Gender Studies 333CF - Advanced Seminar: 'Free Them All: Abolition Feminism and Anticarceral Action Research'

Anticarceral Action Research

Spring
2023
01
4.00
Ren-yo Hwang

TH 01:30PM-04:20PM

Mount Holyoke College
120181
Shattuck Hall 203
rhwang@mtholyoke.edu
120181,120167
This course will center the activism, theories and praxis of abolition feminism. We will collectively study how interpersonal violence (gender, racial, sexual, ableist) is intertwined with state violence (from domestic policing to militarism abroad). Through investigating the legal history of the criminalization of survivors alongside mainstream antiviolence research and statistics, we will challenge the use of criminological binaries such as victim/perpetrator and violent/nonviolent. Partnering with coalitions like Survived and Punished National, this course is structured by a series of anti-carceral action research projects such as contributing to active survivor defense campaigns.

Prereq: Two courses in Gender Studies or Critical Social Thought at the 200 level or above.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.