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An Unintended Abolition

Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2022
In a typical year, New York City’s vast family regulation system, fueled by an army of mandated reporters, investigates tens of thousands of reports of child neglect and abuse, policing almost exclusively poor Black and Latinx families even as the ...
Anna Arons
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Abolition Theology? Or, the Abolition of Theology? Towards a Negative Theology of Practice

Religions, 2019
On February 8, 1971, Michel Foucault announced the formation of Le Groupe d’information sur les prisons (the Prisons Information Group [GIP]), a group of activist intellectuals who worked to amplify the voices of those with firsthand knowledge of ...
Brandy Daniels
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Preface for J-PAND Supplement Issue: Project on Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia (NU-NEA)

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
This supplement issue of Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament presents the papers commissioned in 2021 to support the Project on Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia (NU-NEA).
David F. von Hippel, Peter Hayes, Shatabhisha Shetty, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Fumihiko Yoshida   +4 more
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Oruka’s Punishment Abolition as a Challenge to Environmental Ethics

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics, 2022
The gross violation of environmental ethics implies the outright destruction of the environment, which in turn poses severe threat to humanity. This study aims at highlighting the effects of Oruka’s punishment abolition on environmental ethics.
Eric Ndoma Besong, John Okwuchukwu Egbonu   +1 more
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‘Upholding the Cause of Civilization’: The Australian Death Penalty in War and Colonialism

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022
The abolition of the death penalty in Queensland in 1922 was the first in Australian jurisdictions, and the first in the British Empire. However, the legacy of the Queensland death penalty lingered in Australian colonial territories.
Mark Finnane
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Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition

Humanities, 2022
Australia’s brutal carceral-border regime is a colonial system of intertwining systems of oppression that combine the prison-industrial complex and the border-industrial complex.
Omid Tofighian, Rachael Swain, Dalisa Pigram, Bhenji Ra, Chandler Connell, Emmanuel James Brown, Feras Shaheen, Issa El Assaad, Luke Currie-Richardson, Miranda Wheen, Czack (Ses) Bero, Zachary Lopez   +11 more
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ABOLITION

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
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A Prelude to Civil War: The Religious Nonprofit Sector as a Civil Means of Debate over Slavery, Christian Higher Education, and Religious Philanthropy in the Stone-Campbell Movement

Religions, 2018
This paper examines the role of Christian higher education and religious philanthropy in the debate over slavery prior to the Civil War. Competing religious views regarding slavery led to the founding of Indiana’s abolitionist Butler University ...
Thad S. Austin
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On racial capitalism, structural change and the liquidation of Whiteness

Radical Americas, 2021
This article analyses ‘racial capitalism’ as a cohesive but at times contradictory project. Understanding that both capitalism and White supremacy are constantly evolving, the objective here is to understand the political and economic currents that ...
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A Neo-Slave Narrative Reading of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) [PDF]

Uirtus, 2022
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) is a narrative that carries the reader to the historical context of the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century United States of America.
Kpatcha Essobozou Awesso
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