Was ist Abolitionismus?
Input – Daniel Loick & Vanessa E. Thompson
“Abolitionism” refers to both a theoretical approach and a political and social movement that works to overcome violent state institutions such as prisons and police. In the tradition of the struggle against the enslavement of Black people, abolitionists emphasise the racist history of state apparatuses of violence and their complicity with forms of capitalist exploitation and patriarchal oppression. In a recently published reader, Vanessa E. Thompson and Daniel Loick have made the most important voices of this international movement accessible in German. The event will present central themes and motifs from abolitionist theory and practice.
The input by Daniel Loick and Vanessa Thompson will be streamed. We will show the stream in the Halle at Zentralwäscherei. We will provide a streaming link for people who are not able to join physically.
Daniel Loick is Associate Professor of Political & Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. His work is situated at the intersection of philosophy, political theory and social theory. The development of a critical theory of law and state power, counter-communities and politics of life form are the focus of Loick’s research. His books include “Critique of Sovereignty”, “Critique of Police” and most recently, together with Vanessa E. Thompson, "Abolitionism - a Reader.
Vanessa E. Thompson is currently Associate Professor (Black Studies) at Queen’s University in Kingston (Canada). She researches and publishes on black social movements, black feminisms, critical migration, border and racism studies, anti-colonial theories and methodologies, critiques of policing and carcerality, abolition and social justice, activist feminist ethnographies. Thompson’s research explores racial profiling in depth and she has published several articles on the subject. In 2020, her book “Security. Critical of Racism and Feminist Debates. Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot.” and in 2021 “Black Feminisms. Focus issue of Femina Politica.”.