Practicing New Worlds: Reading & Discussion Guide
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 reading and discussion guide 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.
Practicing New Worlds Study Guide
Want to explore more? Check out this study guide for Practicing New Worlds, an offering from the PNW Study Circle, organized and hosted by the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership in the Winter & Spring of 2026.
This Study Circle unfolded over four sessions in February, March, April and May 2026, gathering people in person at the Boggs Center, with some attending virtually. The aim was to discuss about four chapters per session: “We encourage you to experiment with and reflect on different approaches, and we hope you’ll consider sharing your own experiences of collective learning…
“Instead of focusing solely on analyzing or critiquing Practicing New Worlds, we wanted our Study Circle to be a space for engaging in collective inquiry, where our own experiences and thinking would serve as the main springboards to conversation.”
