Reunión Anual de la Asociación Americana de Sociología: Feminismo Abolicionista y Construcción de Comunidades de Justicia - Plenaria Presidencial (en inglés)
How do we ensure the kind of society that promotes safety and justice for everyone? In particular, what practices, policies, and systems must we keep, abandon, or develop in order to eliminate the harms of violence in our communities? Traditionally, carceral practices suggest that we use the criminal legal system to arrest and imprison our way out of interpersonal harm. Yet, dominant forms of criminal justice intervention often fail to reduce violence significantly, while simultaneously upholding racist and patriarchal systems of oppression. In this plenary session, panelists—Dr. Brittany Battle, Dr. Vicki Chartrand, and Professor Dorothy E. Roberts—explore an alternative perspective – Abolition Feminism – which suggests that rather than applying the punitive power of the state, new systems of care and collaboration are crucial for creating a safe, humane, and equitable world. This plenary challenges the field of sociology to reconsider its assumptions, methods, and activities, while employing a radical imagination grounded in the work of Black and Indigenous women.
