Practicing New Worlds: Reading & Discussion Guide

By Rachael Zafer

This is a reading and discussion guide for Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Andrea J. Ritchie, an exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, and shape safer and more just futures. This resource includes guiding questions, prompts, and links to additional resources, videos, and readings.

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.