Mia Karisa Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mia Karisa Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mia Karisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5702-4367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abolition and the everyday life of Sacramento's carceral housing crisis
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property
This Movement Will Take You So High and So Low
I address this letter to myself on November 25, 2014, the day after the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, when a resounding silence in my college physics class sparked a fire in me and a journey of awakening and action. Somewhere between a love letter and a condolence, a reassurance and a forewarning, these words serve to soften my stumble towards empowerment and insight as I grow as a young organizer in the Black Lives Matter movement
Relationships, resources, and political empowerment: Community violence intervention strategies that contest the logics of policing and incarceration
Community violence—defined as unsanctioned violence between unrelated individuals in public places—has devastating physical, psychological, and emotional consequences on individuals, families, and communities. Immense investments in policing and incarceration in the United States have neither prevented community violence nor systemically served those who have been impacted by it, instead often inflicting further harm. However, the logics that uph…
The Kings ain't playin' no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento
This article considers the significance of disrespecting property as a long-standing practice of abolition. As an organizer, observer and participant, I consider a series of Black Lives Matter protests in Sacramento that transgress the dictates of property in the city. I apply Cedric Robinson's under-examined theory of the terms of order to understand these transgressions as fundamental threats to assemblages of capitalism, whiteness and policing…
The Kings ain't playin' no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento
This article considers the significance of disrespecting property as a long-standing practice of abolition. As an organizer, observer and participant, I consider a series of Black Lives Matter protests in Sacramento that transgress the dictates of property in the city. I apply Cedric Robinson's under-examined theory of the terms of order to understand these transgressions as fundamental threats to assemblages of capitalism, whiteness and policing…
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property
The Kings ain't playin' no one tonight: Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento
This article considers the significance of disrespecting property as a long-standing practice of abolition. As an organizer, observer and participant, I consider a series of Black Lives Matter protests in Sacramento that transgress the dictates of property in the city. I apply Cedric Robinson's under-examined theory of the terms of order to understand these transgressions as fundamental threats to assemblages of capitalism, whiteness and policing…
Relationships, resources, and political empowerment: Community violence intervention strategies that contest the logics of policing and incarceration
Community violence—defined as unsanctioned violence between unrelated individuals in public places—has devastating physical, psychological, and emotional consequences on individuals, families, and communities. Immense investments in policing and incarceration in the United States have neither prevented community violence nor systemically served those who have been impacted by it, instead often inflicting further harm. However, the logics that uph…
The legacy of Black Power, the future of abolition, and the urban land question in The City after Property
This Movement Will Take You So High and So Low
I address this letter to myself on November 25, 2014, the day after the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, when a resounding silence in my college physics class sparked a fire in me and a journey of awakening and action. Somewhere between a love letter and a condolence, a reassurance and a forewarning, these words serve to soften my stumble towards empowerment and insight as I grow as a young organizer in the Black Lives Matter movement
Abolition and the everyday life of Sacramento's carceral housing crisis
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Property (philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)