Building Abolition

Forward by Perry Zurn, "Abolition is a Kite-Idea"

Introduction by Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloe Taylor: "Doing abolition"

Part One: Prisons and Racism

1. Fernando Avila and Jessica Bundy, "Prison abolitionism and critical race theory"

2. Sarah Turnbull, "Racial innocence, liberal reformism, and immigration detention: Toward a politics of abolition"

3. Megan Gaucher and Alexa DeGagne, "The thin blue line between protection and persecution: Policing LGBTQ2S refugees in Canada"

4. Erica Meiners, Liat Ben-Moshe, and Nirmala Erevelles, "Abolishing innocence: Disrupting the racist/ableist pathologies of childhood"

Part Two: Prisons and Settler Colonialism

5. Sol Neely, "Aan Yatx'u Saani! Decolonial Meditations on Building Abolition"

6. Lisa Guenther, "Settler colonialism, incarceration, and the abolitionist imperative: Lessons from an Australian Youth Detention Centre"

7. Danielle Bird, "Settler colonialism, anti-colonial theory, and 'Indigenized' prisons for Indigenous women"

8. Isabel Scheuneman Scott, Fran Chaisson, and Bobbie Kidd's "'The women that died in there, that's all I could think of': The P4W Memorial Collective and Garden Initiative"

Part Three: Anti-Carceral Feminisms

9. Debra Parkes, "Starting with life: Murder sentencing and feminist prison abolitionist praxis"

10. Dawn Moore and Vared Ben-David, "Looking from North West to South East: Feminist carceralism, gender equality and global responses to gender based violence"

11. Jennifer Kilty and Katarina Bogosavljevic, "Remembering Carol Smart: Tensions between feminism, victims' rights and abolitionism"

12. Andrew Dilts, "Carceral enjoyments and killjoying the social life of social death"

Part Four: Multispecies Carceralities

13. Kelly Struthers Montford and Eva Kasprzycka, "Carceral enjoyments of animal protection"

14. Paula Cepeda Gallo and Chloe Taylor, "Carceral canines: Racial terror and animal abuse from slave hounds to police dogs"

15. Lauren Corman, "Trauma as a moebius strip: PTSD, animal research, and the Oak Ridge Prisoner Experiments"

16. Calvin Smiley, "Coexistence as resistance: Human and non-human animals in carceral settings"

Afterword: Justin Piche, "Building Abolition in Pandemic Times"

Index