{"title":"Common Notions","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eCommon Notions advances new formulations of liberation and living autonomy. Their books provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eBy any media necessary, Common Notions seeks to nourish the imagination and generalize common notions about the creation of other worlds beyond state and capital. Common Notions publications trace a constellation of critical and visionary meditations on the organization of freedom. Inspired by various traditions of autonomism and liberation—in the U.S. and internationally, historically and emerging from contemporary movements—our publications provide resources for a collective reading of struggles past, present, and to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"we-want-freedom-a-life-in-the-black-panther-party","title":"We Want Freedom - A Life in the Black Panther Party","description":"\u003cp\u003eMumia Abu Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner, is internationally known for his radio broadcasts and books emerging “Live from Death Row.” In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn We Want Freedom, Mumia combines his memories of day-to-day life in the Party with analysis of the history of Black liberation struggles. The result is a vivid and compelling picture of the Black Panther Party and its legacy. Applying his poetic voice and unsparing critical gaze, Mumia examines one of the most revolutionary and most misrepresented groups in the US. As the calls that Black Lives Matter continue to grow louder, Mumia connects the historic dots in this revised\/updated edition, observing that the Panthers had legal observers to monitor the police and demanded the “immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people.” By focusing on the men and women who were the Party, as much as on the leadership; by locating the Black Panthers in a struggle centuries old—and in the personal memories of a young man—Mumia Abu-Jamal helps us to understand freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mumia Abu-Jamal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173045\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 336 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175087583325,"sku":"9781942173045","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/wewantfreedomnew_72.jpg?v=1654988064"},{"product_id":"our-mother-ocean-enclosure-commons-and-the-global-fishermen-s-movement","title":"Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ocean today is a central protagonist in the ongoing battle for life on earth. It is the site of a violent clash between the right to live and the right to profit, as corporate interests enclose the ocean’s vast common of living riches through tourism and industrial fishing—distorting landscapes, depleting fish stocks, and destroying barriers to protection against climate disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the Fisherman’s Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its central role in the struggle against neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, the Fisherman’s Movement has been one of the ocean’s closest and most impassioned protectors, raising key questions concerning the relationship between work and the safeguarding of common resources, the provision of community needs and environmental limits of the devastating industrialization of our oceans. While a remarkable political awareness has spread over the last 40 years around questions of food, agriculture and land, the issues of the sea have remained concealed, despite the protracted struggles between fish workers and those who oversee the sector and the exploitation of the ocean’s resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this crucial intervention, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese offer the ocean to the land-locked history of food sovereignty movements led primarily workers in the global South against dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDalla Costa and Chilese draw attention to the polyvalent functions of the ocean as a source of food, medicine, raw materials, biodiversity and culture—and as a site of human labour and livelihood threatened by vast enclosures through industrial fishing and tourism. This book is an urgent reminder that the ocean is today the site of a heroic struggle for the preservation of life on earth. It points crucially to impassioned sectors of the movement of movements that endure in the global South, and details the stakes of the struggles and its outcomes on land and at sea as central for the future of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e has for decades been a central figure in the development of autonomy in a wide range of anticapitalist\u003cbr\u003e\nmovements. Her seminal coauthored book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, has been\u003cbr\u003e\ntranslated into six languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Chilese is a political sociologist at the University of Padua, where she devotes her study to the question of ecology,\u003cbr\u003e\ngiving special attention to the marine environment, the impoverishment of the fisheries, and the analysis of social problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The emergence of [the] fisher as part of the movement against neoliberal globalization is beautifully understood in this book. I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.\" —George Katsiaficas, activist and author, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsia’s Unknown Uprisings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is no apocalyptic randiness in this amazing account of the horror. Instead, we get a call as rigorous as passionate for what we all need to do now. The authors distill for the reader the almost overwhelming documentation they used in their very solid exploration of the subject, covering almost every aspect of it, and share their insights in an elegant and direct style. The World Fishers Movement, brilliantly described here, the biggest fishers movement in history, begins to do for Mother Ocean what Via Campesina, the biggest farmers movement in history, is doing for Mother Earth. In resisting the new enclosures, hundreds of millions of people are thus attempting to stop the devastating activity of corporate capital, in order to sustain their ways of life and ours. They need both our awareness and our action. This is the book we need for both.\" —Gustavo Esteva, author of \u003cem\u003eGrassroots Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is indeed a timely one. With climate change and the exhaustion of natural resources the patriarchal\/capitalist civilisation seems to be coming to an end. The authors remind us that Mother Earth and Mother Ocean are indeed the source of all life on our planet. Without earth no life; without oceans and water, no life. The authors criticize that the vital connection between humans and the sea, between humans and the earth has been disrupted by capitalist\/patriarchal exploitation. The victims of this explotation are among others all the small coastal fishermen who lose their livelihood. However, the authors do not stop by only analysing these problems but show how people everywhere fight against this destruction. I warmly recommend this book to all who are concerned about future life on this planet.\" —Maria Mies, author of \u003cem\u003ePatriarchy and Accumulation on a World-Scale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Subsistence Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese sound an eloquent warning about the precarious state of not only the planet’s fisheries but of the health of the world’s oceans themselves. They foreground the dilemmas facing fishermen’s movements in various continents, caught as they are between economic imperatives, the need to fish sustainably, and the pressures of multinational capitalism. This book is a thoughtful and necessary call to action.\" —David Gullette, Simmons College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through overfishing, industrial aquaculture, and poisoning, capitalism is killing ocean life—upon which all of life on Earth depends—but the people who are most directly threatened by this destruction are fighting back, and the rest of us urgently need to join their struggles. That is the story that unfolds in this remarkably detailed but compact book by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese. To date, awareness of the killing has been mostly limited to the environmental movement. At the same time, awareness of the ways in which capitalism has been slowly destroying traditional communities of those who live by, on, and with the seas has been mostly limited to the peoples of those communities and, in the case of indigenous fishing communities, a few anthropologists. This book not only illuminates the interrelationships between these two patterns of destruction, but also highlights the emergence of a worldwide movement of resistance on the part of some of those most directly threatened.\" —Harry Cleaver, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging and critical effort by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese, who bring attention to the concerns, questions, and struggles relating to the seas and their remarkable social, economic, cultural, and ecological importance to human beings. This appealing book not only questions our relation with the sea but aims to raise consciousness about the way we live our lives and the ecologic problematic we all face globally. Stressing the ‘polyvalence of the vital functions which the ocean represents,’ the authors explore how the relation of humans with the sea has become one of depredation and destruction for commercial purposes. The book deals with the implications of industrial fishing, aquaculture, aquafarming, and marine pollution, thus exploring not only the appalling consequences and damage for the marine and coastal ecosystems, but for the small communities all over the world whose livelihoods depend on the sea and who have been affected by this approach to the sea as a ‘usable object.’ It is in this context that the authors brilliantly relate the path of the movement of fishermen, a movement born in the seventies in India that has now spread all over the world. Under the banner of food sovereignty, this movement fights the neoliberal predatory assault and view of sea life as mere products, while struggling to establish a different relationship with the sea, a sustainable relationship with this source of life that ensures the protection of both the small coastal communities who ‘have always lived on the sea and of the sea’ and the sheltering of the beauties, habitats, and ecosystems of our mother ocean.\" —Massimo Modonesi, professor of history, sociology, and Latin American studies,director of the Department of Sociology of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Mariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Monica Chilese\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173007\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175213674589,"sku":"9781942173007","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/our_mother_ocean_cover_image.jpg?v=1654987904"},{"product_id":"wages-for-students","title":"Wages for Students","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWages for Students \u003c\/em\u003ewas published anonymously by three activists in the fall of 1975. It was written as “a pamphlet in the form of a blue book” by activists linked to the journal Zerowork during student strikes in Massachusetts and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply influenced by the Wages for Housework Campaign’s analysis of capitalism, and relating to struggles such as Black Power, anticolonial resistance, and the antiwar movements, the authors fought against the role of universities as conceived by capital and its state.  The pamphlet debates the strategies of the student movement at the time and denounces the regime of forced unpaid work imposed every day upon millions of students. \u003cem\u003eWages for Students \u003c\/em\u003ewas an affront to and a campaign against the neoliberalization of the university, at a time when this process was just beginning. Forty years later, the highly profitable business of education not only continues to exploit the unpaid labor of the students, but now also makes them pay for it. Today, when the student debt situation has us all up to our necks, and when students around the world are refusing to continue this collaborationism, we again make this booklet available “for education against education.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new trilingual (English, Spanish, French) edition includes an introduction by George Caffentzis, Monty Neill, and John Willshire-Carrera alongside a transcript of a collective discussion organized by Jakob Jakobsen, Malav Kanuga, Ayreen Anastas, and Rene Gabri, following a public reading of the pamphlet by George Caffentzis, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, Cooper Union students, and other members and friends of 16 Beaver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Wages for Students\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-02-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175237169245,"sku":"9781942173021","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/wagesforstudents.jpg?v=1654987993"},{"product_id":"finally-got-the-news","title":"Finally Got the News","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally Got the News uncovers the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s, a decade when vibrant social movements challenged racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism itself. It combines written contributions from movement participants with original printed materials—from pamphlets to posters, flyers to newspapers—to tell this politically rich and little-known story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe dawn of the 1970s witnessed an explosion of interest in revolutionary ideas and activism. Young people radicalized by the antiwar movement became anti-imperialists, veterans of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements increasingly identified with communism and Pan-Africanism, and women were organizing for autonomy and liberation. While these movements may have different roots, there was also an incredible overlapping and intermingling of activists and ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese diverse movements used printed materials as organizing tools in every political activity, creating a sprawling and remarkable array of printing styles, techniques, and formats. Through the lens of printed materials we can see the real nuts and bolts of revolutionary organizing in an era when thousands of young revolutionaries were attempting to put their beliefs into practices in workplaces and neighborhoods across the U.S. and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Akinyele Umoja, Elly Leary, Badili Ifadoyin Jones-Goodhope, Johanna Brenner, Stephanie Browner, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, Emily K. 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In 2014 his archive was the focus of an exhibition titled “Power to the Vanguard: Original Printed Materials from Revolutionary Movements Around the World, 1963–1987” at Trinosophes in Detroit, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Brad Duncan\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Interference Archive\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175252897885,"sku":"9781942173069","price":39.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/fgn-cover.png?v=1654988062"},{"product_id":"zapantera-negra","title":"Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas (New \u0026 Updated Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA powerful elixir of hope and determination, Zapantera Negra provides a galvanizing presentation of interviews, militant artwork, and original documents from two movements’ struggle for dignity and liberation. When Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, accepted an invitation from the art collective EDELO and Rigo 23 to meet with autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico, they explored the role of revolutionary art in times of distress. Zapantera Negra is the result of their encounter. It unites the bold aesthetics, revolutionary dreams, and dignified declarations of two leading movements that redefine emancipatory politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe artists of the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas were born into a centuries-long struggle against racial capitalism and colonialism, state repression and international war and plunder. 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His profound influence on the pan-Africanist movement and the Black liberation movement in the United States and the English-speaking world spans the ages—and is only growing in an era of renewed anti-imperialist internationalist struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn this unique collection of essays, radical thinkers from across Africa, the United States, and internationally commemorate Cabral’s life and legacy and his relevance to contemporary struggles for self-determination and emancipation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eClaim No Easy Victories\u003c\/em\u003e serves equally as an introduction or reintroduction to a figure and militant history that the rulers and beneficiaries of global racial capitalism would rather see forgotten. Understanding Cabral then and now sheds light on the necessity of grounding radical change in the creation of theory based on the actual conditions within which movements develop. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe depth and dimension of Cabral’s theoretical ideas and revolutionary practice of building popular movements for liberation are assessed by each of the authors and critically reanimated for a new generation of freedom fighters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe book features contributions by: Kali Akuno, Samir Amin, David Austin, Jesse Benjamin, Angela Davis, Bill Fletcher Jr, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Lewis Gordon, Firoze Manji, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, Olúfémi Táíwò—and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFiroze Manji\u003c\/strong\u003e, a Kenyan with more than forty years’ experience in international development, health and human rights, is the founder and publisher of Daraja Press, including host of the online interview series Organizing in the time of Covid-19. 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He is an editorial board member of \u003cem\u003eBlackCommentator.com\u003c\/em\u003e; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eSolidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice\u003c\/em\u003e (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin); and the author of \u003cem\u003eThey're Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“The book's essayists bring some complex and interesting analysis— interlaced with Cabral's biography and an overview of his writings—to the fore. They examine the theories of class suicide and re-Africanisation, which are intrinsically linked to Cabral's revolutionary consciousness. The book’s thorough scrutiny of the impact of Cabral's struggles and African liberation movements bring perspective to his legacy and also draw attention to Black movements in the Americas, where the dialectics of culture and ideology as dissected by Cabral served as an essential tool for the unpacking of social realities. Cabral's global vision of struggle also touches on his fight for the emancipation of women, described as his rejection of that era's 'masculinist and militarist images of struggle'.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Africa Report\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“As a collection it is a timely one and will be valuable for anyone seeking to be introduced or reacquainted with debates about revolution, colonialism and culture, nationalism, and pan-Africanism.”\u003cstrong\u003e Claudia Gastrow\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFeminist Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175264464989,"sku":"9781942173847","price":36.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173847_FC.jpg?v=1712422685"},{"product_id":"in-the-name-of-the-people","title":"In the Name of the People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Name of the People \u003c\/em\u003eis an analysis and reflection on the global populist surge, written from the local forms it takes in the places we inhabit: the United States, Catalonia, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Quebec, Russia, and Ukraine. The upheaval and polarizations caused by populist policies around the world indicates above all the urgency to develop a series of planetary revolutionary interpretations, and to make the necessary connections in order to understand and act in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ghost of the People has returned to the world stage, claiming to be the only force capable of correcting or taking charge of the excesses of the time. The relationship between the collapse of certain orders, the multiplication of civil wars, and the incessant appeal to the People is clear: as the liberal mode of governance experiences a global legitimation crisis, different forms of right and left populism gain strength within the fractures of ever expanding ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePopulism has now become familiar as a global phenomenon: from the eruptions of the far right in the West to the populist capture of the movement of the squares—Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain, the Five Star Movement in Italy, or Our Revolution in the United States—to the electoral victories of Rodrigo Duterte, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Narendra Modi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Brexit, all alongside large populist gains in every European country. While disparate in many ways, these dynamics all share an appeal to combat the rule and sensibility of the elites, with the help of a figure that can channel the affective energies of discontent through operations of identification and exclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd yet, from the Narodniki to the Black Panthers and Zapatistas, to the emancipatory political movements which expressed themselves as the authentic people—Nuit Debout, the 99%, the indignados—history reminds us of revolutionary populisms. