For Abolition
Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics
Published on 5. November 2020
268 pages
978-1-909976-84-9 (ISBN)
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A systematic critique of imprisonment which challenges established views and myths. Examines why there still exists so much political and other misguided support for a long failing institution.
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Content
- Cover
- About the author
- The author of the Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright and publication details
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Publisher's note
- Table of Cases
- Endorsements
- Foreword - Joe Sim
- Preface
- The Prison Puzzle and Socialist Ethics:
- Making the Case for Abolition
- Prisons: the puzzle we cannot solve
- Prison labour: enforced idleness or penal slavery?
- Education: learning new crimes or reinforcing failure?
- Relationships on the outside: intensifying pains or natal alienation?
- Relationships on the inside: isolation or forced relationality?
- Taking responsibility: coerced sense of duty or no moral choices?
- Life and wellbeing: failed-treatments or undermining health?
- A place of death: 'negative ethics'
- The ethics of life: 'affirmative ethics'
- Conclusion: socialist ethics, human rights and abolitionist activism
- Abolitionist Ethical Hermeneutics:
- Hearing and Interpreting Voice
- Interpreting prisoner narratives in situational context
- Negative consequentialism
- Discourse ethics
- Virtue ethics
- Libertarian socialist liberation ethics
- Abolitionist ethical hermeneutics
- Critical judgement
- When the estranged Other cannot speak
- Six conditions of speaking
- Conclusion: learning to learn
- Invisible Brutal Hands:
- The Problem of Prison Officer Violence
- Legitimacy and visibility
- Which voices are heard?
- The prisoners' tale: prison officer violence in historical context
- The prison officers' tale: recollections and justifications
- Turning a blind eye
- Masking violence
- Normalisation
- Payback
- Pathological prisoners
- Conclusion
- Phantom Faces at the Window:
- Prisons, Dignity and Moral Exclusion
- Face and acknowledgement
- Moral inclusion
- Moral exclusion
- Width of imprisonment
- The indignities of prison life
- Ethical questions
- Prison is Not a Home:
- Estrangement and the Prison Zone of Abandonment
- There is no place like home
- Warehousing the unwanted
- Institutionally-structured violence
- Legitimate abandonment
- Solidarity with the unwanted
- Falling Softly to Your Grave:
- Time Consciousness and the Death-bound Subject
- Time and the death-bound subject
- Freedom, relationships, place and the lived experience of prison time
- Psychological survival?-?coping with prison time?
- Hurtling towards death consciousness
- Abolitionism as a Philosophy of Hope:
- System 'Inside-Outsiders', Freedom and the Reclaiming of Democracy
- Pedagogy beyond the neo-liberal university
- Organic collective intellectuals
- Reclaiming democracy
- We should hear diverse voices and write what we like
- Researching and platforming subjugated and marginalised voices
- Expert witness to the courts
- Testifying for freedom in official submissions to the state
- Contesting state-corporate power
- Selective engagement with the existing media and creating new forms of media
- Building communities and the production of insurgent knowledge
- Freedom, hope, and praxis
- Ordinary Rebels, Everyone:
- Abolitionist Scholarship and the Struggle for Freedom
- Seven rules of engagement for activist scholars
- Challenging privilege
- Recognition and the relational dimension
- Accountability to the community
- Levelling up and capacity-building
- Consciousness-raising among the populace
- Building new alliances and power bloc based on difference
- Community spaces and the agora
- The encounter: penal abolitionism beyond safe[r] spaces
- Pies Not Prisons
- The encounter?-?Bickershaw social club
- Engaging in local politics
- Connecting with the local media
- An ethical encounter?
- The Abolitionist Imagination:
- Ethics of Empathy, Dignity and Life
- The motivational deficit and the pedagogy of freedom
- Empathy
- Dignity
- The paradigm of life
- Afterword
- A lost opportunity?.
- But a world to win?.
- Bibliography
- Index
- Against Imprisonment
- Back cover
