This module looks at abolitionist approaches more generally, stepping away from the application to the university. In a Jacobin article, Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein take the case of prison abolitionists, tracing their organizing back through a history of state violence and making the claim that abolition is rooted in organizing for concrete reforms, not naive dreams. Mariame Kaba expands on these in an audio interview.
Supplemental is a 55 minute interview with abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Davis’ 2003 book “Are Prisons Obsolete?”