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we distinguish the new from the old? What are their limits and potentials? What is the nature of the affective flows that characterize their relations? How do we address the indeterminacy inherent in mass movements and mobilizations, as well as their confusions, fears, and hesitancies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFriends: we pose the question of populism to you because it is the question our time poses to us. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Liaisons\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than a collective, less than a world, Liaisons is an inclination, a tangent, a crossroads of confrontations, encounters, and links, with authors from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Quebec, Russia, and Spain. \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-07-6\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 208 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175288549469,"sku":"9781942173076","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/inthenameof_front_cover.png?v=1654988272"},{"product_id":"abolishing-carceral-society-abolition-a-journal-of-insurgent-politics","title":"Abolishing Carceral Society (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE BOLD VOICES AND INSPIRING VISIONS OF TODAY’S REVOLUTIONARY ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond border walls and prison cells—carceral society is everywhere. In a time of mass incarceration, immigrant detention and deportation, rising forms of racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence, and deep ecological and economic crises, abolitionists everywhere seek to understand and radically dismantle the interlocking institutions of oppression and transform the world in which we find ourselves. These oppressions have many different names and histories and so, to make the impossible possible, abolition articulates a range of languages and experiences between (and within) different systems of oppression in society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003epresents the bold voices and inspiring visions of today’s revolutionary abolitionist movements struggling against capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, ecological crisis, prisons, and borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first of a series of publications, the Abolition Collective renews and boldly extends the tradition of “abolition-democracy” espoused by figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, and Joel Olson. Through study and publishing, the Abolition Collective supports radical scholarly and activist research, recognizing that the most transformative scholarship is happening both in the movements themselves and in the communities with whom they organize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003efeatures a range of creative styles and approaches from activists, artists, and scholars to create spaces for collective experimentation with the urgent questions of our time.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough essays, interviews, visual art, and poetry, each presented in an accessible manner, the work engages with the meaning, practices, and politics of abolitionism in a range of historical and geographical contexts, including: prison and police abolitionism, border abolition, decolonization, slavery abolitionism, antistatism, antiracism, labor organizing, anticapitalism, radical feminism, queer and trans politics, Indigenous people’s politics, sex worker organizing, migrant activism, social ecology, animal rights and liberation, and radical pedagogy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003eis an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom. The pieces in this collection provoke new questions that inform resistance strategies, and deepen our understandings of the systems we are seeking to abolish and the social relations we are working to transform. This collection will be a profoundly useful tool in classrooms and activist groups. The conversation happening in Abolition is essential reading for those participating in the thorny, complex debates about how we dismantle structures of state violence and domination. The writers and artists whose work makes up the inaugural issue of Abolition, rigorously explore the most pressing questions emerging in liberation struggles.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003eis a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. Many of the submissions, however, are less concerned with dismantling what exists than they are with taking seriously that abolition is a project interested in building and in practical organizing. This comes through particularly in David Turner's essay, among others. Abolishing Carceral Society asks us some questions that we sometimes prefer to ignore, like ‘What does it mean to transform human relations?’ This inaugural issue from Abolition pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, founder of Project NIA, and cofounder of Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls \u0026amp; Young Women, and Love \u0026amp; Protect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Abolition is a crucial contribution to radical social movements. While fighting against prisons and the death penalty as instruments of class rule, the journal amplifies the voices of the incarcerated, actively engages with organizers on the ground, and builds bridges across multiple movements. The first issue, \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"From slavery to prisons, abolition has always been a project of courage and breadth. Abolishing Carceral Society brings to bear the reflective, transformative urgency needed to confront today's violent world order. Of the struggle, by the struggle, and for the struggle: this auspicious collection offers not answers but pathways down which contemporary abolitionists travel en route to a future freedom. Check out their words, scope their visions—heed their calls.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003econtinues the radical, democratic tradition started by abolitionists to speak truth to power. In these dismal political times, it is a matter of the greatest urgency to create and sustain a counter-public sphere and an alternative print culture to sustain and expand American democracy.  This remarkable and inspiring advocacy journal is poised to do precisely that for democratic activists as well as the broader lay public.\" Manisha Sinha, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Abolition Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising, the collective seeks to bring radical perspectives to a wide readership within and beyond academe. With the publication of its inaugural issue we are treated to the very best of revolutionary analysis.  Anybody interested in upending a carceral and colonial order will find plenty of inspiration here. Something we all need and do well to pass along.\" Steven Salaita, author of \u003cem\u003eInter\/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Abolition Journal \u003c\/em\u003eproject offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. It aims to combine an abolitionist message with a democratic production process that prioritizes participation of those directly affected by incarceration. What a welcome and needed approach! I am confident the project will help intellectuals build ties of solidarity across race, class, gender, nationality, and other borders that block liberation and in its finest moments will help teach us, as Mumia says, to ‘fight with light in our eyes.\" James Kilgore, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003eis a bold journal mapping new roads out of the inferno in which we live. As the editors’ Manifesto tells us, ‘abolition’ is a key strategy out of our carceral, slave-like society—the prison being the pivotal place for the perpetuation of an unjust political system. But the journal also sheds light on the many ways in which we’re imprisoned beyond the prison’s walls. With scholarly articles, poems and artwork, in a beautifully designed text, it asks us to open our eyes and support a liberation struggle against jails and jailers.\" George Caffentzis, author of \u003cem\u003eIn Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Blood For Oil: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle and War, 1998–2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFROM THE BOOK: MANIFESTO FOR ABOLITION\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbolitionist politics is not about what is possible, but about making the impossible a reality. Ending slavery appeared to be an impossible challenge for Sojourner Truth, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, and others, and yet they struggled for it anyway. Today we seek to abolish a number of seemingly immortal institutions, drawing inspiration from those who have sought the abolition of all systems of domination, exploitation, and oppression—from Jim Crow laws and prisons to patriarchy and capitalism. The shockingly unfinished character of these struggles can be seen from some basic facts about our present. The 85 richest people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest half; more African American men are in prison, jail, or parole, than were enslaved in 1850; we have altered the chemical composition of our atmosphere threatening all life on this planet; female and trans* people are significantly more likely than cisgender men to be victims of sexual and domestic violence; rich nations support military interventions into ‘developing’ countries as cover for neo-colonial resource exploitation. Recognizing that the institutions we fight against are both interconnected and unique, we refuse to take an easy path of reveling in abstract ideals while accepting mere reforms in practice. Instead, we seek to understand the specific power dynamics within and between these systems so we can make the impossible possible; so we can bring the entire monstrosity down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe must ask questions that are intimately connected with abolitionist movements if we are to understand these dynamics in ways that are strategically useful. How do those in power use differences of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and class to divide and exploit us? How do we build bridges across these divides through our organizing? Activists on the ground ask such questions often, but rarely do those within universities become involved. Instead, academia has more often been an opponent to abolitionist movements, going back to the co-constitution of early universities with colonialism and slavery, and the development of racial science and capitalist ideologies. Academic journals have functioned to maintain a culture of conformity, legitimated with myths of ‘political neutrality’ and ‘meritocracy.’ At the same time, colleges and universities have always been terrains of struggle, as radical organizers have found ways to expropriate their resources: from W.E.B. DuBois’s abolitionist science at Fisk University to the Black Campus Movement of the 1960s. Inspired by them, we refuse to abandon the resources of academia to those who perpetuate the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, we are creating a new project, centered around Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics—for research, publishing, and study that encourage us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur journal’s title has multiple reference points in a tense relation with one another. ‘Abolition’ refers partly to the historical and contemporary movements that have identified themselves as ‘abolitionist’: those against slavery, prisons, the wage system, animal and earth exploitation, racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence, and the death penalty, among others. But we also refer to all revolutionary movements, insofar as they have abolitionist elements – whether the abolition of patriarchy, capitalism, heteronormativity, ableism, colonialism, the state, or white supremacy. Rather than just seeking to abolish a list of oppressive institutions, we aim to support studies of the entanglement of different systems of oppression, not to erase the tensions between different movements, but to create spaces for collective experimentation with those tensions. Instead of assuming one homogenous subject as our audience (e.g., “abolitionists of the world unite!”), we write for multiple, contingent, ambivalent subjectivities—for people coming from different places, living and struggling in different circumstances, and in the process of figuring out who we are and untangling these knots to fight for a more just and liberated world. With Fanon, we are “endlessly creating” ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbolition takes cues from the abolition-democracy espoused by figures like W.E.B Du Bois, Angela Davis, and Joel Olson. Our orientation toward academic insurgency builds upon the struggles of the Black campus movement against the White University, the American Indian movement against the Colonial University, feminist and queer movements against the Hetero-Patriarchal University, and anarchist and communist movements against the Capitalist University. As efforts to revolutionize academia originated and drew their lifeblood from movements outside and across the boundaries of academic institutions, today we recognize that our journal’s radical aspirations must be similarly grounded. We must therefore facilitate collaborations of radical academics with and in support of movements that are struggling against oppressive regimes and for the creation of alternative futures. Recognizing that the best movement-relevant intellectual work is happening both in the movements themselves and in the communities with whom they organize (e.g., in dispossessed neighborhoods and prisons), the journal aims to support scholars whose research amplifies such grassroots intellectual activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn tension with struggles against and beyond academia, we recognize the desires of academics to survive within it, for the access to resources that inclusion can offer. Rather than accepting such desires as eternal necessities, we foresee that the success of abolitionist projects will change the availability of resources for intellectual activity as well as what we understand as a ‘resource.’ To help academics grapple with transgressing academia’s boundaries, our journal aims to provide some legitimacy within the dominant value practices of academia (e.g., publication requirements for hiring, tenure, and promotion), while simultaneously pushing the limits of those practices. All of our publications will be accessible, free, and open access, refusing the paywalls of the publishing industry. We will also produce hard-copy versions for circulation to communities lacking internet access. Yet, we are not abandoning peer review—sharing writing with respected comrades and giving each other feedback before wider circulation—which can be useful for movements to strengthen and amplify their intellectual activities. As peer review is ultimately based on relationships of trust, we ask why academics on the opposite side of our struggles are our ‘peers.’ Instead, we commit to building relationships with activist-intellectuals for whom a new kind of peer review can serve as an insurgent tool to expropriate academia’s resources for knowledge production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Abolition’ as a concept, process, and reality becomes the common ground upon which we meet, struggle, and join together in solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e—The Abolition Collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: The Abolition Collective\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-08-3\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: LeftWingBooks\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175288582237,"sku":"9781942173083","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/abolition_cover_web.jpg?v=1654988276"},{"product_id":"writings-from-a-greek-prison-32-steps-or-correspondence-from-the-house-of-the-dead","title":"Writings from a Greek Prison: 32 Steps, or Correspondence from the House of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWritings from a Greek Prison\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary work of biting realism. Tasos Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a blur of memoir, social commentary, free verse, and a glossary of the idiom used by inmates in Greek prisons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA political prisoner in Greece from 2012 to 2017, Theofilou’s work centers on exposing the conditions of widespread exploitation and social struggle that persist in Greece as a result of the debt crisis—in prisons as well as in mainstream society. Common Notions’ new imprint, ΔΙΠΛΗ \/ DIPLI, taking its name from the Greek word “double,” refers to the way in which prisoners from different prisons communicate by way of the double telephone line. With this strategy, two to five prisoners in different locations call the same telephone number at an agreed upon time and the owner of that telephone number, living outside prison, connects them together. 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While in prison, Theofilou also authored a book on Attica as part of the international solidarity with the U.S. prisoners’ strike on the forty-fifth anniversary of the prison uprising.\" Theofilou addressed the Court of Appeal on April 28, 2017 with the following statement in his plea: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"My prosecution is part of a comprehensive effort by the Greek political personnel to introduce, implement, and enforce a Law and Order doctrine over the past two and a half decades—an effort which has intensified from 2009–2015. This is a doctrine that entwines the Ministry of Public Order and the Ministry of Justice and is imported by the Greek government as a policy package from the United States. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI repeat once again, and conclude, that I did not commit the offenses for which I am accused. I did commit, however, the one offense that includes all others. I am an anarchist. In the class war, I chose the side of the excluded and the underprivileged, the prosecuted and the accursed, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy imprisonment is, on the one hand, the only natural consequence of that choice, and on the other hand, one more field of struggle.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Tasos Theofilou\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-12-0\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175288615005,"sku":"9781942173120","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/theofilou_writingsfrom_final.jpg?v=1654988277"},{"product_id":"hope-against-hope-writings-on-ecological-crisis","title":"Hope Against Hope: Writings On Ecological Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClimate disaster is here. Capitalism can’t fix it, not even with a Green New Deal. Our only hope against hope is disaster communism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent as ever, our imagination and programs for transformation lag. The disasters are already here, and the crises, longstanding, are ongoing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHope Against Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, the Out of the Woods collective investigates the critical relation between climate change and capitalism and calls for the expansion of our conceptual toolbox to organize within and against ecological crisis characterized by deepening inequality, rising far-right movements, and—relatedly—more frequent and devastating disasters. While much of environmentalist and leftist discourse in this political moment remain oriented toward horizons that repeat and renew racist, anti-migrant, nationalist, and capitalist assumptions, Out of the Woods charts a revolutionary course adequate to our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the renewed political orientation \u003cem\u003eHope Against Hope \u003c\/em\u003eexpounds is an abolitionist approach to border imperialism, reactionary ecology, and state violence that underpins many green solutions and modes of understanding nature. It reminds us of the frequent moments and movements of solidarity emerging in the ruins all around us. Their stunning conclusion to the disarray of politics in our seemingly end times is the urgency of creating what Out of the Woods calls “disaster communism”—the collective power to transform our future political horizons from the ruins and establish a climate future based in common life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of the Woods is a transnational political research and theory collective, a loose grouping of decolonial, small-c communist, antiracist queer-feminist thinkers working together to think through the problem of ecological crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of the Woods began in 2014 as a collective investigation into the various historical, contemporary, and future relationships between capitalism and climate change. We are exhausted by the way in which hegemonic ecological politics in the so-called Global North oscillates between a return to a romantic naturalism with reactionary tendencies and a pragmatic green capitalism. We are also inspired by and seek to amplify real movements abolishing the present state of things: survivors of Hurricane Katrina, Indigenous water protectors opposing transnational pipelines, migrants fighting border imperialism, struggles for Black lives in Ferguson and safe water in Flint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe recognize the need for a much wider lens on both the breadth of ecological crisis and the historical forms through which it perpetuates exploitation, dispossession, exhaustion, and maybe insurrection. Out of the Woods is evolving with the intention of further multiplying our positions against homogeneity. We invite you to contact us, and to think, write, and struggle with us. As disaster engulfs spaces and times around us, what will it take to get out of the woods, together?