Abolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition mean and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?

To posit the spirituality of abolition, is to consider the ways historical and contemporary movements against slavery, prisons, the wage system, animal and earth exploitation, racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence, and the death penalty necessitate epistemologies that have been foreclosed through violent force by Western thought of philosophical and theological kinds. It is also to claim that the material conditions that will produce abolition are necessarily Black, Indigenous, queer and trans, feminist, and also about disabled and other non-conforming bodies in force and verve.

Abolition and Spirituality asks what can prison abolition teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment? And, what can these things underscore about the struggle for abolition as a desired manifestation of material change in worlds we inhabit currently? Collecting writings, poetry, and art from thinkers, organizers, and incarcerated people the editors trace the importance of faith and spirit in our ongoing struggle towards abolitionist horizons.

National radio and podcast campaign, targeting interviews on Chapo Trap House, KPFA, This Is Hell, and more
National print and online campaign, targeting reviews and interviews in The Nation, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and more
Online/social media campaign, including book trailer, giveaways, contests
National university and bookstore tour
Reading group guide
Promotion through the collective's website: www.abolitionjournal.org and social media: @AbolitionJournal
Promotion through activist newsletters and social media

Targeted outreach to progressive religious and spiritual organizations and communities

About the Author
Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics is a collectively-run project supporting radical scholarly and activist ideas, poetry, and art, publishing and disseminating work that encourages us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism.

Reviews
Praise for Abolition Collective

"Abolishing Carceral Society is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom."-Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

"Abolishing Carceral Society is a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance...This inaugural issue from Abolition Collective pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon."-Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us

"Abolishing Carceral Society, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers."-Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle and Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation

"The Abolition Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising."-Steven Salaita, author of Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine

"The Abolition Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex."-James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time

"This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research articles, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative artworks is immensely important to the work of committed scholars, activists and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates and mobilizes here."-Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

"Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists."-Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism

"Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis-what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed!"-J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Hawaiian Blood and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty and editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics

Praise for Ashon Crawley

*Winner of the 2021 Lammy Award in Nonfiction*

*Winner of the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction*

"Ashon T. Crawley pushes his readers to contemplate the intimacy of living the life of the mind as a spiritual, enfleshed, and intellectual matter."-Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine

Praise for Roberto Sirvent

"Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent are two of the most courageous and truthful intellectuals in the belly of the U.S. imperial beast!"-Cornel West

Book Information
ISBN 9781942173724
Author Ashon Crawley
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Common Notions
Publisher Common Notions