2025/08/03 by Hannah Kass, Alexander Dunlap · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/20438206251364969
openalex publication_date 2025/08/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
In this author reply to four commentaries on our article, ‘Rioting as legitimate abolitionist practice: Counterinsurgency versus radical place-making in the George Floyd rebellion’, we reflect on the extension of the George Floyd rebellion (GFR) into the Stop Cop City (SCC) struggle, and state repression against them. SCC (temporarily) succeeded in its stoppage of carceral infrastructure expansion by forming an ecosystem of tactics – a collaboration between the procedural, autonomous, and insurrectionary abolitionisms we analyzed in our article. We stress that, even when procedural tactics are helpful or necessary, state repression against the GFR and SCC further reveals an adverse relationship between abolition and the state.