Killjoying’s Redirection of Emotions 265 Conclusions: Toward a Creaturely Politics of Abolition 268 Notes 270 References 270 14 Carceral Canines: Racial Terror and Animal Abuse From Slave Hounds to Police Dogs 273 Slavery Hounds 274 Nazi Dogs 277 Hunting and Haunting as Police Ethos 280 Canine Terror in the Time of BLM 283 Police Dogs and the Indoctrinating of Children 285 Conclusions 291 Acknowledgement 292 References 292 15 Trauma as a Möbius Strip: PTSD, Animal Research, and the Oak Ridge Prisoner Experiments 294 Degradation by Design 296 Animal Experimentation 299 Taxonomies of Power 304 Conclusion 308 Notes 309 References 309 16 Coexistence as Resistance: Humans and Non-Human Animals in Carceral Settings 311 Introduction 311 Meaning, Symbiosis, and Resistance 311 Human-animal Programs 312 Human-animal Performance 312 Human-animal Partnership 314 Solitary Confinement 314 Interaction in Carceral Spaces 316 Fiction 316 Non-fiction 317 Conclusion 320 Notes 321 References 321 Afterword: Building Abolition in Pandemic Times 323 References 329 Index 331 "Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition. Prison abolition is at once about the institution of the prison, and a broad, intersectional political project calling for the end of the social structured by settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and related oppressions. Beyond this, prison abolition is a constructive project that imagines and strives for a transformed world in which justice is not equated with punishment, and accountability is not equated with caging. Composed of sixteen chapters by an international team of scholars and activists, with a Foreword by Perry Zurn and an Afterword by Justin Piché, the book is divided into four themes: Prisons and Racism Prisons and Settler Colonialism Anti-Carceral Feminisms Multispecies Carceralities. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, and scholars working in the areas of Critical Prison Studies, Critical Criminology, Native Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Critical Animal Studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as, Feminist Legal Studies, Animal Law, Critical Disability Studies, Queer Theory, and Transnational Feminisms"-- Provided by publisher "Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition. Prison abolition is at once about the institution of the prison, and a broad, intersectional political project calling for the end of the social structured by settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and related oppressions. Beyond this, prison abolition is a constructive project that imagines and strives for a transformed world in which justice is not equated with punishment, and accountability is not equated with caging. Composed of sixteen chapters by an international team of scholars and activists, with a Foreword by Perry Zurn and an Afterword by Justin Piche, the book is divided into four themes: Prisons and Racism Prisons and Settler Colonialism Anti-Carceral Feminisms Multispecies Carceralities. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, and scholars working in the areas of Critical Prison Studies, Critical Criminology, Native Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Critical Animal Studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as, Feminist Legal Studies, Animal Law, Critical Disability Studies, Queer Theory, and Transnational Feminisms"--