Abolition Democracy — Prisons, Empire, and Structural Violence (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Abolition Democracy by Angela Y. Davis as a systems-level analysis of how incarceration, punishment, and imperial violence function as enduring pillars of modern governance.
By situating prisons within a longer historical arc that stretches from slavery to the present, the book reveals how coercive institutions persist not despite democracy, but alongside it — reshaping freedom through exclusion and control.
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