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Insurgent Love
Abolition and Domestic Homicide
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Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice.
Ardath Whynacht (she/her) is a queer feminist who writes and researches about mental health and violence. She has worked as a counsellor and advocate for family violence response and prevention for more than two decades and with incarcerated people in the Federal prison system since 2008, with a focus on supporting women in maximum security and men serving life sentences for homicide.
- ISBN-13
- 9781773634838
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing
- Imprint
- Fernwood Publishing
- Publication date
- 31 October 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
- Language
- English
