An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this
moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just
futures.
Practicing New
Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation,
iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence,
decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a
world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails,
or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we
need to survive and thrive.
Drawing on decades
of experience as an abolitionist organizer, policy advocate, and
litigator in movements for racial, gender, economic, and
environmental justice and the principles articulated by adrienne
maree brown in Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds,
Ritchie invites us to think beyond traditional legislative and policy
change to create more possibilities for survival and resistance in
the midst of the ongoing catastrophes of racial capitalism—and the
cataclysms to come. Rooted in analysis of current abolitionist
practices and interviews with on-the-ground organizers resisting
state violence, building networks to support people in need of
abortion care, and nurturing organizations and convergences that can
grow transformative cities and movements, Practicing New Worlds
takes readers on a journey of learning, unlearning, experimentation,
and imagination to dream the worlds we long for into being.