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The global ecological crisis is not going to happen in some distant future, in 2050 or 2100 or when computer projections tell us the glaciers may have melted. It is happening now, all around us. And it builds on and intensifies long histories of extraction, exploitation, extinction, and genocide. How do we fight despair, nihilism, and an eco-fascist politics of the armed lifeboat in the face of this gathering but unequally experienced storm? In this collection of urgent essays, the Out of the Woods collective argues that hope emerges from the acts of solidarity in the face of crisis that they term ‘disaster communism.’ Surveying four key terrain of social struggle around the ecological crisis—borders, nature, futures, and strategies—Out of the Woods plot an environmental politics grounded in antiracist, decolonial, and anticapitalist movements and solidarities. There is no better guide to building a future of collective possibility out of the ruins of the present than Hope against Hope.” —Ashley Dawson, author of \u003cem\u003ePeople’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eExtreme Cities and Extinction: A Radical History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection from Out of the Woods represents some of the most refreshing thinking on the politics of climate change and ecology. It is also the record of a collaborative project that arose from the dynamic conjunctures of radical theory and social movements, written for understanding and worldmaking rather than clicks or commerce. As climate change emerges as an undeniable fact demanding of solutions, Hope Against Hope is an important contribution to an honest examination of the interests, desires and futures which might be served by the range of answers offered across the political spectrum.”  —Angela Mitropoulos, \u003cem\u003eContract \u0026amp; Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHope Against Hope \u003c\/em\u003eis an experimental book that shares important initiatives and dreams to work against the hell of current capitalist climate catastrophe and the worlds beyond that this hell will create. In doing so, it brings hope back from the future. 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Oh, yes, Out of the Woods claims, a new world already exists and is set to abolish the present state of things!” —Gustavo Esteva, author of \u003cem\u003eGrassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto \u003c\/em\u003eand founder of the Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Out of the Woods\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-20-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 272 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175307685981,"sku":"9781942173205","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/hopeagainsthope.jpg?v=1654988427"},{"product_id":"the-weapon-of-organization-mario-tronti-s-political-revolution-in-marxism","title":"The Weapon Of Organization: Mario Tronti’s Political Revolution In Marxism","description":"\u003cp\u003eNever before translated texts powerfully present Italian autonomist Marxist Mario Tronti’s resonance with contemporary questions of revolutionary organization. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMario Tronti was the principal theorist of the radical political movement of the 1960s known in Italy as operaismo and in the Anglophone world as Italian workerism, a current which went on to inform the development of autonomist Marxism. 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Tronti’s work in the 1960s also furnished important building blocks for a Marxist feminist critique of unwaged labor—as developed by Mariarosa dalla Costa, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, and many others working on social reproduction theory—as Tronti showed how capitalist control extends beyond the factory to all of society. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have echoed Tronti’s calls for a radical antagonism “within and against” institutions and the state. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weapon of Organization \u003c\/em\u003eis a crucial introduction to Tronti, presenting a variety of never-before-translated texts—personal letters, public talks, published articles. 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Nearly everywhere, we are caught in a crumbling health system that furthers our misery and subordination to the structural violence of capital and a state that only intensifies our general precarity. Can we build the capacity and necessary infrastructure to heal ourselves and transform the societal conditions that continue to mentally and physically harm us? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmidst the perpetual crises of capitalism is a careful resistance—organized by medical professionals and community members, students and workers, citizens and migrants. \u003cem\u003eFor Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity—Reflections from Greece \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the landscape of care spaces coordinated by autonomous collectives in Greece. These projects operate in fierce resistance to austerity, state violence and abandonment, and the neoliberal structure of the healthcare industry that are failing people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor Health Autonomy \u003c\/em\u003eis a powerful collection of first-hand accounts of those who join together to build new possibilities of care and develop concrete alternatives based on the collective ability of communities and care workers to replace our dependency on police and prisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eABOUT CARENOTES COLLECTIVE \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntensifying inequality and violence have heightened the need to deepen our capacity to resist, offer concrete alternatives, and reproduce ourselves in the process. CareNotes Collective organizes directly on this terrain and seeks to record and amplify the experiences of those struggling for health autonomy in their own communities. 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How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger would we be? More importantly, how much stronger would our communities be?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self\u003c\/em\u003e, Sundus Abdul Hadi turns a critical and inventive eye to the notion of care and how it relates to social justice. In contrast to the billion-dollar industry of self-care, Abdul Hadi identifies care as a necessary practice—rooted in self, community, and the world—in the collective process of decolonization, empowerment, and liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbdul Hadi explores the role of art in building regenerative narratives to confront and undo systemic oppression and trauma. Weaving in the work of visionary transcultural artists who engage the liberatory intersections of struggle and care, Abdul Hadi centers the voices of those most-often relegated to the margins and emphasizes the importance of creating brave spaces for their stories and art. The transformative power of care exists in these spaces, building a foundation for a world in desperate need of healing and change. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self \u003c\/em\u003eturns upside down and inside out the meanings of self-care, illuminating for us decolonial futures through our collective healing. Sundus Abdul Hadi invites us into the most intimate valleys of her own healing journey—taking us gently by the hand to show us the visionary work of artists while rooting us in the fertile soils nurtured by Black, Indigenous, anticolonial, and feminist thinkers—and pointing to the revolutionary potential of transnationalism. \u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self \u003c\/em\u003eleft me elated, floating a bit with the buoyancy that hope offers.” Noura Erakat, author of \u003cem\u003eJustice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSundus Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi-Canadian multimedia artist and writer. Born in the UAE, she was raised and educated in Montreal, where she earned a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History and a Masters in Media Studies. Her work critically engages the concepts of  care, community and struggle. 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That the capitalist system and its political apparatus are degenerate and parasitic, founded on a racist-imperialist infrastructure, has been true for a long time. But now, suddenly the COVID-19 crisis and racist killings have exposed these realities in exceptional and unprecedented ways. It’s clear that the people's only means of survival is to generate new structures of militance and of care, emerging from within communities themselves, which can become modules of a just social order. The tools proposed in these pages—notably social investigations—are exactly the methods which can be explored in this historic cause. CounterPower offer us an important and extremely topical publication to further our struggle.” Robert Biel, author of \u003cem\u003eThe New Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Entropy of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom The Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we get free? How can we free ourselves, our communities, our environments, our societies? And what will this freedom look like? While the present moment holds incredible possibilities to organize for our collective liberation, there are powerful forces readily willing and able to summon all available weapons of repression to contain and suppress revolutionary movements. Our present civilization, argued Herbert Marcuse, always must defend itself “against the specter of a world which could be free.”[1] It is our task to give this specter an earthly form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe question of freedom is central to all revolutionary movements. It is at the root of everyday struggles against white supremacist colonialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, the authoritarian state, and every other form of systemic oppression. But we have to ask, again, what will freedom look like? Often, the realities we each face constrain the ways we can answer this question, so we ask it in pieces: How do we provide for each other? How do we protect, nurture, care, love, and create? How do we liberate ourselves from the hardships of enclosure, exploitation, and dependency that are imposed on our minds, bodies, communities, and environments? How do we free our sense of freedom, so that it is not a set of individual and extractive privileges, but is instead the grounding for a communal form of abundance?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere we stand today is the result of centuries of struggle between forces of liberation and forces of domination. Governments and corporations pour toxins into bodies, minds, and environments, creating an unsustainable world of individualism, disposability, and extraction that festers with antiblack, heteropatriarchal, and settler-colonial violence. The powers that structure our “civilization” have brought the entire planetary system to the precipice of ecological collapse, while at the same time preparing the ground for resurgent forms of fascism that exploit ordinary people’s frustrations by fragmenting the oppressed with xenophobic and antiblack sentiments. Imperialism—justified under the guise of multiculturalism and sustainable development—now increasingly must contend with forms of right-wing nationalism and white supremacy promoting a vision of the future in which outsiders of any sort are walled off by frightened and insecure attempts to recreate a mythic past of white, heteropatriarchal bliss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an individual, it can seem almost impossible to confront such massive forces of global devastation and reactionary violence. In isolation from one another, as individualized consumers, workers, voters, and families, it is easy for avoidance and apathy to close in and keep us from seeing that, together, side-by-side, we can turn our faces toward the storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolutions are made not to get more (or, of course, less) of what we already have,” André Gorz reminds us, “but to get something altogether different which will put an end to conditions that are felt to be unbearable.”[2] The aim of social revolution is to succeed in creating a different way of life, one that can liberate the immense creative potential of a humanity united in its diversity. Social revolution aims to nurture new sensibilities about how life can and should be lived, and to establish the conditions for their flourishing. Social revolution is not just seizing power or tearing down the system, it is a passage between worlds.[3] We need analyses, visions, and strategies to guide us from this world to the next, based on an honest assessment of the material realities we face. Our values—freedom, equality, autonomy, solidarity—and the histories of struggle past and present, can help us chart a path toward liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[1] Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (New York: Vintage Books, 1962), 85.\u003cbr\u003e\n[2] André Gorz, Socialism and Revolution (London: Allen Lane, 1975), 11.\u003cbr\u003e\n[3] Georges Fontenis, “Manifesto of Libertarian Communism (1953),” The Anarchist Library, https:\/\/theanarchistlibrary.org\/library\/georges-fontenis-manifesto-of-libertarian-communism.pdf\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: CounterPower\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173212\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 240 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175351103581,"sku":"9781942173212","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/organizing_for_autonomy_0.png?v=1654988780"},{"product_id":"colors-of-the-cage-a-memoir-of-an-indian-prison","title":"Colors of the Cage: A Memoir of an Indian Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful eyewitness account of life in an Indian prison shows how abolition is necessary to achieve a democratic transformation of society. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn May 2007, Arun Ferreira, a democratic rights activist, was picked up at a railway station in western India, detained by the court, and condemned to prison for an expanding list of crimes: criminal conspiracy, murder, possession of arms, and rioting, among others added during his detention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most notorious prisons in India, Arun Ferreira was constantly abused and tortured. Over the next several years, each of the ten cases slapped against him fell apart. At long last, Ferreira was acquitted of all charges. As he exited the prison, moments away from freedom, he was rearrested by plainclothes police. He never got to glimpse his family waiting for him just outside the prison gates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn stark and riveting detail, Ferreira recounts the horrors he faced in prison—torture, beatings, the general air of hopelessness—and the small consolations that kept hope alive—strikes and solidarity among inmates. His memoir is a timely reminder that across the globe policing and incarceration are institutions in desperate need of being dismantled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArun Ferreira, a human rights lawyer and member of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, was branded and arrested as the leader of the propaganda and communications wing of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2007. He was acquitted of all charges in 2014 only to be re-arrested in a coordinated police crackdown in 2018. He is currently facing a host of charges, including sedition and terrorism under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a draconian piece of anti-terror legislation with a wide ambit and vague definition used to target academics, lawyers and human rights defenders expressing dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eColors of the Cage\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable for anyone interested in understanding the failures of India’s criminal justice system. Arun Ferreira’s first-hand testimony makes apparent the arbitrary and pernicious nature of the procedures governing the lives of political prisoners often subject to especially unlawful practices. Ferreira conveys with particular force the devastating effects of incarceration on families torn apart and abandoned to an uncertain future. His account of the ruinous effects of post-9\/11 anti-terror laws is instructive and applies far beyond the Indian context.” Nermeen Shaikh, Cohost of \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Now!\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In this chilling account of the uses and abuses of the law by agencies of the state, Arun Ferreira describes the harrowing treatment faced by political prisoners in an Indian prison today. Alongside, he provides a deeply moving story of the bonds of solidarity that develop between prisoners from widely separated groups and social strata. This is a very different Discovery of India that demands our attention.” Partha Chatterjee, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“While the rightward-plummeting Indian state uses harsh incarceration and charges of ‘anti-national’ to demonize minorities and silence any critics, social justice and human rights activists, journalists, or intellectuals who dare to challenge the cruelly iniquitous realities behind its development propaganda or contradict a brazenly dishonest partisan news media, new waves of resistance rise against India’s ever more openly triumphalist ethnonationalist-majoritarian violence, both physical and administrative. Anyone aware or affected should get the chance to hear from courageous people like Arun Ferreira; his stunning memoir reveals the poignant human texture as well as the political implications of his prison experience. The need for such bearing of witness has only grown more timely. For readers in the West concerned about the rise of global fascism, and especially young readers in the South Asian diaspora seeking connections between their political\/cultural contexts, accounts such as this one are crucial.” Maia Ramnath, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Anarchism: An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrior information of officers’ transfers was crucial to predicting our treatment in prison and was often the subject of discussion. Due to archaic prison rules, the subjective whims of prison officials ruled our lives. The power of these officials permeated every aspect of our lives. For instance, only the jailer of the yard could permit an inmate to write more than the single letter per month stipulated in the manual. These discretionary powers made daily life in prison extremely arbitrary. While one jailer would allow a visit to the library, another would ask for the superintendent’s permission to be obtained. While one would allow books and magazines to arrive by post, the other would not. The same went for the superintendent of the prison. While one superintendent encouraged me to pursue academics, his replacement created numerous obstacles. Hence, a reasonable officer on duty was an essential condition for a relatively peaceful incarceration. Transfers of officers would always upset this status quo and force one to get attuned to the desires and tastes of the new man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe new jailer assigned to our yard in place of Taksande was a young man who was very soon nicknamed Dabangg. Like the Bollywood character he was named after, this officer regularly trotted around the yard with his sleeves rolled up, swinging his baton. This became even more pronounced if a female jail employee or inmate was in sight. Dabangg would, at the slightest opportunity to prop up his macho image, immediately move into action and pounce fiercely on the nearest hapless victim. This would also be with an eye on making a quick buck from those concerned. A mobile phone unearthed, contraband seized, an urgent message to be passed on or cash to be received meant that Dabangg would collect protection money from all those concerned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf someone needed to be taught a lesson in discipline, Dabangg would not hesitate to unleash his belt. His style of quick action and apparent justice through such dealings made him popular with many inmates, especially the ones who could pay. Each jailer has his own set of cronies, inmates who would do the deals for extracting money from the victim. When a particular jailer ruled, his cronies had a free hand. Officers’ transfers realigned and disturbed these relations too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Arun Ferreira\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-942173-13-7\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 176 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175351136349,"sku":"9781942173137","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/colorsofthecage.jpg?v=1746042844"},{"product_id":"making-abolitionist-worlds-proposals-for-a-world-on-fire","title":"Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does an abolitionist world look like? Insights from today’s international abolitionist movement reveal a world to win. