Practicing New Worlds

Abolition and Emergent Strategy

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English language

Published Nov. 19, 2023 by AK Press.

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978-1-84935-511-7
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5 stars (1 review)

Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.

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reviewed Practicing New Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Essential reading for those who dream of abolition

5 stars

This book is a great spring-board for thinking about and planning for abolition through a series of well-chosen metaphors drawn from nature. Especially as I've learned more about abolition, I've encountered the "but how do we get there?" question from folks curious about what a world without policing can look like and the concrete steps to take to arrive there.

The answer this book presents isn't a set of concrete steps, but a nimble and robust framework for thinking about abolition as a process, one that is fractal, iterative, cooperative, autonomous, and creative. The answer to what we do about the prison industrial complex is different for everybody, and this book presents a way to think about that.

If you are already convinced we need to abolish police and prisons but aren't sure how to carve a path forward, this might be the text for you in this moment.

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