As we step into an era of rising fascism and normalized genocide, Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy’s Terrors 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 includes accessible and revealing discussions of the role of institutions, universities and nonprofit organizations in the suppression of radical movements. It introduces and analyzes contemporary militarized policing projects like Cop City, ICE, and the School of the Americas, and links them to historical and contemporary settler colonialism and slavery.
Made as an offering of revolutionary love, Confronting Counterinsurgency will be a crucial tool for deepening and radicalizing our analysis and learning from each other’s movements, in order to strengthen our resistance and unite to fight for a better world.
Table of Content
Introduction
Part I: Realizations
1. Cop Cities Carnage (Chris Browne, Liliana, Joy James, Kalonji Jama Changa)
2. (De)Colonizing Atlanta: Resisting the Misleadership Class (Keyanna Jones Moore)
3. Nonprofit Industrial Complex: The New Counterinsurgency (Kalonji Jama Changa)
4. ‘We Charge Colonialism’: ICE, Human Trafficking & Prisons (Keyanna Jones Moore, Kalonji Jama Changa, Liliana)
II: Resistance in the Americas
5. 1492: Indigenous Sovereignty & Black Self Determination (and the Repressive University) (Mohamed Abdou, Ashanti Alston, Kalonji Changa, Joy James)
6. Groundings!: Caribbean Canadian Education (Marsha Hinds Myrie)
7. School of Americas: Resources, Soldiers, Assassins (Liliana)
8. Black (Brazilian) Futurity (Andréia Beatriz dos Santos, Hamilton Borges dos Santos, joão costa vargas)
Part III: Study Guides & Organizing
9. Radio Outlaw & the Disruption of Normalization (kai barrow, JAZZ Franklin, Kara Lynch)
10. Containing Carceral Universities (Anonymous)
11. Maroons in Conversation
Contributors
Notes
About the author
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.
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