Abolition methodologies

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ID4475509
AutoresCarrie Chennault (0000-0002-4733-4134, Colorado State University, autor de correspondencia), Joshua Sbicca (0000-0002-8106-4713, Colorado State University)
Año2025
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas157-180
Fecha de publicación2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758231193718
OpenAlexW4403461848
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas61

Pervasive carceral conditions are being met with a range of efforts to make what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls "freedom as a place." What does it mean to create such places? We answer here by taking seriously the methodological demands of how we do abolition work in the academy. Abolition methodologies entail a responsibility to bridge the spaces between academic and community work focused on resisting and building alternatives to carcerality. Taking our lead from organizers embedded in communities of practice and care, we see abolition methodologies as an opportunity to pursue a range of artistic, educational, and politically strategic scholar and scholar-activist works. Inspired by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's understanding that refusals can offer imaginative alternatives, we present four principles of abolitionist methodologies grounded in generative acts of refusal. These include abolition as reorientation, as contextual, as livingness, and as relational. To illustrate these principles in action, we discuss our efforts in the Prison Agriculture Lab to develop creative works and beneficial tools that, we hope, will help upend racial capitalism and advance the practice of abolition in daily life

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