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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Abolitionist"”.
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Potential and limits of abolitionist restorative justice in the UK
… this alternative judicial practice introduces abolitionist elements in the criminal justice system. This research is inspired by previous empirical and theoretical work around the concept of ‘spreading the net’, which assessed whether alternatives to custody were, in fact, alternatives to …
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
<p>My dissertation, Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World, examines abolitionist imagination in the cultural production of black American writers, creatives, activists, and thinkers. From its inception in the nineteenth century, abolitionism has evolved from a …
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… in genre/generic speculation on the figure abolitionist≠posthumanism. Working para-critically to consider textures, postulations and challenges posed by decolonial thought, Indigenous critical theories, Black studies, critical race feminisms, non-philosophy and theories on digitality, i pose …
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… author in a letter written in 1855 to the abolitionist journal The Liberator. As the author recounts the liberation of two formerly enslaved girls, she illustrates the practice by Northern abolitionists of commemorating the freedom of rescued slaves, particularly the liberation of …
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The Children of Spring Street: The Remains of Childhood in a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation
<p>This dissertation examines the skeletal remains of 75 children interred the burial vaults (1820-1846) of the 19th century Spring Street Presbyterian Church in lower Manhattan. New York City and the 8th Ward neighborhood of the church were rapidly urbanizing and diversifying in the early 19th …
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Gender responsive penality: A feminist abolitionist analysis of official penal discourse post Corston report (2007).
This thesis critically investigates the publication, reception and impact of the Corston Report (2007) on official penal discourse prior to and after its publication. The thesis applies the ideas of Canadian feminist penologist Kelly Hannah-Moffat, who has highlighted the potential mutation of …
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GHOSTS BEYOND OUR REALM A neo-abolitionist analvsis of prisoner human rights and prison officer occupational culture
… policy, and occupational culture. Utilising a neoabolitionist normative framework, the legitimacy of the current meanings of prisoner human rights are scrutinised, and an alternative promoted. It is argued that in the five year period under review, the HRA has been restrictively interpreted in …
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Collective Care for Carceral Transformation: Investigating Mutual Aid's Role in Building Decarceral Futures
… mutual aid to support communities and advance abolitionist praxis. Drawing upon phenomenological interviews conducted with thirteen participants who have either provided or received mutual aid within grassroots organizations, it examines the multifaceted role of mutual aid across three …
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Pedagogies of Abolition: A Phenomenological Exploration of Radical Study in Black Trans Communities
… abolition as the process of teaching/learning an abolitionist praxis (Q. Alexander, 2022; Dyke et al., 2018; Love, 2019; Meiners, 2011; Rodriguez, 2019). Abolitionist praxis serves as a Black radical mode of study (Meyerhoff, 2019) working to transform our reliance on carceral state power and the …
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Hiding in plain sight: Virginia oystering and landscapes of abolitionism
… Turner’s revolt, and coincided with the rise of abolitionist ideologies and increased interest in the Colonization Movement. This thesis emphasizes the importance of the ‘culture’ part of the field of material culture studies, using the case study of the 1832 stolen whaleboat escape. The liminal …
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Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women's Antislavery Verse, 1785--1865
… explores the connection between British women's abolitionist poetry and legislation on the slave trade and slavery. This nexus between literature and the law shows that authorship was an early vehicle for women to engage in public discourse. In four chapters, Writing Resistance chronicles a …
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The Second Lane Debate: Voices from the Wilderness Surge Across the Nation
… thesis traced the next step for the young Lane abolitionists, one in which they put their new beliefs into action. This next step, termed by the author as the Second Lane Debates, took the local events into the forum of the national print media. The Second Lane Debates became a powerful forum …
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The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity
… positioning them at the heart of Britain’s abolitionist campaign on the West African coast. Through officers’ narratives and personal testimonies – found in letters, journals, report books and diaries – it examines the reactions, relations and encounters of these agents of change, and their …
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Anarchist Abolitionism: The Context and Meaning of Kropotkin's Prison Writings
… prison does not work in reducing crime. Penal abolitionists oppose the current use of the prison and wish for its removal. In line with their views, Peter Kropotkin also wished for the removal of the prison. He believed it was a harmful institution just as abolitionists did but Kropotkin …
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Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen case, Washington, DC
… as the congressman who insisted on presenting abolitionist petitions to Congress despite the "gag rule" forbidding it, Adams agonized that his entanglements with the fate of a slave might cause his political ruin.</p><p>Slavery Exacts An Impossible Price argues that the Allen case illustrates …
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… we can conceive a practice of self-care using an abolitionist lens to examine the writings and performances of three Black feminists Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors. Abolitionist self-care is a response to the political structures that directly affect marginalized communities, and …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist, spy, nurse, and suffragist. Her successful, secret journeys into the slave states to rescue bondwomen, men, and children have immortalized her in the minds of Americans for over one hundred and thirty years. One of the most famous …
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'A plea for Missouri' : the American Home Missionary Society and the Civil War-era struggle for Missouri and the West
… its newly recruited missionaries, were overtly abolitionist. The traditional animosity in Missouri toward Congregationalism as northern and abolitionist caused the AHMS to conduct its pre-war mission work through New School Presbyterian churches. In 1861, the New School Presbyterians withdrew …
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Separate Spheres Collide: The Economic Influence Of Slavery On Sarah Josepha Hale's Northwood (1827 And 1852)
… Hale's publication of Northwood (1827), an anti-abolitionist novel about the Romilly family of Northweed, New Hampshire, a middle-class farming clan, who morally scorn the institution of slavery but offer only lip service to alter its establishment. The novel encourages preservation of the Union …
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