Abolitionist Intimacies

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By El Jones

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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones explores the prison abolition movement through Black feminist principles centred on care and collective struggle. She traces the history of prisons in Canada, linking them to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, and shows how intimacy is affected by state violence in sites of incarceration, policing, and care institutions. Despite the state's control over these intimate spaces, Jones highlights the vital role of relationships and organising among prisoners as acts of care and resistance. Her prose and poetry, informed by years of activism and scholarship, present abolition as both a political and deeply intimate movement grounded in love and commitment.
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This book will resonate with readers interested in prison abolition, Black feminist theory, social justice activism, and Canadian history. It is essential for those engaged in education, prison justice work, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of care, intimacy, and liberation beyond carceral systems.

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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work.

The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as prison visits, strip searches and managing community contact with incarcerated people. Despite this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation through the care work of building relationships and organizing with the people inside.

Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love.

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Abolitionist Intimacies offers a compelling blend of prose and poetry, praised for its unflinching truth and engaging style. Evelyn C. White of Atlantic Books Canada commends Jones’s powerful voice speaking truth to power, while Ashley Marshall from Spring Magazine highlights the book’s pace and embodiment of lived experience. Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, notes the book’s urgent importance and Jones’s skill in linking theoretical insight with lived realities to envision abolitionist futures.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781773635521

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 January 2023

Country: Canada

Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 312g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies in 2017. She was Halifax's Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance!, a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour, on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.