2024 ARPC Faculty Research Collaboratory: Abolition Everywhere
The Antiracist Research & Policy Center is excited to announce the launch of its 2024 faculty research collaboratory, 鈥淎bolition Everywhere.鈥 This interdisciplinary research cluster brings 麻豆视频 scholars of policing and the carceral state together with 麻豆视频 scholars deploying abolitionist frameworks to stage critical interventions on a range of racial justice issues, including education, climate justice, urban gentrification, and reproductive justice. Their collaboration will be guided by two related questions:
- The insights, principles, and practices of 20th and 21st century abolition have become critical tools for scholars and organizers in diverse areas of racial, gender, and economic justice work鈥攆rom education to agriculture, reproductive politics, to the environment. How do these multi-sited and multidisciplinary models of abolition enrich, challenge, and inform each other? What generative possibilities for study and practice emerge when we probe the connections and the disconnections among these contemporary abolitionist frameworks and movements?
- Abolitionist practice is not just about the critical undoing of state monopolies on power, violence, and discipline; more significantly, it is about creating modes of freedom and systems of shared accountability that supplant dominant state systems of control. Given this, what does it mean to approach ostensibly reform-based scholarship and advocacy through the lens of abolition? How might policy intervention, curricular change, or legal advocacy be envisioned as forms of abolitionist practice?
Over 2024鈥檚 spring and fall semesters, the members of 鈥淎bolition Everywhere鈥 will share their individual scholarship, engage chosen resources to develop a shared language and framework, and draft a proposal for a future project to be carried out collectively.
Group Members