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e gathers key insights and interventions from today’s international abolitionist movement to pose the question: what does an abolitionist world look like? The Abolition Collective investigates the core challenges to social justice and the liberatory potential of social movements today from a range of personal, political, and analytical points of view, underscoring the urgency of an abolitionist politics that places prisons at the center of its critique and actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to centering and amplifying the continual struggles of incarcerated people who are actively working to transform prisons from the inside, Making Abolitionist Worlds animates the idea of abolitionist democracy and demands a radical re-imagining of the meaning and practice of democracy. Abolition Collective brings us to an Israeli prison for a Palestinian feminist reflection on incarceration within settler colonialism; to protest movements in Hong Kong and elsewhere, who use “abolition democracy” to advocate for the abolition of the police; to the growing culture in the United States of “aggrieved whiteness,” which trucks in fear, anger, victimhood, and a need for vengeance to maintain white supremacy; to the punitive landscapes that extend from the incarceration of political prisoners to the mass deportations and detentions along the U.S. southern border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e shows us that the paths forged today for a world in formation are rooted in antiracism, decolonization, anticapitalism, abolitionist feminism, and queer liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics is a collectively-run project supporting radical scholarly and activist ideas, poetry, and art, publishing and disseminating work that encourages us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research articles, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative artworks is immensely important to the work of committed scholars, activists and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates and mobilizes here.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sinews-of-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula\" title=\"Laleh Khalili\"\u003eLaleh Khalili\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTime in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Making Abolitionist Worlds is an urgent reminder that theorizing and practicing abolition must take place across prison walls and the boundaries imposed by the colonial state, heteropatriarchy, settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism. Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/jackie-wang\" title=\"Jackie Wang\"\u003eJackie Wang\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/carceral-capitalism\" title=\"Carceral Capitalism\"\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As the world we know is shattering more rapidly than we might have ever imagined, comes \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, an urgent call to build the new. These pieces movingly remind us that liberation will not transpire solely through opposition; it demands radical inquiry, imagination, creation. This collection brilliantly illustrates a core truth: we don't need ‘alternatives to incarceration,’ we need a wildly recreated society in which incarceration is unthinkable. \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Words\u003c\/em\u003e will nourish and fuel struggles for transformation.” Maya Schenwar, author of \u003cem\u003eLocked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better\u003c\/em\u003e and coauthor with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e of P\u003cem\u003erison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Making Abolitionist Worlds is a rich and compelling mixed-genre collection of radical perspectives that makes an urgent contribution to abolitionist world-making. Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis—what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed!\" J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of \u003cem\u003eHawaiian Blood\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eParadoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Indigenous Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for Abolition Collective\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolishing-carceral-society-abolition-a-journal-of-insurgent-politics\" title=\"Abolishing Carceral Society\"\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom. The pieces in this collection provoke new questions that inform resistance strategies, and deepen our understandings of the systems we are seeking to abolish and the social relations we are working to transform. This collection will be a profoundly useful tool in classrooms and activist groups. The conversation happening in Abolition is essential reading for those participating in the thorny, complex debates about how we dismantle structures of state violence and domination. The writers and artists whose work makes up the inaugural issue of Abolition, rigorously explore the most pressing questions emerging in liberation struggles.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. Many of the submissions, however, are less concerned with dismantling what exists than they are with taking seriously that abolition is a project interested in building and in practical organizing. This comes through particularly in David Turner's essay, among others. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e asks us some questions that we sometimes prefer to ignore, like ‘What does it mean to transform human relations?’ This inaugural issue from Abolition pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, founder of Project NIA, and cofounder of Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls \u0026amp; Young Women, and Love \u0026amp; Protect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Abolition is a crucial contribution to radical social movements. While fighting against prisons and the death penalty as instruments of class rule, the journal amplifies the voices of the incarcerated, actively engages with organizers on the ground, and builds bridges across multiple movements. The first issue, \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From slavery to prisons, abolition has always been a project of courage and breadth. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e brings to bear the reflective, transformative urgency needed to confront today's violent world order. Of the struggle, by the struggle, and for the struggle: this auspicious collection offers not answers but pathways down which contemporary abolitionists travel en route to a future freedom. Check out their words, scope their visions—heed their calls.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e continues the radical, democratic tradition started by abolitionists to speak truth to power. In these dismal political times, it is a matter of the greatest urgency to create and sustain a counter-public sphere and an alternative print culture to sustain and expand American democracy. This remarkable and inspiring advocacy journal is poised to do precisely that for democratic activists as well as the broader lay public.\" Manisha Sinha, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Abolition Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising, the collective seeks to bring radical perspectives to a wide readership within and beyond academe. With the publication of its inaugural issue we are treated to the very best of revolutionary analysis. Anybody interested in upending a carceral and colonial order will find plenty of inspiration here. Something we all need and do well to pass along.\" Steven Salaita, author of \u003cem\u003eInter\/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Abolition Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. It aims to combine an abolitionist message with a democratic production process that prioritizes participation of those directly affected by incarceration. What a welcome and needed approach! I am confident the project will help intellectuals build ties of solidarity across race, class, gender, nationality, and other borders that block liberation and in its finest moments will help teach us, as Mumia says, to ‘fight with light in our eyes.\" James Kilgore, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold journal mapping new roads out of the inferno in which we live. As the editors’ Manifesto tells us, ‘abolition’ is a key strategy out of our carceral, slave-like society—the prison being the pivotal place for the perpetuation of an unjust political system. But the journal also sheds light on the many ways in which we’re imprisoned beyond the prison’s walls. With scholarly articles, poems and artwork, in a beautifully designed text, it asks us to open our eyes and support a liberation struggle against jails and jailers.\" George Caffentzis, author of In \u003cem\u003eLetters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Blood For Oil: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle and War, 1998–2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175351169117,"sku":"9781942173175","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/making_abolitionist_worlds.jpg?v=1654988783"},{"product_id":"there-is-no-unhappy-revolution-the-communism-of-destitution","title":"There Is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a time of crisis, Marcello Tarì reclaims the revolutionary task of making life worth living. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a time of ongoing political, economic, and climate crisis, can we afford our collective unhappiness any longer? There Is No Unhappy Revolution gives expression to the age of revolution unfolding before us. With equal parts sophistication and raw urgency, Marcello Tarì identifies the original moments as well as the powerful disruptive and creative content haunting our times like a specter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne hundred years after the October Revolution, amidst our current civilizational crisis, is it still possible to think and build communism? Yes, Tarì responds, provided we radically rethink the tradition of revolutionary movements that have followed one century to another. Offering both a militant philosophy and a philosophy of militancy, he deftly confronts the different contemporary movements from the Argentinean insurrection of 2001 to Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish Indignados, the French movement against the labor law, and the Arab spring, resurrecting and renewing a lineage of revolutionary thought, from Walter Benjamin to Giorgio Agamben, that promises to make life livable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarcello Tarì is a “barefoot” researcher of contemporary struggles and movements. He is author of numerous essays and books in French and Italian, including \u003cem\u003eIl ghiaccio era sottile: Per una storia dell’autonomia\u003c\/em\u003e (Derive Approdi, 2012) and \u003cem\u003eNon esiste la rivoluzione infelice: Il comunismo della destituzione\u003c\/em\u003e (Derive Approdi, 2017); as well as \u003cem\u003eAutonomie!: Italie, les années 1970 \u003c\/em\u003e(La Fabrique, 2011) and \u003cem\u003eIl n y a pas de révolution malheureuse: Le communisme de la destitution\u003c\/em\u003e (Editions Divergences, 2019). Tarì has lived in the last few years between France and Italy. \u003cem\u003eThere Is No Unhappy Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e is his first book in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat Are People Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It is hard today to escape the perception that financial violence and fascism are suffocating every possibility of happiness in a plural world. There is No Unhappy Revolution shows a possible way out from this despair, though an important line of escape: friendship. Indeed, friends are those who have nothing and nevertheless own everything. The revolution to which Marcello Tarì refers urgently names the ‘plurality of worlds’ in joy and in common.” Franco “Bifo” Berardi, author of \u003cem\u003eFuturability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A bold and inquisitive attempt to rethink militancy and revolution through the paradigm of destituent power, outside of any progressive investment in governing the present. Beyond the end of communism, Tarì sketches the figure of a communism of the end, threading its way through contemporary insurgencies and unmanageable forms of life.” Alberto Toscano, author of \u003cem\u003eFanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“In There Is No Unhappy Revolution, as if revolution were the only happiness we might pursue, Marcello Tari makes a powerful case for the persistent questioning and existential interruption that accompanies that pursuit, and fuels it, and constitutes and ruptures its vagrant, open end.” Fred Moten, author of \u003cem\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Marcello Tarì\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175351365725,"sku":"9781942173168","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/there_is_no_happy_reuolut.jpg?v=1654988784"},{"product_id":"feminicide-and-global-accumulation-frontline-struggles-to-resist-the-violence-of-patriarchy-and-capitalism","title":"Feminicide and Global Accumulation: Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe global struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy revealed by the Black and Indigenous women and trans communities leading its resistance. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women’s organizations fighting against violence—interpersonal, state sanctioned, and economic—that is both endemic to the global economy and the contemporary devalued status of racialized women, trans, and gender non-conforming communties in the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy show how crucially linked the land, water, and other resource extraction projects that crisscross the planet are to devaluing labor and nature and how central Black and Indigenous women and trans leadership is to its resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is based on the first ever International Forum on Feminicide among ethnicized and racialized groups—which brought together activists and researchers from Colombia, Guatemala, Italy, Brazil, Iran, Guinea Bissau, Bolivia, Canada, the U.S., Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, among other countries in the world to represent different social movements and share concrete stories, memories, experiences and knowledge of their struggles against racism, capitalism and patriarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e reflects, in a collective fabric, the communitarian and enraged struggles of women, trans, and gender non-conforming communities who commit themselves to the transformation of their communities by directly challenging the murder and assassination of women and violence in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/search\/content?f%5B0%5D=sm_field_author%3ASilvia%20Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e is a lauded feminist, Marxist theorist and author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/caliban-and-witch\"\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/revolution-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/witches-witch-hunting-and-women\"\u003eWitches, Witch-Hunting, and Women\u003c\/a\u003e among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSusana Draper is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and author of \u003cem\u003eAfterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-Dictatorship Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiz Mason-Deese is an editor of Viewpoint Magazine and a long-time participant and translator of women’s movements in Latin America. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Theorizing feminicide as the key epistemic violence at the heart of patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist relations of rule, this powerful text documents Black, Brown, and Indigenous trans and cis women’s ongoing resistance and insurgent dreams of bodily integrity and freedom. Weaving together memories, poetry, stories, analysis, art, and activist praxis, \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e charts a new and irresistible future for anticapitalist feminist struggle. A book that belongs on the bookshelves of all progressive, left, decolonial scholar-activists.” Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of \u003cem\u003eFeminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e tells stories of women reclaiming their histories, their dreams, their lives, and their bodies. It is a view from the ground up of the limitless greed of global corporations who want the last farm, the last seed, and the last mineral. Most importantly, it shows how violence against the Earth and violence against women are interconnected, and how feminicide and ecocide are intrinsic to the structures of global accumulation. Transforming the pain of feminicide into a fight for justice, women are showing how we can create new economies from the ground up, putting people and planet at the center to create buen vivir, the good life for all.” Vandana Shiva, author of \u003cem\u003eStaying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEarth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on concrete experiences and processes, \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e explains why feminicide is a political category. It shows why social movements are the ones that have made feminicide into a term for naming patriarchal violence in relation to the capitalist and colonial system as a machine of exploitation and cruelty over certain bodies and territories; why struggles have installed the term in the media and in legal classifications at the same time as they use it to denounce patriarchal justice and counter-insurgent strategies. Speaking of feminicide and transfeminicide in relation to global processes of accumulation, as \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e proposes, makes it possible both to grieve and to refuse its normalization, to create a systematic account of how violence explodes and extracts collective wealth, as well as to connect sexual violence to histories of conquest and genocide.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Feminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e arises from a collective encounter in Colombia in 2016 that has been vital for conceptualizing and sharing experiences from voices across Abya Yala, of Black, Indigenous, Afro-descendant and Afro-Indigenous women, and non-heteronormative bodies. Thus it is a book that is heard and written in many tongues. It is theory produced in the thickness of a poem, concepts woven into conversation, lines of argument that echo inherited histories, philosophies that carry memories. The effort of its translation and publication in English does justice to the task of introducing a vocabulary that emerges from the struggles of body-territories in their untiring strategies of re-existence.” Verónica Gago, author of \u003cem\u003eFeminist International: How to Change Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely and necessary book on one of the most urgent issues facing trans and cis women globally. Centering the voices of Black and Indigenous women, this collection presents rare and much needed insight into the ways that racial capitalism and heterosexism exacerbate the politics of violence against women transnationally. From Colombia to Guinea-Bissau, these reflections dialogically, poetically and passionately demonstrate why Black and Indigenous women matter and why we must do everything in our power to stop racialized gender violence now.” Christen A. Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eAfro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing, unflinching indictment and analysis of gender-based violence and its embeddedness in extant structures of colonialism, modern patriarchy, racism, and capital accumulation. In their own riveting words and voices, Black, Afro-descendant, trans, and Indigenous women, activists, and researchers from across the Americas and the Global South offer stories and theories of the living experiences and memories of the racist, feminicidal violence they and their communities have endured and resisted, and never forgotten, despite the imposed silence of dominant histories. Through them we see the monstrous and intimate scales of the punitive powers women face. But we also see the enormous powers women themselves wield—powers of rebellion, resistance, and re-existence—which are the radical capacities for transformation we can put our hopes in. Harrowing and heartening, moving, humbling, and inspiriting, these are powerful and empowering calls for collective resistance and joy, and renewed life-making against the pedagogies of cruelty directed against the truth of women’s rebellion. This book is more than a glimpse of what it will take to remake the world. It shows us that those who now defend life, land, culture, and community are who will lead us into a different future.