Abolishing state violence : a world beyond bombs, borders, and cages /
Abolishing state violence is an urgent and accessible analysis of the key structures of state violence in our world today, and a clarion call to action for their abolition. Acheson argues that understanding the relationship between structures of violence and frameworks for challenging them must be o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Haymarket Books,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Abolishing state violence is an urgent and accessible analysis of the key structures of state violence in our world today, and a clarion call to action for their abolition. Acheson argues that understanding the relationship between structures of violence and frameworks for challenging them must be on the basis of their roots in patriarchy, racism, militarism, settler colonialism and capitalism. Abolition is transformative. It is about defunding, demilitarizing, disbanding and divesting from current structures of violence, but also about imagining new ways to organize and care for each other and our planet, and about building new systems and cultures to sustain ourselves in a more equitable, free and peaceful way. It shows that change is possible. |
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| Physical Description: | 373 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781642596939 1642596930 9781642597417 1642597414 |