Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime: Joy James, Nadera Shahloub-Kevorkian, Stephen Sheehi and Abeer Otman

When: Thursday, 14 March at 6pm

Where: Room 313, Third Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Format: In-person and Online

Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime: Joy James, Nadera Shahloub-Kevorkian, Stephen Sheehi and Abeer Otman in Conversation

State Crime Journal is sponsoring a launch for its special issue “Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime”.

Joy James, Nadera Shahloub-Kevorkian, Stephen Sheehi and Abeer Otman will be in conversation to discuss abolitionist perspectives and practice - perspectives that not only theorise settler colonial governance but offer empirical analyses of a variety of carceral structures, mechanisms, relationships and discourses that are particular to the racial capitalist formations of settler states’.

The special issue of the State Crime Journal includes Joy James, Noura Erakat, Sunera Thobani, Sherene Razack, Sarah Ihmoud, Joanna Allan, Abeer Otman, Loubna Qutami, Nadim Rouhana, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Stephen Sheehi.

Within the contexts of the United States and Canada, occupied Palestine and occupied Western Sahara, the special issue of State Crime Journal mobilizes abolitionist frameworks to make visible the deliberate, orchestrated, historically-bound and ideologically-structured discourses of settler colonial governance that naturalize the racialization, marginalization and displacement of indigenous and otherized lives. Within the contexts then of settler colonialism, abolitionist perspectives and interventions reconceptualize and challenge the legitimacy of settler colonial sovereignties.