Joy JamesConfronting Counterinsurgency
Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors
Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes with Pluto include Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons and ENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, Afro-Indigenous Futures.
Preface
Introduction (Joy James)
PART I. Carceral Cities and Civil/Human Rights
1. Atlanta's Black Community Says "Stop Cop Cities!" (Rev. Keyanna Jones
Moore, interview by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report)
2. Resisting [Global] Cop Cities and the Militarization of Policing
(Liliana, Joy James, Kalonji Jama Changa, interview by Chris Browne)
3. 1492: Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Self-Determination amid Repression
(Mohamed Abdou, Ashanti Alston, interview by Kalonji Changa, Joy James)
PART II. Battling Colonialism
4. UN Special Committee on Decolonization: Puerto Rico (Benjamin Ramos
Rosado)
5. Oxford Union Address on Genocide, Israel, Palestine (susan albuhawa)
6. Fighting for the Congo (Maurice Carney, Claude Gatebuke, Dr. Ikema
Ojore, Brother Passy, Kwame Wilburg, interview by Kalonji Changa and Rev.
Keyanna Jones Moore)
PART III. Counter Moves
7. Prisoner Human Rights Movement [PHRM]: 2025 Nobel Letter and the Agency
of PHRM (Joy James with Silicon Valley De-Bug Organization)
8. The Abolition of Carceral Schooling (rosalind hampton)
9. Black (Brazilian) Futurity (Andréia Beatriz dos Santos, Hamilton Borges
dos Santos, interview by joão costa vargas)
10. When Opportunity Knocks... by Galley of the Streets (kai barrow, Jazz
Franklin, Kara Lynch)
Conclusion: Democracy's Terrors and our Endless Resistance (Joy James)
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