Description:
To Turn the World Around proposes a vision of transformative selfhood that centers healing justice, self and mutual aid, and a somatic approach while challenging oppressive forces. To actualize W. E. B. DuBois's concept of abolition democracy--drawing from Black women's history of navigating bodily dispossession--Ali Aslam advocates for combined personal healing and embodied action that transcends conventional politics.
Review Quotes:
"A very engaging and unique text, To Turn the World Around is a welcome intervention in Black studies discourses on democracy, politics, refusal, repair, and transformation. Ali Aslam's ideas on the inner work of healing justice are very strong and original, with superb theorization on the importance of somatic knowledge to develop capacity, confidence, and health." --Deva Woodly, author of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
"To Turn the World Around is a beautiful, compelling, and urgently needed book, written in and for a time that feels anything but beautiful. As the waves left in slavery's wake crest around us, Ali Aslam investigates what possibilities remain in collective action, approaching it as a problem of repair and the work of 'making ready'--an innovative and profoundly useful insight." --Erin Pineda, author of Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement