On Property, Rinaldo Walcott
On Property, Rinaldo Walcott
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On Property
Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

Author: Rinaldo Walcott

Narrator: David Andrew Reid

Unabridged: 3 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/15/2021

Synopsis

From plantation rebellion to prison labour’s super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery’s afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Enid

Wow! A perfect little primer. I could say so much, but really all that needs to be said is that this is an absolute must read title. One of the things I appreciated most about it is that the author consciously chose to make this accessible - to not make it read like an academic treatise - and that h......more

Goodreads review by Andrea

One of my clearest memories of my undergrad days is reading Ursula le Guin's The Dispossessed for an elective anthropology course (yes, even then I was a book nerd). In one scene that relates the protagonist's childhood in an anarchist colony, his preschool teacher tells his parents that the main ch......more

Goodreads review by Jane

Ever since going to law school when I was in my 40s and sitting in Property Law class, I have wanted to write on property, and of course I was excited to read Rinaldo Walcott's take on this topic. It is a small, short book, written in the genre of a pamphlet, reviving the tradition of those pamphlet......more

Goodreads review by Ben

On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition is a non-fiction book written by Rinaldo Walcott. Walcott, a professor of gender studies at the University of Toronto, delivers a clear-eyed assessment of the links between property, policing, and the subjugation of Black people. It has been......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

Absolutely essential reading! Only the last 20-25 pages are specifically about property but the theme is laced throughout, from the first pages. Walcott shows how prison and police abolition are inextricably linked to the ownership, as property, of Black bodies, by white plantation owners. He paints......more

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