Abolitionist Voices / edited by David Gordon Scott ; with a foreword by Johannes Feest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinna, Ruth, author.

Contributor:

Scott, David Gordon, editor.

Feest, Johannes, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment and why have their ideas been so difficult to communicate and garner widespread support? This book outlines the long and nuanced history of penal abolitionism and shows how these ideas have continued topicality.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Preface

The Abolitionist Rhizome

Voices of the Oppressed

Kropotkin and the Anarchist Case for Prison Abolition

Angela Davis and the Contributions and Contradictions of Abolition

Phenomenology, Abolition and the Lived Experience of Incarceration

Abolitionist Ideas

Liberation and Reconciliation: The Christian Tradition and Prison Abolition

The Daybreak of Abolition: The Overcoming of Punishment and Promotion of Therapy in Nietzsche’s Philosophy

Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolitionism

Foucault and Prison Abolition

The Scope of Oppression

The Slavery Industrial Complex

Abolition and the Colonial Carceral Archipelago

Southerning Nonpunitive and Abolitionist Feminism

Struggles for Liberation and Justice

Eco-Abolition: Policing Environmental Injustice

Abolitionist Activism in Post-Mass-Media Societies: Moral Panic and the Amplification of Abolitionist Voices

Libertarian Socialism and the Struggle for Liberative Justice

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781529224054

1529224055

9781529224061

1529224063

OCLC:

1503843462