\" Neferti X. M. Tadiar, author of \u003cem\u003eThings Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of the heart and mind, of spirit and memory, and of truth and resistance. By amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous and women of color living on the frontlines of colonialism and imperialism, this book offers an alarming exposition of the horrors and terrain of contemporary racialized, capitalist accumulation and dispossession—who it targets, under what historical conditions, and the staggering and multiple forms of patriarchal violence necessary for its reproduction. The narratives move through past, present, and future—drawing on ancestral wisdom of place, speaking to the everyday political interventions of feminist freedom fighters in the here and now, and ultimately shaping future feminist resistors rising up from the earth and demanding change. There is no hiding from the haunting accounts of colonial, capitalist violence courageously shared in these pages, or the questions about international solidarity that float to the surface as you read. The transformative power, analytic precision, and deep and uncompromising indictment of our current world captured in the book’s pages—and showcased in such painful and beautiful ways— is what we desperately need to think with, to teach, to understand, and to mobilize for collective liberation across the globe. Reading it is like standing on the precipice of change.” Jaskiran Dhillon, author of \u003cem\u003ePrairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization and the Politics of Intervention\u003c\/em\u003e and Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"From the spread of new forms of witch-hunting and the worldwide escalation in the number of women murdered daily, there is mounting evidence of what some feminists have called “a low-intensity war against women.” This chapter starts with the question: What are the motivations and logic behind this phenomenon? I try to answer this question by placing the specific forms of violence in a historical context and examining the impact of capitalist development, past and present, in women’s lives and gender relations. In this context, I also explore the relation between different forms of violence—familial, extra-domestic, and institutional—and the strategies for resistance that women around the world are creating to put a stop to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Since the beginning of the feminist movement, violence against women has been a key issue in feminist literature and organization, inspiring the formation of the first International Tribunal on Crimes against Women, held in Brussels in March 1976. Since then, feminist antiviolence initiatives have multiplied, as have laws passed by governments following the UN World Conferences on Women. But, far from diminishing, violence against women has increased in every part of the world, to the point where feminists now describe it as “feminicide.” Not only has the violence represented by the number of women killed and abused continued to increase, but its character has also changed. It is increasingly more public, more brutal, and it frequently takes forms that are typical of times of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What are the causes of this phenomenon and what does it tell us about transformations that are occurring in the global economy and women’s social position? Answers to these questions have varied, but it is clear that the root causes of this escalation are found in the new forms of capital accumulation, which involve broad processes of land dispossession, the destruction of communitarian relations, and an intensification in the exploitation of natural resources and labor. What still needs to be clarified, however, are the concrete ways in which this violence is a consequence and\/or instrument of the advance of capitalist relations. In this chapter, I address the question both by providing a historical perspective, and by discussing the relation between domestic and public violence and policies at the institutional level that have been adopted to discipline women. My goal is to demonstrate that while this new wave of violence adopts different forms, its common denominator is the devaluation of women’s lives and labor promoted by globalization. In other words, the new violence against women is rooted in structural trends that are constitutive of capitalist development and state power in all times. This means that the construction of alternatives to capitalism must be an essential part of the struggle against this violence against women, in order to eradicate its causes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Silvia Federici\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Susana Draper\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Liz Mason-Deese\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173441\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 240 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175374893149,"sku":"9781942173441","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/feminicide_and_global_accumulation_9781942173441_fc.jpg?v=1654988967"},{"product_id":"19-and-20-notes-for-a-new-insurrection-updated-20th-anniversary-edition","title":"19 and 20: Notes for a New Insurrection (Updated 20th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom a rebellion against neoliberalism’s miserable failures, notes for a new insurrection and a new society. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e19 and 20\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of one of the most popular uprising against neoliberalism: on December 19th and 20th, 2001, amidst a financial crisis that tanked the economy, ordinary people in Argentina took to the streets shouting “¡Qué se vayan todos!” (They all must go!) Thousands of people went to their windows banging pots and pans, neighbors organized themselves into hundreds of popular assemblies, workers took over streets and factories. In those exhilarating days, government after government fell as people invented a new economy and a new way of governing themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a defining moment of the antiglobalization movement and Colectivo Situaciones was there, thinking and engaging in the struggle. Their writings during the insurrection have since been passed hand to hand and their practice of militant research modelled widely as a way of thinking together in a time of rebellion. Today, as a staggering debt crisis deepens amidst an already COVID-shaken economy, we see the embers from that time twenty years ago in the mutual aid initiatives and new forms of solidarity amidst widespread vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevisiting the forms of counterpower that emerged from the shadow of neoliberal rule, Colectivo Situaciones reminds us that our potential is collective and ungovernable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“19 \u0026amp; 20 is a book-event that has become a key for social movements around the world. In it, Colectivo Situaciones practice militant research as an act of listening (escucha) and experimentation that translates the powerful mobilizations that took the streets to end neoliberal plundering (saqueo) into an inspiring and crucial praxis of thinking. Learning from the events instead of imposing old categories on their singularities, this book is a crucial source of inspiration on militant research and situated thinking. A singular work of pedagogy from below, this new edition comes in a timely moment where the deepening of the neoliberal expropriation of life that the pandemic has made so explicit meets with the tenth anniversary of the global uprisings of 201. Today, once again, 19 \u0026amp; 20 offers a crucial map for experimenting in the situated praxis of political thought.” Susana Draper, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eFemincide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eAfterlives of Confinement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e1968 Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Assemblies may become thinking machines. And experiments of resistance may give rise to alternative experiences of sociability. Colectivo Situaciones develops out of these findings, that emerged within the 2001 resurrection in Argentina, a powerful reflexive research: a truly magnificent effort to explore the potentialities of a future beyond capitalism.” Stavros Stavrides, author of \u003cem\u003eTowards the City of Thresholds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a book born in the barricades, neighborhood assemblies, and factory occupations of Argentina’s 2001 uprising against neoliberalism. Written by movement participants, it’s an inspiring account of the rebellion and a grassroots model of how to research and theorize a movement that forged a new way of doing politics from below. The English translation of such a classic book that’s been passed around revolutionary circles for decades is a cause for celebration and hitting the streets!” Benjamin Dangl, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Twenty years ago, Argentina erupted in blockades and assemblies, occupations, demonstrations, and communal kitchens. In both its circumstances and forms, the 2001 uprising presaged the protests of 2011 and the struggles of our time. Colectivo Situaciones’ \u003cem\u003e19 \u0026amp; 20\u003c\/em\u003e provided both the sharpest analysis of that moment and a model of theoretical practice: nimble, dialogical, embedded in the movements with whom it thought, made in common. To rediscover it today is to do more than reconnect with the recent past; it is inevitably also to ask how it illuminates what we have lived since, and how we can continue to extend its lessons into the future.” Rodrigo Nunes, author of \u003cem\u003eNeither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A long decade before Occupy Wall Street, Argentineans poured into the streets to reject austerity and short the circuits of neoliberal capitalism, proving that state violence was no match for popular refusal. But this is not a book about Argentina or even Latin America as a whole, a brutal laboratory where neoliberalism was imposed in blood and fire. It's about a way of thinking that is also a doing, about what the concrete experience of rebellion teaches us about how the world moves, and how to turn that movement into thought. Find yourself in this book.” Geo Maher, author of \u003cem\u003eBuilding the Commune\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA World Without Police\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The 2001 uprising in Argentina is a major flashpoint in a wave of popular struggles that repudiated the neoliberal capitalist order and authored new forms of non-capitalist social construction. Colectivo Situaciones gives us important analyses of the uprising and its legacies, the roots of Argentina’s financial and political crisis, and changes in contemporary forms of anticapitalist mobilization and resistance. Their close attention to grassroots practices of resistance, political organizing, and world-making is emblematic of their method of militant research, which itself has been an inspiration to so many. Those interested in contemporary social movements, political theory, and the history of Argentina and the region will find much to appreciate in this wonderful new edition. Jennifer S. Ponce de León, author of \u003cem\u003eAnother Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“If the insurrection in Argentina that began in December 2001 was our Paris Commune, then Colectivo Situaciones fits well in the position of Karl Marx. As Friedrich Engels was fond of saying, one of Marx’s many talents was to analyze the historical importance of political events as they took place. This book by Colectivo Situaciones, written in the heat of action, certainly demonstrates that same talent in full, delving into the complexity of concrete events while simultaneously stepping back to recognize how our political reality has changed.” Michael Hardt, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColectivo Situaciones\u003c\/strong\u003e is a collective of militant researchers based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have participated in numerous grassroots coresearch projects with unemployed workers, peasant movements, neighborhood assemblies, and alternative education experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the events of December 19th and 20th of 2001 in Argentina, but not exclusively. Such events, we believe, revealed in concentrated form the emergence of a new social protagonism. But the 19th and 20th cannot be taken as an excuse – nor, in any way, as a demonstration – to show something that already existed. Not even to mark a degree zero of Argentina. Our motives are otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe events of December tore down the Nunca Más democratic truce. Since then, situations that were believed to have been conjured away appeared on the scene: levels of resistance willing to confront state power became visible and the threat of a military coup returned. In this sense, we believe they mark the end of the genocidal dictatorship that began in 1976. Or, in other words: the insurrection of December man- aged to escape the threatening double bind of all those years: dictatorship or democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe traditional role of the state was severely overturned during these appearances: the declaration of a state of siege the night of December 19th and the ongoing rumors of a coup conspiracy sought to reestablish terror, but they were not enough, at any moment, to stop popular unrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe events of December force us to think of novelty and not just to inscribe the “facts” in an already existent totality of meaning. That is why our attempt is to think what the 19th and 20th opens in its singularity. That is, the practices of fidelity to such processes as were unfolding in the context of 2001 and of which this book seeks to be part. The events unleashed by the insurrection remain open. This indeterminacy, how- ever, is not an obstacle to the writing of this book. On the contrary, we intend to develop a style of thought constituted not by the preexistence of its object but by its interiority with respect to the phenomenon we are thinking about. In this way, thought abandons all positions of power over the experience in which it participates. The classical separation between subject and object is left aside in order to turn thought into another dimension of experience. Thinking becomes a risky activity: it consists not in producing representations of objects, but rather in assuming the theoretical dimension that is present in each situation. Nor is it about producing a final conjecture about the process still in motion, but about intervening in the current discussions, under the heat of the events. For that same reason, this is a book of urgencies. Neither predictions nor prophecies will be found in these pages. The goal of this work is to think the opening inaugurated in December from within itself: the possibilities of mobility and visibility of the bodies and knowledges that such events activated. But also to think how the experiences of struggle previous to the 19th and 20th were transformed. Summarizing, to think in the effects and not about them. To think without objectifying. To think without capture and appropriations. To think with the conviction that the moments we lived will inspire struggles and experiences to come. And that, in consequence, the task of thought is not neutral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe hypothesis from and upon which we work here is constituted as a site of polemics, ruptures, and continuities with respect to the struggles of the seventies and the post-dictatorship period. We affirm the emergence of a collection of practices and languages that give way to a new type of intervention in the social and political sphere. Here we find a social protagonism that operates by bringing together dimensions of existence in their entirety; this is a consequence of a more significant historical rupture with respect to the myths of determinism and progress characteristic of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Colectivo Situaciones\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173489\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175381708893,"sku":"9781942173489","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/19and20_cover_rgb1600copy.jpg?v=1654989012"},{"product_id":"how-we-stay-free-notes-on-a-black-uprising","title":"How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn anthology-in-action of the culture and politics of Black liberation, rooted in Philadelphia’s Black Radical Tradition. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of a global pandemic and a nationwide uprising sparked by the murder of George Floyd, Philadelphians took to the streets establishing mutual aid campaigns, jail support networks, bail funds, and housing encampments for their community; removed the statue of Frank Rizzo—the former mayor and face of racist policing; called for the release of all political prisoners including Mumia Abu-Jamal; and protested, marched, and agitated in all corners of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free\u003c\/em\u003e collects and presents reflections and testimonies, prose and poetry from those on the frontlines to take stock of where the movement started, where it stands, and where we go from here. A celebration of the organizing that sustained the uprising, How We Stay Free is a powerful collection that invites us all to celebrate Black life, find our place in an ongoing rebellion, and organize our communities for the creation of new, better, and freer worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher R. Rogers is Program Director for the Paul Robeson House and a contributor to Black Lives Matter at School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFajr Muhammad is a writer and editor whose work has been awarded fellowships by the Tin House Writers’ Workshop, Rhode Island Writers’ Colony, and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Robeson House \u0026amp; Museum, a project of the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, is an internationally recognized center that preserves the legacy of Paul Robeson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This powerful volume provides a maroon archive of Black resistance, historical memory, and survival work during the 2020 uprisings in Philadelphia. From the founding of the Philadelphia Black Radical Collective to the emergence of the Black Students Alliance in July 2020, the writings and spoken word in \u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free\u003c\/em\u003e remind us that, “Freedom is not a destination. It’s a process.” By documenting Black Philadelphia’s activist praxis during the United States’ largest popular mobilization in history, this edited collection unearths the precious artifacts of local struggle through voice, material culture, poetry and prose. It connects past, present, and future by interweaving the histories of the Paul Robeson House and Museum and Hakim’s Bookstore in West Philadelphia to the contemporary practices of mutual aid and survival developed by the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative to ensure that Black Trans Lives Matter. How We Stay Free is a rich tapestry of political work and freedom dreams that is essential reading for understanding our city and the larger world beyond as we reckon with the COVID-19 pandemic, the scale of state violence at home and abroad, and unprecedented ecological crisis. Underneath all we do, Mike Africa, Jr.’s reminds us that “the overall mission, the grand mission itself” must be to “protect life.” Donna Murch, author of \u003cem\u003eLiving for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAssata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism and the Movement for Black Lives\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“As a loud and proud West Philadelphian, I found this volume to be a visionary and genuinely inspiring approach to chronicling the momentous events of 2020. \u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free\u003c\/em\u003e, with its offering of poetry, history, context, and practical organizing strategies is a book that so many of us didn't even know that we needed. I am persuaded that the spirit of onetime West Philadelphia resident Paul Robeson moves through pages, which attest to Black identity as an infinite plurality and Black love as Black collective action.” Asali Solomon, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Days of Afrekete\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free\u003c\/em\u003e is a foundational text and map that builds on the legacy of the Black Radical Tradition as localized in Black Philadelphia. Through this eloquent mix of poetry, prose, interviews, and archives of Philly’s Black Uprising, this text places our fight for justice that year within a much longer history and future of radical revolt. This is must read for community residents, activists, organizers to model ways that Philly has paired arts-based resistance work with organized protests and mobilization to build sustainable radical coalitions for freedom.