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Author: Bernard Harcourt

Bernard E. Harcourt | Eliminating Borders

April 17, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt The rich conversation at Abolition Democracy 12/13 underscores the often-implicit or unspoken distinction, in debates over borders, between jurisdictional boundaries for purposes of democratic self-governance and territorial borders for purposes of migration. The difference between boundaries… Continue Reading →

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Seyla Benhabib | Border Regimes in the Age of Covid

March 27, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Seyla Benhabib* I. If the COVID-19 pandemic has made anything clear it is the absurdity of our faith in closing borders which many citizens and residents all over the world clamored for as a measure against an invisible virus, while… Continue Reading →

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo | Abolish ICE!

March 25, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Paulina Ochoa Espejo Should we abolish borders? Today every country’s borders are unjust, cruel, and rotten. This is true even of open, cooperative borders, like those inside Schengen Europe. They too are unjust, in that their relative openness depends… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Introduction to 12/13 on Borders

March 24, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt Border control regimes—like the beams that crumble when you try to drive a screw into them—are rotten and cannot be fixed, but they stand because of all the institutional and economic structures around them act like… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | An Introduction to Abolitionist Futures

March 15, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt “The responsibility is entirely yours. You must make your efforts to uproot caste, if not in my way, then in your way.” — R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (1936)[1] We arrive at the final session of… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Welcome to Abolition Democracy 11/13 on “Abolish Oil”

March 11, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt “The Red Deal continues this call for divestment from fossil fuel industries, but we go one step further. We draw from Black abolitionist traditions to call for divestment away from the caging, criminalizing, and harming of… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Abolishing the “Child Welfare” Ordeal

February 9, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt We were “state children,” court wards; [the judge] had the full say-so over us. A white man in charge of a black man’s children! Nothing but legal, modern slavery—however kindly intentioned. — Malcolm X, The Autobiography… Continue Reading →

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Phillip Tomlin | 27 Years on Death Row

January 18, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Phillip Wayne Tomlin [Editor’s note: Phillip Wayne Tomlin is currently incarcerated at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Alabama. Mr. Tomlin spent 27 years on Alabama’s death row. Since then, he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without… Continue Reading →

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Cruel and Unusual Punishment

January 18, 2021Bernard Harcourt

By Bernard E. Harcourt The horror. Unimaginable. Intolerable. It is not just the scale of the inhumanity. Thirteen executions. Thirteen executions in less than six months. No, we had already become numb to the inevitability of the next execution… It… Continue Reading →

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Martin Saar | Reflections on the Frankfurt School and Capital

December 20, 2020Bernard Harcourt

By Martin Saar In my presentation, I will develop four points—four perspectives on how to read these rather diverse texts by Friedrich Pollock, Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor W. Adorno, in order to shed some light on the question… Continue Reading →

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