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Apoorva Krishnan

“Investing Into a Fallacy”: The Demand for an Abolitionist Critique and Restructuring of Safety

Drawing on interviews with young, anti-racist, and abolitionist activists in Chicago, Apoorva critically explores the value of “safety” as a political end for historically marginalized groups. Her analysis of interview data shows how safety itself is being re-imagined in abolitionist organizations: it is de-coupled from the institutions of law and directed towards practices of community accountability and freedom. 

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