Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 086: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Everyday Work of Abolition
Room: Kimball Room

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Institutional Ethnography

Organizers: Keisha M. Muia, Portland State University
Jayne Malenfant, McGill University

Presider/Discussant: Jayne Malenfant, McGill University

Description: 

This session will explore abolition and focus on institutional ethnography and other critical approaches to research and action.

Papers:

“Abolitionist Struggle in Practice: The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and the Fight to End Prison Slavery in Minnesota,” Isabella Irtifa, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

“Creating Spaces Where We Can Breathe: Abolitionist-decolonial Environmental Justice Praxis,” Ki'Amber Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz

“Humanizing, Relational, and Everyday Approaches to Advocacy and Abolitionist Praxis,” Libby Vigil, The University of New Mexico

“Prairieland Solidarity Committee: The Early Days of an Abolitionist Organization against a Texas Immigrant Prison,” Luis A. Romero, Texas Christian University

“The Everyday Work of Abolition as a Determinant of Health,” Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo, Jeffrey Ansloos and rosalind hampton, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

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