\" Dr. Christina Jackson, Scholar-Activist, Community Facilitator, Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free\u003c\/em\u003e is a living archive built by a community of freedom fighters. In its pages, readers walk the streets of West Philadelphia, stepping into Hakim’s Bookstore, marching up Broad St. with the Philly Black Student Alliance, sharing food at the Bunny Hop in Malcolm X Park, or sitting in the parlor at 4951 Walnut where Paul Robeson’s voice still thunders in the walls. This is poetic record of resistance from the 2020 uprisings. From the ashes of the MOVE bombing to the surviving nail where Frank Rizzo’s statue once stood, these are blueprints for a future being made in the present. A beautiful compendium of struggle.” Christina Heatherton, coeditor of \u003cem\u003ePolicing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Christopher Rogers and Fajr Muhammad have curated an urgent and timely collection. How We Stay Free documents how the 2020 Black uprising in Philadelphia sparked the political imagination. Produced in collaboration with the Paul Robeson House and Museum, it illuminates how Paul and Eslanda Robeson remain inspiring symbols of the radical social change so urgently needed today.” Jordan T. Camp, author of \u003cem\u003eIncarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFreedom is not a destination. It’s a process. It’s a commitment. It’s praxis. It’s an insistence on worldmaking possibilities in every moment of crisis. Freedom requires that we must make witness of our unique differences in the effort to cultivate sustained relations toward worlds driven by care, love, and transformation. Freedom requires that we reject the seductive entrapments of the colonizer, because our radical imagination insists on creating, returning to, otherwise. We make freedom with what we have, because like L.T.D.’s classic Love Ballad goes, freedom knows what we have is so much more than they can see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin reminded us that the path to true freedom involves staying true to our ancestral inheritance. Here we stand. “Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master.” Freedom need not seek permission, nor recognition, nor validation. Freedom thrives in the “Be” class, the folkloric status of High John de Conquer elaborated by Zora Neale Hurston, as to say it shall “be here when the ruthless man comes, and be here when he is gone.” Assuredly, the occasion to grasp freedom is ever present. Toni Cade Bambara made the challenge clear for us. “What are you going to do to be free?” echoes across the maelstrom of Black life, whether in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Louisville, Bogota, Cape Town, Port-au- Prince, and elsewhere throughout the Pan-African world. It’s in our hands, feet, hearts, and souls. We win from within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the premise of \u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising\u003c\/em\u003e. In immediate response to police terror and the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Walter Wallace Jr., we witnessed one of the largest networked global mobilizations of our generation, reinvigorating long-standing organizing under the banner of abolition and Black liberation. What we witnessed throughout the US in 2020 was an insurrectionary moment, a chaotic and improvised movement that exemplifies the power that Black communities can wield by practicing shared freedom, sovereignty, and ungovernability. To say that any of the strategies used over the summer—mass protest, community mobilization, coalition building, mutual aid—are unprecedented is to discredit the collective pool of Black genius that underlies the Black Radical Tradition. We’ve been here before. We cull these notes from organizers, storytellers, artists, and archivists to recognize that the 2020 Black Uprising in Philadelphia is part of the long, multifaceted, and continuously unfolding history of intelligence gathered from struggle meant to once and for all do away with the chains of an order that has never served us. Underneath the nationalist myths of founding liberty, Philadelphia has always been a groundswell of rebellious underground activity; particularly of Black conspiring and coalition-building towards true freedom. While the stories archived in these pages speak to the work in one city, they are meant to be understood as a contribution to this global tradition, for the generations ahead of us to study, extend, and renew the worthy work in their own communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Robeson too, knew far too well that we, African people, stood to be more than victims, but victors. He knew that within our principled unity lies an incredible reservoir of power. “Don’t say it’s impossible to change this.We must know our strength.We are the decisive force.”These are the words of the tallest tree in our forest, the Great Forerunner.8 We must not forget that Eslanda Robeson, his lifelong wife, first manager, and political trailblazer in her own right, was there with Paul, a key interlocutor in developing his singular legacy. Eslanda believed “[i]n fighting a just cause, in resisting oppression, there is dignity.” We must know that none of our leaders stand on an island but are enriched by a community of freedom fighters whose full histories may never be recovered yet through the deeds of a named few. As you read what’s documented in \u003cem\u003eHow We Stay Free,\u003c\/em\u003e know that it can never be the full story nor does it pretend to capture the genuine contributions of all who were there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Robesons’ legacy inspired Frances P. “Mama Fran” Aulston, the infinitely wise and unrelenting Black community librarian and arts administrator, to fundraise and to turn the last home Paul Robeson knew, 4951 Walnut Street, into the Paul Robeson House \u0026amp; Museum. As Mama Fran said, “We never had no money, but we never let that stop us.” Making a way out of no way and setting forward the futures our ancestors envisioned has been the energy keeping the Robeson House \u0026amp; Museum alive all these years. It is pulsing with the rhythms of West Philadelphia and generations of Philadelphia’s Black cultural workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe view the arts as a tool of social change and in documenting our resistance in these essays, poetry, and conversations we create mighty tools to carve new ways of being. Angela Davis, recalling the artistic contributions of Paul Robeson, once acknowledged: “Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives.” We hold on to this sacred responsibility of the arts, to anchor our aspirations in that which must awaken those affected by it to creatively transform their worlds. It’s the path that Uncle Paul and Mama Fran laid for us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat would be the Robesons’ role in such a moment as 2020? How would they address the revolutionary possibilities floating in the wind at the same time when so many within our communities were struggling through loss and grief? The stories in this collection take many forms, reflecting the different actions and organizing practices that fueled the multilayered movement activity over the course of the year. It was important for us to not overly focus on spectacle, but strategy; nor on individuals alone, but rather their work with formal organizations in shaping collective consciousness. As Kiese Laymon says, “Collective freedom is impossible without interpersonal repair,” so we deeply consider what healing looks like for us. The communal position of these pieces allows them to speak to one another in ways that are unconcerned with outward conversation or justification. These stories invite celebration, recommitment, and dedication to everything that sustains us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Christopher R. Rogers\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Fajr Muhammad\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173502\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175393800285,"sku":"9781942173502","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/how_we_stay_free_9781942173502.png?v=1654989084"},{"product_id":"for-antifascist-futures-against-the-violence-of-imperial-crisis","title":"For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplores the significance of fascism for understanding authoritarianism today and centers anti-imperialist movements of Black, Indigenous, and colonized peoples. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe must, as \u003cem\u003eFor Antifascist Futures\u003c\/em\u003e urges, take antifascism as a major imperative of movements for social change. But we must not limit our analysis or historical understanding of the rise of the right-wing authoritarianism in our times by rooting it in mid-twentieth century Europe. Instead we turn to a collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor Antifascist Futures\u003c\/em\u003e takes seriously what is new in this moment of politics, exploring what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the twenty-first century authoritarian convergence by centering the material and speculative labor of antifascist and antiracist social movement coalitions. By focusing on the long history of Black and Brown antifascist resistance that has been overlooked in both recent conversations about racial justice as well as antifascist resistance, the essays, interviews, and documents included here make clear how racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy linking a deep engagement, both scholarly and practical, of racial justice movements with an antifascist frame, and a global analysis of capitalism the contributors have assembled a powerful toolbox for our struggles. The editors, widely recognized ethnic and American studies scholars, offer a groundbreaking collection with contributions from Johanna Fernandez, Manu Karuka, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Zoé Samudzi, and Macarena Gomez-Barris among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This extraordinary volume ranges over a planetary geography and deeply engages historical formations and trajectories of fascism and antifascism. The authors, writing in a variety of genres and from many fields of study, illuminate the makings of racialized violence, the role of untruths, post-truths, and ideologies, the afterlives and ongoing effects of colonial force, and the role of capital accumulation in the making of modern varieties of fascism. Every page of For Antifascist Futures forces us to face and reckon with the lacerating effects of fascist power on the body politic” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sinews-of-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula\" title=\"Laleh Khalili\"\u003eLaleh Khalili\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/sinews-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-arabian-peninsula\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTime in the Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Globalizing and reframing fascisms on a world scale, this urgent and powerful volume analyzes fascism as the convergence of authoritarian state and extralegal racial nationalist violence responding to the historical and material crises of capitalism and imperialism. The collection constellates a stunning range of antifascist practices, from Black radical internationalism, anticolonial movements, and insurgencies in the Philippines, Palestine, and South Asia, and across Latin America and Africa, on the one hand, to a long history of antifascisms and racial justice movements in the U.S. and Indigenous demands for return of stolen land, on the other.” Lisa Lowe, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Intimacies of Four Continents \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFor Antifascist Futures\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing and necessary collection for our times. The precise and unsparing indictment of fascism—and its enduring entanglements in imperialist and capitalist expansion—is the urgent world-making project that we all need. By deftly engaging the analytic of fascism across time and geography, this constellation of intellectually \u0026amp; politically fierce essays narrates a simultaneously sobering and inspiring political vision of internationalist antifascism against authoritarianism. This book is a tour de force.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBorder and Rule\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/undoing-border-imperialism\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlyosha Goldstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePoverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century\u003c\/em\u003e, editor of \u003cem\u003eFormations of United States Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and coeditor (with Jodi A. Byrd, Jodi Melamed, and Chandan Reddy) of “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism,” a special issue of \u003cem\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), (with Juliana Hu Pegues and Manu Vimalassery [Karuka]) of “On Colonial Unknowing,” a special issue of \u003cem\u003eTheory \u0026amp; Event\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and (with Alex Lubin) of “Settler Colonialism,” a special issue of \u003cem\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimón Ventura Trujillo\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor in the English Department at New York University and the author of \u003cem\u003eLand Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity\u003c\/em\u003e (2020)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNadia Abu El-Haj \u003c\/strong\u003eis Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, and Chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows\/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eFacts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology\u003c\/em\u003e. Her third book (Verso 2022) is a study of the figure of the traumatized soldier in the American social imaginary and its central role in reproducing contemporary American militarism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Boyd is an antifascist and antiracist cultural organizer, educator, and public humanities scholar. In 2006, Kate and Cristien Storm cofounded If You Don't They Will, a Seattle-based collaboration that provides concrete and creative tools for countering white nationalism through a cultural lens. This includes creating spaces to generate visions, desires, incantations, actions, memes, and dreams for the kinds of worlds we want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharisse Burden-Stelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, assistant professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology. She is the coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of \u003cem\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History\u003c\/em\u003e, and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled \u003cem\u003eBlack Scare\/Red Scare: Antiblackness, Anticommunism, and the Rise of Capitalism in the United States\u003c\/em\u003e, which examines the rise of the United States to global hegemony between World War I and the early Cold War at the intersection of racial capitalism, Wall Street imperialism, anticommunism, and antiblackness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurden-Stelly \u003c\/strong\u003eis also the coeditor, with Jodi Dean, of the forthcoming volume \u003cem\u003eOrganize, Fight, Win: Three Decades of Black Communist Women’s Political Writings\u003c\/em\u003e (Verso, 2022) and the coeditor, with Aaron Kamugisha, of the forthcoming collection of Percy C. Hintzen’s writings titled \u003cem\u003eReproducing Domination: On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Mississippi, 2022). She guest edited the “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Intersectionality\u003c\/em\u003e. Her published work appears in journals including \u003cem\u003eSmall Axe, Monthly Review, Souls\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDu Bois Review, Socialism \u0026amp; Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies,\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eCLR James Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFilipa César \u003c\/strong\u003eis an artist and filmmaker interested in the fictional aspects of the documentary, the porous borders between cinema and its reception, and the politics and poetics inherent to imaging technologies. Since 2011, she has been researching the origins of the cinema of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea Bissau as a collective laboratory of decolonizing epistemologies. The resulting body of work comprises, films, archival practices, seminars, screenings, publications and ongoing collaborations with artists, theorists and activists in particular with Diana McCarty, Sónia Vaz Borges and Sana na N’Hada, with whom she initiated the Mediateca Onshore project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubin Dennis\u003c\/strong\u003e is a researcher with the New Delhi office of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and a former journalist with the news portal NewsClick. He was a research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and was active with the student movement before he joined NewsClick, where he wrote analytical articles on economy and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Denvir\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eAll-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It \u003c\/em\u003e(Verso, 2020), a Visiting Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute, a writer in residence at The Appeal, and the host of The Dig podcast on Jacobin Radio. He is a former staff writer at \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e and the Philadelphia \u003cem\u003eCity Paper\u003c\/em\u003e, and former contributing writer at the \u003cem\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/em\u003e’s CityLab. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Vox, Jacobin, The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, Al Jazeera America, VICE,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohanna Fernández\u003c\/strong\u003e is associate professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY) and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Young Lords: A Radical History,\u003c\/em\u003e recipient of the New York Society Library’s New York City Book award and three Organization of American Historians (OAH) awards: the prestigious Frederick Jackson Turner award for best first book in history, the Liberty Legacy Foundation award for best book on civil rights and the Merle Curti award for best Social History. Dr. Fernández’s 2014 Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit against the NYPD, led to the recovery of the “lost” Handschu files, the largest repository of police surveillance records in the country, namely over one million surveillance files of New Yorkers compiled by the NYPD between 1954-1972, including those of Malcolm X. She is editor of \u003cem\u003eWriting on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal\u003c\/em\u003e and writer and producer of the film,\u003cem\u003e Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.\u003c\/em\u003e Her awards include the Fulbright Scholars grant to the Middle East and North Africa, which took her to Jordan; and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center. She directed and cocurated,\u003cem\u003e ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York\u003c\/em\u003e an exhibition in three NYC museums. She’s the host of A New Day, WBAI’s morning show, from 7-8am, M-F, at 99.5 FM in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlyosha Goldstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePoverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century\u003c\/em\u003e, the editor of \u003cem\u003eFormations of United States Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e, and has coedited special issues of \u003cem\u003eSocial Text, Theory \u0026amp; Event\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e South Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e. Goldstein is completing a book manuscript on colonialism, racial capitalism, and histories of Native and Black dispossession in what is presently called the United States. Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and author who works at the intersections of authoritarianism, the visual arts, extractivism, and the environmental and decolonial humanities. Her books include \u003cem\u003eWhere Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, Beyond the Pink Tide: Artistic and Political Undercurrents,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives.\u003c\/em\u003e Her in-progress book is \u003cem\u003eAt the Sea’s Edge: Liquidity Beyond Colonial Extinction\u003c\/em\u003e. She is Founding Director of the Global South Center (globalsouthcenter.org) and Chairperson of Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She has published in \u003cem\u003eSocial Text, GLQ, \u003c\/em\u003eand numerous other journals and art catalogs, and is coeditor with Diana Taylor of Duke University Press Series, Dissident Acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElspeth Iralu (Angami Naga)\u003c\/strong\u003e is a PhD candidate in American studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research and teaching interests include Indigenous geographies and methodologies, visual culture, critical surveillance studies, and planning for decolonial futures. Iralu’s current work examines the spatial surveillance of Indigenous peoples, nations, and territories in the twenty-first century to interrogate how spatial methods of counterinsurgent warfare operate as technologies of territoriality against Indigenous nations. Her writing has appeared in\u003cem\u003e American Quarterly, The New Americanist, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpecies in Peril.\u003c\/em\u003e She has worked on community projects for environment, health, and sovereignty with Indigenous nations in India and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManu Karuka\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, and affiliated faculty with Women’s, Gender \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, where he has taught since 2014. His work centers a critique of imperialism, with a particular focus on antiracism and Indigenous decolonization. He teaches courses on the political economy of racism, U.S. imperialism and radical internationalism, Indigenous critiques of political economy, and liberation. