Confronting Counterinsurgency (eBook, ePUB)

Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors
Redaktion: James, Joy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A work of radical care and love, a study guide for the urgency of the moment Dian Million, author of Therapeutic Nations

Guides us through confrontation with counterinsurgency in empire's proxy wars, colonies, prisons and schools Frances Madeson, author of Cooperative Village

An incendiary political and philosophical reflection Ken Fero, radical filmmaker and convenor of The People's Tribunal on Police Killings

As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency is an invaluable contribution to the fightback.

Joy James brings together the voices of frontline activists, artists, and organizers from movements against militarism and state violence in the USA, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Palestine, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and within prison walls. The book examines the role of institutions, universities and nonprofit organizations in the suppression of radical movements. Analyzing historical and contemporary colonialism, slavery, and militarized policingsuch as Cop Cities, ICE, and the redesigned School of AmericasConfronting Counterinsurgency is a crucial tool for radicalizing and uniting our movements to fight for a better world.

Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition; and Contextualizing Angela Davis. Her edited volumes include Beyond Cop Cities and ENGAGE.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745351551
• Artikelnr.: 73443215

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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)
Contributors