Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages

ABOLISHING STATE VIOLENCE is an urgent and accessible analysis of state violence and a call to action for their abolition. It connects movements for social justice with ideas for activists to support and build on this analysis and strategy, showing that abolition is transformative and about defunding, demilitarizing, disbanding, and divesting from current structures of violence, as well as imagining new ways to organize and care for each other and our planet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Haymarket Books

ABOLISHING STATE VIOLENCE is a comprehensive and timely examination of the fundamental frameworks of state violence prevalent in our world today. It serves as a fervent plea for their immediate abolition. By bridging the movements for social justice with insights on how activists can bolster and enhance this analysis and strategy, this book demonstrates the existence of numerous mutually reinforcing abolition movements, each bolstered by a shared comprehension of the interconnectedness between structures of violence and a unified framework for challenging them based on their origins in patriarchy, racism, militarism, settler colonialism, and capitalism.

This book posits that abolition is a transformative endeavor. It encompasses the dismantling, demilitarization, disbanding, and divestment from existing structures of violence, as well as the envisioning of new organizing principles and care practices for individuals and our planet. It also entails the construction of new systems and cultures that can uphold us in a more equitable, liberated, and peaceful manner. This book firmly establishes that change is achievable.

Weight: 556g
Dimension: 151 x 227 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642596939