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eEmpire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad \u003c\/em\u003e(University of California Press, 2019). With Juliana Hu Pegues and Alyosha Goldstein, he coedited a special issue of\u003cem\u003e Theory \u0026amp; Event,\u003c\/em\u003e “On Colonial Unknowing,” (2016) and with Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, and Sujani Reddy, he coedited \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power\u003c\/em\u003e (NYU Press, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDolly Kikon\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology and Development Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, a Senior Research Associate (SRA) at the Australia India Institute, and the host of the Melbourne Researchers in Focus Conversation series. She also serves on the Council of Advisors for The India Forum. Her research focuses on resource extraction, militarization, development, human rights, migration, gender, and political economy. Kikon’s books include \u003cem\u003eLiving with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Washington, 2019), \u003cem\u003eCeasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism and Urbanism in Dimapur\u003c\/em\u003e (with Duncan McDuie-Ra, Oxford University Press, 2021),\u003cem\u003e Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India\u003c\/em\u003e (with Bengt Karlsson, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, India, 2019), and \u003cem\u003eLife and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur\u003c\/em\u003e (Nagaland) (Northeast Social Research Centre Publication, Guwahati, 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLéopold Lambert \u003c\/strong\u003eis a trained architect living in Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eThe Funambulist\u003c\/em\u003e, a bimestrial print and online magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies. He is also the author of four books: \u003cem\u003eWeaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence\u003c\/em\u003e (dpr-barcelona, 2012),\u003cem\u003e Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street \u003c\/em\u003e(punctum, 2015),\u003cem\u003e La politique du bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003ePolitics of Bulldozer: The Palestinian Ruin as an Israeli Project\u003c\/em\u003e, B2, 2016), and \u003cem\u003eÉtats d’urgence: Une histoire spatiale du continuum colonial français\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eStates of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum\u003c\/em\u003e, Premiers Matins de Novembre, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoe Lowndes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and a scholar of race, populism, and right-wing politics. He coauthored \u003cem\u003eProducers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity\u003c\/em\u003e with Daniel Martinez HoSang (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale University Press, 2008), and coedited \u003cem\u003eRace and American Political Development\u003c\/em\u003e with Julie Novkov and Dorian Warren (Routledge Press, 2008). He has published extensively on populism, presidential politics, political culture, and social movements, and writes frequently for public venues including \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post, The New Republic, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eDissent\u003c\/em\u003e. His current project seeks to explain the growing authoritarian trend in U.S. politics in the United States and its implications for democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllan E. S. Lumba\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech. His research explores the historical entanglements between racial capitalism and U.S. colonialisms in the Philippines and more broadly the Pacific from the late nineteenth century to the present. His first book, \u003cem\u003eMonetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines\u003c\/em\u003e, will be out in April 2022 from Duke University Press. Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eTherapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights\u003c\/em\u003e, along with several enduring poems and articles: “There is a River in Me: Theory From Life,” “Intense Dreaming: Theories, Narratives and Our Search for Home,” and “Felt Theory: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Affect and History.” Million centers her work on the effect\/affect of racial capitalism\/settler colonialism on Indigenous family and community health in North America informed by two generations of Indigenous Feminist scholarship and activism. Million seeks to illuminate the ways in which Indigenous life reorganizes and resurges, making intentional life and kin in the face of colonial violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicole Nguyen\u003c\/strong\u003e is associate professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is author of \u003cem\u003eA Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and \u003cem\u003eSuspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeisha-Khan Y. Perry\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is focused on race, gender and politics in the Americas, urban geography and questions of citizenship, intellectual history and disciplinary formation, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy and political engagement. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eBlack Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil,\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2014 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize. She is currently at work on her second book, which is focused on the ways in which state violence limits activist research and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVaughn Rasberry\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, where he teaches and researches literature of the African Diaspora. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eRace and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (Harvard UP, 2016), recipient of the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZoé Samudzi\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer whose work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Inquiry, Verso, The New Republic, Daily Beast, Art in America, Hyperallergic\u003c\/em\u003e, and other outlets. She is a contributing writer at\u003cem\u003e Jewish Currents\u003c\/em\u003e. Along with William C. Anderson, she is the coauthor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/black-resistance-finding-conditions-liberation\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (AK Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNikhil Pal Singh\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University, and Founding Faculty Director of the NYU Prison Education Program. A historian of race, empire, and culture in the twentieth-century United States, Singh is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003eRace and America’s Long War\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press, 2017). He is also the author of the award-winning book, \u003cem\u003eBlack Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (Harvard University Press, 2004), and author and editor with Jack O’Dell of \u003cem\u003eClimin’ Jacob’s Ladder; The Black Freedom Movement Writing of Jack O’Dell.\u003c\/em\u003e A new book \u003cem\u003eExceptional Empire: Race, Colonialism and the Origins of US Globalism\u003c\/em\u003e is in-progress, and forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Singh’s writing and historian interviews have appeared in a number of places including \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine, TIME, the New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, and on NPRs \u003cem\u003eOpen Source\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCode Switch\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnne Spice\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/they) is a Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Ryerson University, and an Associate Fellow at the Yellowhead Institute. They have been actively supporting Indigenous land re-occupations since 2015, and their work dwells in the intersection of Indigenous geographies, histories and futures of Indigenous resistance, poetry and art. Their writing has been published in \u003cem\u003eEnvironment and Society, Jacobin, The New Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAsparagus Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCristien Storm\u003c\/strong\u003e is an antifascist and antiracist cultural organizer, writer, and politicized healer. In 2006, Cristien and Kate Boyd cofounded \u003cem\u003eIf You Don't They Will,\u003c\/em\u003e a Seattle-based collaboration that provides concrete and creative tools for countering white nationalism through a cultural lens. This includes creating spaces to generate visions, desires, incantations, actions, memes, and dreams for the kinds of worlds we want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlberto Toscano\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Faculty at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2006),\u003cem\u003e Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea\u003c\/em\u003e (Verso, 2010; 2017, 2nd ed.), \u003cem\u003eCartographies of the Absolute\u003c\/em\u003e (with Jeff Kinkle, Zero Books, 2015), \u003cem\u003eUna visión compleja. Hacía una estética de la economía\u003c\/em\u003e (Meier Ramirez, 2021), \u003cem\u003eLa abstracción real. Filosofia, estética y capital\u003c\/em\u003e (Palinodia, 2021), and the coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e (with Lorenzo Chiesa, re.press, 2009), the 3-volume \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Marxism\u003c\/em\u003e (with Sara Farris, Bev Skeggs and Svenja Bromberg, SAGE, 2021), and \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/ruth-wilson-gilmore\" title=\"Ruth Wilson Gilmore\"\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003cem\u003eAbolition Geography: Essays in Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e (with Brenna Bhandar, Verso, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimón Ventura Trujillo \u003c\/strong\u003eis an assistant professor in the English Department at New York University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eLand Uprising: Native Story Power\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eInsurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Arizona Press 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSónia Vaz Borges\u003c\/strong\u003e is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She received her Ph.D. in History of Education from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is the author of the book \u003cem\u003eMilitant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978\u003c\/em\u003e (Peter Lang, 2019). In September 2021 she joined the History Department as assistant professor in Africana Studies at Drexel University. As part of her academic work, Vaz Borges is developing a book proposal focused on her concept of the “walking archive.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYazan Zahzah\u003c\/strong\u003e is a community-based researcher and organizer from Southern California. They hold an MA in Gender Studies from San Diego State University and currently work as a lecturer for the California State University system. Yazan’s research examines the relationship between war, migration, surveillance, and social welfare programming. In particular, their work dissects the use of progressive rhetoric to further political violence, like with Countering Violent Extremism. Yazan is the Community Organizer at Vigilant Love in Los Angeles, CA. They are a longtime member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a grassroots organization dedicated to the self-determination of the Palestinian People.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eReframing and pluralizing fascism through a cartography of anticolonial and decolonial struggle that does not take Europe as the center is a challenge that asks us to reckon with the emergence of fascism as shaped by continuities and ruptures among feudalism, industrial capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, and liberalism. We are thus less concerned in this special issue with the “proper” historically delimited event of fascism in Europe between 1919 and 1945 than with the broad resonance and rhetorical salience of fascism.[i] Acknowledging that fascism as such is always shaped by the dynamics of particular places and conjunctures, most salient in this regard is an analysis that simultaneously de-exceptionalizes fascism and seeks to comprehend its specificity in an expanded global context. In her 1923 address and resolution for the Enlarged Plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee, Clara Zetkin argued that “fascist forces are organizing internationally, and the workers’ struggle against fascism must also organize on a world scale.”[ii] She contended that fascism emerged as a “sham revolutionary program” in response to “the imperialist war and the accelerated dislocation of the capitalist economy,” and as a necessary counterforce, “in contrast to the Second International, the Comintern is not an International for the elite of white proletarians of Europe and America. It is an International for the exploited of all races.”[iii] The global arena of racialized violence, plunder, and exploitation was in this sense an arena extended through imperialism and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBetween the end of the First World War and the early Cold War, numerous anticolonial writers of color emphasized the direct connection between the atrocities of imperialism and fascism. They persuasively argued that fascism was fundamentally entangled with the form and practice of colonial rule, racialized organization of dispossession and death, and insatiable imperial aspiration in order to insist that defeating fascism required ending all manner of colonialism and imperialism. George Padmore first wrote about what he called “colonial fascism” in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow Britain Rules Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (1936), further developing this analysis in publications over the next two decades.[iv] In his 1938 address to the conference on Peace and Empire, Jawaharlal Nehru observed that “the essence of the problem of peace is the problem of empire,” declaring that fascism is simply an “intensified form of the same system which is imperialism.”[v] Writing in 1949, Claudia Jones called attention to the “growth of militancy among Negro women” as having “profound meaning, both for the Negro liberation movement and for the emerging anti-fascist, anti-imperialist coalition.”[vi] In the wake of the Second World War and rising tide of anticolonial independence movements, in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDiscourse on Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e (1950\/1955) Aimé Césaire described the “decivilizing” consequences of colonialism for colonizers themselves as a root cause of Nazism and other Euro-American fascisms.[vii] During the present conjuncture, when the question of fascism appears resurgent, genealogies of anticolonial and anti-imperialist critique are indispensable for understanding and dismantling the far-reaching entanglements of rightwing authoritarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eFascism as a heuristic in this sense can be thus important for several reasons. First, an analytic of fascism situates rightwing reaction within the historical and material crises of imperialism of which fascism is in some fundamental sense symptomatic. To invoke fascism is to place various iterations of authoritarianism and state and extralegal violence directly in relation to racial and gendered capitalist crisis and the expanded reproduction of imperialism. Second, the mass appeal of authoritarian nationalism and white supremacy has been historically galvanized during moments of accelerated insecurity and potential displacement of the so-called middle class. For instance, Trump’s base was and remains primarily middle-income white people as well as particular fractions of corporate capital and is not principally a movement of working-class or impoverished white people, even if it has also successfully recruited from these sectors. Third, fascism as an embrace of punitive governance partially animated by a politics of fear, cruelty, racism, and heteropatriarchy is essentially reactionary. This reactionary appeal to the certainty of authority and order against demonized and otherized groups emerges in opposition to the promise and popularity of a radical politics of redistribution (for instance, in relation to anarchist and communist revolutionary movements during the interwar period and Cold War era) and abolition (as against the Movement for Black Lives and initiatives to defund the police today). During the current moment, it is also a revanchist alignment against the momentum of trans* and queer liberation, climate justice, migrant and asylum seeker assertions of life against border imperialism, and Indigenous peoples’ demands for the return of stolen land. This reactionary disposition is of the utmost significance, especially in that it requires a focus on that against which it is organized and defined — although horrific, raw power and rule by violence in this sense are in many ways the least stable basis of authority and control.[viii]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWithout overstating continuities or equivalencies, we contend that naming fascism often serves to index the relationship among state power, imperialism and colonization, religious\/racist nationalism, and white supremacist terrorism as the reactive conditions of counterrevolution and racial capitalism. The racial terror and genocide wrought by slavery and colonialism preceded, were co-constitutive of, and continue after Mussolini’s Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, and Japan’s Shōwa nationalism. There are multiple valences for an expanded frame of fascisms. Among the most frequently referenced examples of links between European fascism and colonial policy are Germany’s 1904-1908 genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples in South West Africa (now Namibia) and U.S. policy toward Indigenous peoples and Jim Crow laws as models emulated by the Third Reich.[ix] In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, African American petitions to the United Nations, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP’s 1947 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn Appeal to the World: A Statement of Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress\u003c\/em\u003e — which condemns the U.S. as part of “the imperialist block which is controlling the colonies of the world” — and the 1951 Civil Rights Congress’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Charge Genocide: The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People\u003c\/em\u003e were exemplary of a burgeoning Black antifascism.[x] In turn, similar demands for redress and liberation framed in relation to fascism extended through the 1955 Bandung Conference, the 1966 Tricontinental Conference, and the growing momentum for worldwide decolonization.[xi]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eDuring the 1960s and 1970s, the Black Panther Party likewise called out as fascist the constitutive white supremacism and imperialism of the United States — brutally enacted by the everyday actions of the police, counterinsurgency operations, and the military — and sought to build a broad coalition of activists with such initiatives the United Front Against Fascism conference in 1969.[xii] Activist groups such as the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Anti-Racist Action in the United States and the Anti-Nazi League and Anti-Fascist Action in Britain were explicitly organized against the fascism of the racist New Right and skinhead gangs of the 1970s and 1980s.[xiii] More recently, a heterogeneous group of antifascist organizations, initiatives, and actions sometimes collectively referred to as Antifa — or, in the case of Donald Trump’s “anti-Antifa” campaign, conjured into a single vilified and violent organization — have mobilized against rightwing and white racist terrorism. In each of these instances, the continuities, tensions, and disjunctions of what gets named fascism in particular times and places matter within and across national and international frames. We aim to think with such genealogies to further question how fascism as a heuristic can be further situated with respect to imperialism and settler colonialism as well as what such a heuristic might offer with regard to anticolonial thought and action as one especially salient arena of struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[i] Matthew N. Lyons, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInsurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire\u003c\/em\u003e (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[ii] Clara Zetkin, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win\u003c\/em\u003e, ed. Mike Taber and John Riddell (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2017), 73.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[iii] Zetkin, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFighting Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e, 34, 67, 61.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[iv] George Padmore, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow Britain Rules Africa\u003c\/em\u003e (1936; New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[v] Quoted in Michele Louro, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComrades against Imperialism: Nehru, India, and Interwar Internationalism\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 230.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[vi] Claudia Jones, “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women” (1949), in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaudia Jones: Beyond Containment\u003c\/em\u003e, ed. Carole Boyce Davies (Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2011), 74.