Abolitionism, as a distinct approach in critical theory and political activism, is often associated with the abolition of slavery in the Americas. Contemporary movements such as police and prison abolitionism are also marked by debates centered on the US. This event asks what abolition might mean in, for and against Europe; its own specific genealogies, articulations and conjunctures of legal and extralegal violence – border regime, militarism, ecological destruction, exploitation and super-exploitation – and its own histories, traditions and coalitions of resistance and living otherwise.  

We have invited writers, scholars and activists to discuss the question of what abolition means, has meant and might mean in Europe.