Join us for a conversation with Amna Akbar and Jackie Wang on abolition. Featuring two scholar-activists who focus on the law and political economy, this conversation seeks to address questions of policing, imprisonment, and long-unfolding threats to democracy, as well as the abolitionist social movements that work to combat these forces, while bringing into a being a transformed world where life is precious. Register to attend.
About the Speakers
Amna Akbar (Law, The Ohio State University) focuses her research and teaching on social movements, critical theory, and policing, race, and inequality. Her scholarship explores the intersections of national security and criminal law, and the potential of social movements to transform our thinking about law, law enforcement, and law reform. She writes broadly for academic and popular audiences, in outlets like NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, NOMOS, Citizenship Studies, the Journal of Legal Education, Law and Political Economy, the Nation, Boston Review, and more. In her teaching and lawyering work, she is deeply engaged with law and organizing in Ohio and around the country.
Jackie Wang is a scholar, abolitionist, poet, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School’s Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (2018), a book on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the U.S. carceral state. In addition to her scholarship, her creative work includes the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (Nightboat Books, 2021) and the forthcoming experimental essay collection Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotexte).
