SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 057: Feminist Abolitionism and Collective Resistance to State Control and Violence
Room: Musset
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky
Presider: Alesha Durfee, Saint Louis University
Description: In this session, presenters, using a Feminist Abolitionist framework, will discuss how the neoliberal call for individual responsibility and accountability for criminal offenses magnifies harm through the ripple effects of state control and violence, especially in racially and economically marginalized communities. In doing so, presenters will implicitly or explicitly critique Carceral Feminism.
Papers:
“Abolitionist Origins: Radical Histories in Anti-violence Organizing,” Melinda Chen, The University of Oklahoma
“Abolition Feminism, Advocacy, and Anti-violence Activism: Imagining and Creating a Lifeworld to Resist the System,” Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University
“When Protection is Unsafe: An Intersectional Analysis of Civil Protection Orders and the Carceral State,” Alesha Durfee, Saint Louis University