Abolition: In Defence of Translation

Abolition, as theory and practice, is not an exported product from the United States. It is not a static phenomena that emanates outwards from centre to periphery, rather it eschews boundaries and borders in order to enable us to make critical and living-saving interventions everywhere. 

Abolition: In Defence of Translation poses a number of questions: How might we conceive of and enact resistance against landscapes of entrapment birthed by racial capitalism in our everyday lives, no matter who we are and where we are situated? Why is Abolition a recurrent concept and how can we understand it as more than just an exported product? How do we escape the trap of ownership of this concept and practice whilst remaining critical of its unspecific application across the world? What would it mean if we refused to assume that carcerality looks and functions the same in every context? What about the prison in our local area and community, if we focused our attention there – what histories, echoes and repetitive cycles of extraction and exploitation might be revealed? What can the local tell us about the global?