You are viewing your 1 free article this month. Login to read more articles.
Pluto Press has seized a "groundbreaking" work of feminist abolitionist theory by H L T Quan. Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living is the first major work by the political theorist and leading abolitionist thinker.
Senior commissioning editor David Shulman and m.d. Veruschka Selbach acquired world all-languages rights direct from the author. The book will be published in paperback on 20th February 2024.
The synopsis says: "The sweeping, magisterial work of feminist theory, the book is a deep engagement with a kaleidoscope of revolutionary movements. It sets out to reclaim ‘freedom’, ‘justice’ and ‘democracy’ in the aftermath of global upheaval, the 2020 George Floyd uprisings and attacks on reproductive justice worldwide.
"As struggles for democracy and freedom intensify across the globe, and in a context of escalating state repression, there is an urgent need to draw from the rich history of struggle against oppression. Quan’s work offers radical solutions at a time of deepening political despair and illuminates new ways of being, relating, organising and rebelling."
Quan is a political theorist, an award-winning filmmaker, and an associate professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is the author of Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World (Lexington Books) and editor of Cedric J Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance (Pluto Press).
Patrick Hughes, sales manager for North America, said: "H L T Quan’s scholarship represents the next generation of abolitionist feminist thought in the tradition of Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Michelle Alexander."
Shulman added: "Pluto first worked with H L T Quan a few years ago when she edited and introduced the collection of writings by the late Cedric Robinson, one of our most important and successful titles. She is one of the most exciting and original thinkers active today, and a thrilling writer too. Her new book turns to the long history of resistance against tyranny – from slave and peasant rebellions of the past to today’s struggles for labour rights, bodily autonomy and an end to state violence – to deepen our understanding of what democracy might be.
"Deeply grounded in abolition feminism and Black radical thought, the book is a major milestone that will be necessary reading for activists and anyone concerned about our collective future. We at Pluto Press are thrilled to be its publisher."