At the next Creating Safer Space Research Café, we will discuss the idea of abolition, how this debate may be linked to UCP, and potential avenues for future collaboration between abolition researchers and UCP researchers.
Dr Raquel da Silva (University of Coimbra) and Prof Nerve Macaspac (City University of New York) will present their research on the topic and introduce the session.
Raquel is interested in discussions surrounding the imperative to address instances of police violence. She is particularly keen on exploring reconceptualizations of the understanding of security and its governance in relation to the state policing apparatus by exploring how community-led intersectional politics of care can mitigate structural conditions of violence. Nerve’s research explores a relational framework that puts practices of unarmed community self-protection in dialogue with the scholarship of “abolition geography” in rethinking how everyday life might be lived and organized—socially and spatially—that does not rely upon institutions that reproduce spaces of violence.
12.30 – 1.30 pm UTC on Thursday 14 November.
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The session will be held in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation.
Please register for this online Zoom event here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-mgrzkiHtPR8KDHgiw4LnnPqg6uN_S9
The aim of the Creating Safer Space Research Cafés is to enable people in different parts of the world to exchange knowledge and to help build a community of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) researchers and practitioners.