{"product_id":"practicing-new-worlds-abolition-and-emergent-strategies-9781849355117","title":"Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePracticing New Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on decades of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy advocate, and litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne maree brown in \u003ci\u003eEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, Ritchie invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy change to create more possibilities for survival and resistance in the midst of the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism--and the cataclysms to come. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist practices and interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting state violence, building networks to support people in need of abortion care, and nurturing organizations and convergences that can grow transformative cities and movements, \u003ci\u003ePracticing New Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a journey of learning, unlearning, experimentation, and imagination to dream the worlds we long for into being. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Ritchie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849355117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea J. Ritchie\u003c\/b\u003e is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past four decades. She is cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization and the In Our Names Network, a network of over 20 organizations working to end police violence against Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. In these capacities and through the Community Resource Hub, she works with dozens of groups across the country organizing to divest from policing and invest in strategies that will create safer communities. She is a nationally recognized researcher, policy analyst, and expert on policing and criminalization. Ritchie lives in Detroit, Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUndrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the recipient of the Whiting Foundation Winner in Nonfiction in 2022. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling \u003ci\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWe Will Not Cancel Us\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHolding Change\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGrievers\u003c\/i\u003e. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art; she is a poet changing the world. She is the writer-in-residence at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Andrea Ritchie \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47283313508509,"sku":"9781849355117","price":37.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_a824c059-8069-4909-a13b-b91f6a0ee4eb.jpg?v=1759962211","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/practicing-new-worlds-abolition-and-emergent-strategies-9781849355117","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}