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[vii] Aimé Césaire, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDiscourse on Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e, trans. Joan Pinkham (1950; New York: Monthly Review, 2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[viii] Kyle Burke, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018); Gerald Horne, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhite Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela\u003c\/em\u003e (New York, NY: International Publishers, 2019); Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer Sutton, eds., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGlobal White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump\u003c\/em\u003e (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[ix] Zoé Samudzi, “Reparative Futurities: Thinking From the Ovaherero and Nama Colonial Genocide,” \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Funambulist\u003c\/em\u003e 30 (July-August 2020); Jürgen Zimmerer and Joachim Zeller, eds., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904–1908 and Its Aftermath\u003c\/em\u003e (London: Merlin Press, 2008); James Q. Whitman, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017); Edward B. Westermann, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest\u003c\/em\u003e (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016); Jens-Uwe Guettel, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGerman Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776–1945\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). For a generative resituating of the Nazi Holocaust in relation to the context of decolonization see Michael Rothberg, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMultidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization\u003c\/em\u003e (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[x] Highlighting the significance of Black antifascism, Christine Hong argues that “Black radicals during World War II wielded the term \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efascism\u003c\/em\u003e to expose the illegitimacy and counterrevolutionary nature of the racial capitalist state, including waging its domestic war” against Black people. Christine Hong, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific\u003c\/em\u003e (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020), 183.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[xi] See Adom Getachew, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination \u003c\/em\u003e(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019); Luis Eslava, Michael Fakhri, and Vasuki Nesiah, eds., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017); Quỳnh N. Phạm and Robbie Shilliam, eds., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, 2016); Christopher J. Lee, ed., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaking a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives\u003c\/em\u003e (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010); Anne Garland Mahler, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity\u003c\/em\u003e (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018); John Munro, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945-1960\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017); \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/vijay-prashad\" title=\"Vijay Prashad\"\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: The New Press, 2007); and Robin D. G. Kelley, “A Poetics of Anticolonialism,” in Césaire, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDiscourse on Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e, 7-28.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e[xii] Robyn C. Spencer, “The Black Panther Party and Black Anti-Fascism in the United States,” January 26, 2017, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dukeupress.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/26\/the-black-panther-party-and-black-anti-fascism-in-the-united-states\/\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"0\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/dukeupress.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/26\/the-black-panther-party-and-black-anti-fascism-in-the-united-states\/\"\u003ehttps:\/\/dukeupress.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/26\/the-black-panther-party-and-black-anti-fascism-in-the-united-states\/\u003c\/a\u003e. See also Robyn C. Spencer, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland \u003c\/em\u003e(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016); Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party\u003c\/em\u003e (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.commonnotions.org\/for-antifascist-futures#_ednref13\" title=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-tabindex=\"0\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.commonnotions.org\/for-antifascist-futures#_ednref13\"\u003e[xiii]\u003c\/a\u003e Hilary Moore and James Tracy, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements\u003c\/em\u003e (San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2020); David Renton, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNever Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Routledge, 2018). For an excellent primary source survey of the U.S. context, see Bill V. Mullen and Christopher Vials, eds., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe U.S. Anti-Fascism Reader \u003c\/em\u003e(Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175399764061,"sku":"9781942173564","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/for_antifascist_futures_9781942173564.jpg?v=1654989123"},{"product_id":"on-microfascism-gender-war-and-death","title":"On Microfascism: Gender, war, and death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFascist and reactionary populist forces have undeniably swelled in the US in recent years. To effectively counter fascist movements, we need to understand them beyond their most visible and public expressions. To do this, Jack Bratich asserts, we must dig deeper into the psyche and body that gives rise to fascist formations. There we will find microfascism, or the cultural ways in which a fascist understanding of the world is generated from the hatreds that suffuse everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy highlighting the misogyny at fascism’s core, we are able to observe a key process in the formation of a fascist body. Recognizing the microfascism behind appeals to recover the past glory of white male subjects created by earlier foundational wars, we see how histories of settler colonialism, genocide, and domination are animating the deadly mission of fascism today. By focusing on the variety of ways the resurgent fascist tendency courts its own destruction (and demands the destruction of others), we can trace how fascism refines and expands the death and annihilation that underpins capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe implications of \u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e are far-reaching and unsettling. Still, Bratich insists, the new fascism is not as powerful as its adherents wish us to believe. To defeat it, we must develop and defend a “micro-antifascism” grounded in the ethics of mutual aid and care in the everyday. Rooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Z. Bratich\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. He is author of \u003cem\u003eConspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eFoucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListen to an interview with the author:\u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1245356917\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\u0026amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freecityradio\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Free City Radio\"\u003eFree City Radio\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freecityradio\/104-jack-z-bratich-on-the-book-on-microfascism-gender-death-and-war\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"104. Jack Z. Bratich on the book, On Microfascism, Gender, Death, and War\"\u003e104. Jack Z. Bratich on the book, On Microfascism, Gender, Death, and War\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e stands out as a uniquely important offering, in which Bratich goes further and deeper than most every text dedicated to naming and understanding the fascism(s) of today. In this rigorous and righteous book, Bratich rightly insists on the insufficiency of seeing fascism only when it arises in State regime form. Through which subjectivities, practices, hierarchies and cultural forms do fascistic constellations permeate and grow? Bratich's razor-sharp analysis provides invaluable answers, and in so doing, offers a crucial tool for antifascist praxis.\" Natasha Lennard, author of \u003cem\u003eBeing Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e is a profoundly original and compelling analysis of fascism's deep roots in Western traditions of patriarchy. By pinpointing the foundational role of the concept of autogenetic sovereignty and charting its many implications for how we live and die, Bratich equips readers with the intellectual framework necessary to wage not only an anti-fascist struggle, but an anti-microfascist struggle.” Mark Bray, author of \u003cem\u003eAntifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It was hard to miss the wake-up call: fascism is back, no doubt about it, but in the novel formations of a micro-fascist culture that is directing the contemporary production of subjectivity. Jack Bratich not only undertakes a probing analysis of the mechanisms of the misogynistic, racist death-style of the self-affirming sovereign micro-fascist subject, but he most importantly proposes a number of welcome responses for living, to paraphrase Foucault, a micro-anti-fascist life. This book puts its readers on the path to such an art of living.” Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e provides crucial insight into the gendered dynamics and libidinal binds of everyday fascisms. In a devastating analysis of the necropolitical drive and militarized infatuations of fascist subjectivity, Bratich highlights the concerted authoritarian desire for the restoration and renewal of white supremacist heteropatriarchy. \u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism \u003c\/em\u003eis a generative companion to such significant and varied studies as Ewa Majewska’s and Natasha Lennard’s writing on antifascist feminism and Klaus Theweleit’s classic analysis of the misogynistic psychopathologies of the German Freikorps.” Alyosha Goldstein, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eFor Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e unpacks the deeply disturbing gender narratives that underskirt our societies and create an insurgent cruelty that corrodes our human relationships. This is an incredible intervention in the crisis we are living through and calls for us to collectively look deeper when responding to the growth of misogynist, white supremacist movements.\" Shane Burley, author of \u003cem\u003eWhy We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jack Bratich has written a compelling and original discourse on how microfascism presents itself nowadays and how this is imbued with misogyny, the cult of death, and violence in many forms, war included. A must-read for all scholars and activists concerned with the historical, political, and social need to understand in time the real nature and the more or less weak signs of the emergent dimensions of this political phenomenon.” Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaryush “Roosh V” Valizadeh is an award-winning misogynist. It was perhaps too early (February) in a year (2014) that saw the rise of Gamergate and Milo Yiannapolis to dub him the “Web’s most infamous misogynist,” but he didn’t let his competitors take the spotlight so easily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoosh V is a self-made man. Not that he has cultivated an independent livelihood nor even lived the good neoliberal life by taking responsibility for his entrepreneurial self. Instead, and perhaps counter to the commonsensical notion of the self-made man, Roosh V’s life trajectory in the 2010s encapsulates a microfascist masculinity, or what I am calling \u003cem\u003eautogenetic sovereignty. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoosh V rose to prominence as an early pick-up artist (PUA) with a global orientation and a series of sex tourism books on how to get laid in different nations. This could be seen as microfascist performance art, since it was unlike any modern, plebian variation of dating con-artistry but, like his website, Return of Kings, heralded his self-ordained royal lineage. The newness of what he dubbed “neomasculinity” resulted from rummaging through the past (reactionary Christianity, ideological evolutionary biology, and Stoic philosophy) to find “old ways of helping men” restore a lost patriarchal order. His mission: to renew and spread a \u003cem\u003emonarchical masculinity. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike any good traditional hero Roosh V has faced some existential ordeals, which in his case could all be conveyed in one word: women. His entire PUA project is founded on the notion that female consent is a “barrier to be surpassed or sidestepped.” Roosh V needed women as an obstacle to overcome and renew the sovereignty he always innately had anyway. Feminists were especially an obstacle, as they were the “reason that the ‘masculine man’ has apparently disappeared from the world.” His response to this crisis, a blog post titled “How to Turn a Feminist Into your Sex Slave,” was to remind everyone of his sovereign power by reasserting mastery over them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite being a self-made man, Valizadeh relied on women as objects to blame and instruments to renew his status. Valizadeh’s rallying cry was that “women forced him to act in a certain manner.” Men were sovereigns but under constant threat. Feminists in particular were so perniciously clever that he even blamed them for misogynistic killings, calling Elliot Rodger “the First Feminist Mass Murderer.” Classicist Donna Zuckerberg has pointed out that, for all Valizadeh’s claimed affiliation with Stoicism, “it is difficult to imagine a less Stoic pastime than ridiculing and attacking feminist writers for their ideas and physical appearances.” The self-made man, always on the brink of losing his subjective kingdom, must remake himself. This is done again and again through the reduction of women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eValizadeh’s sovereign acts include edicts to: repeal women’s suffrage and for men to pass pro-men laws; redefine rape according to his own standards (“All Public Rape Allegations Are False”); and revive more traditional forms of the sexual traffic in women (by giving men absolute control over their female kin). Perhaps tired of providing so much nuance in his proclamations, he issued a blog-decree in language even non-sovereigns could understand: “Women Must Have Their Behavior and Decisions Controlled by Men.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSovereigns have often found themselves under attack, needing safe spaces like forts and castles. In 2016, Valizadeh faced his own grand battle, as his valiant attempt to hold court off the Internet was ruined by the threats of marauding hordes of women. Valizadeh had issued a call for nationwide in-real-life meetups for the many kings and kinglets in training. After hearing that women were going to show up with the intent of disrupting these men’s assemblies and squad roundtables, he canceled the event, declaring that he had been victimized by feminist harassment. His claim of victimhood only fueled his royal renewal project since it’s embedded in “the dynamic of masculine injury and capacity—the injury is that masculinity has been lost, and the role of popular misogyny is to find and restore it.”The king never fully arrives—his “return” is a renewal of capacities at the expense of women’s capacities, via the further injuries visited upon them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, at least one woman provides something other than epic ordeals for Roosh V: his mother. The self-made Roosh-man makes himself thanks to the supportive infrastructure of his mom. His version of MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) involves going his own way down the stairs to his mother’s basement. His man cave—in good necrophilic fashion—is a simulated womb, now filled with things hostile to the bearer of its predecessor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe self-made man is obviously impossible. Moreover, it is a \u003cem\u003eredundant\u003c\/em\u003e phrase. Valizadeh embodies—in a distorted simulated way—what I’m calling autogenetic sovereignty. This might seem like a more convoluted way of saying self-made man and to some degree that is correct. But the “self-made man” phrase has a contemporary sociological connotation that limits its explanatory power. “Self-making” goes much deeper into the history of social power than the modern entrepreneur or success story can convey. And it has to do with the long history of microfascism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAutogenetic sovereignty harkens back to an idea that a subject can create itself \u003cem\u003eex nihilo\u003c\/em\u003e, disconnected from material connections and contexts. This very separation, as well see, is part of a long-standing patriarchal form of masculinity that distinguishes itself from women, turns to abstraction, and grounds itself in its own fabulations \u003cem\u003eall at once\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMasculinity as such, traced through notions of sovereignty, is defined by autogenesis, a sovereign act of power to define and create oneself. The self-made sovereign is the primary sovereign act. The phrase “self-made man” is thus redundant, as to be a man is already to have the claimed power to make itself. This is key to our understanding of microfascism as autogenetic sovereignty only exists as a process of renewal (rebirth) and elimination (of women).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoosh might be an exemplar but it’s the regularity and norm of masculine subjectivity that is under investigation here. Why are self-made men so adamant about their separation? Why do they incessantly have to assert sovereignty rather than just be sovereigns? Why does the repeated recreation of sovereignty depend so much on managing others, and more specifically, on depleting the capacities of others?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jack Z. Bratich\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 240 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175405203549,"sku":"9781942173496","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/microfascism_9781942173496_fc.jpg?v=1654989157"},{"product_id":"everything-for-everyone-an-oral-history-of-the-new-york-commune-2052-2072","title":"Everything For Everyone: An Oral History Of The New York Commune, 2052–2072","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eM. E. O'Brien writes on gender freedom and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines: Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services. She completed a PhD at New York University, where she wrote on how capitalism shaped New York City LGBTQ social movements. She is currently in training to be a psychoanalyst, and works as a therapist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist, and artist based in Chicago, IL. Her research as faculty at the University of Chicago focuses on gender differences in the community trajectories of Muslim Americans. Abdelhadi has also spent many years organizing. She has been involved in the movement for Palestinian liberation, Black Lives Matter, counter-surveillance and abolitionism, marxist feminist mobilization as well as workplace struggles. She is currently co-coordinating the Muslim Alliance for Gender and Sexual Diversity, a national organization that provides support and builds community by and for Queer Muslims. Abdelhadi maintains an active creative practice that includes performance art and essay and poetry writing. Her writing has appeared in Jacobin, Muftah, and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[Everything for Everyone] challenges us to not just write fiction about revolution but to make books that practice the kinds of collaboration necessary to make revolution…This book is an uncompromising, anticolonial, profoundly queer and trans, buoying, addictive, and wholly original creation…Everything for Everyone has no patience with docile truisms about how we are supposed to write. Instead, it’s a shot across the bow for contemporary fiction, raising the bar on how to crystallize utopian longings in literary form.“—BOMB Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“But if you come to Everything for Everyone for the politics, stay for the writing. Barring Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire, I can’t think of another author who uses an academic form to achieve a literary result so successfully. Each of the interviewees and interviewers has an entirely unique and authentic voice. The book is utterly plausible as the archival project it claims to be, while also telling gripping stories and slipping in details to delight sci-fi fans (a space elevator in Quito! Sentient algae-based AI! Augmented reality implants for dance parties!).“—TruthOut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everything for Everyone is the book we all need right now. It lets us imagine what can feel unimaginable in this moment—a total reorganization of social relations toward our mutual survival and the dismantling of the ruling death cult. This is a book we will all be obsessing over, arguing with, and talking about in the coming years as we try to conceive how collective action can get us through these harrowing times. I am grateful to Abdelhadi and O'Brien for making something we need so bad so compelling and readable.” —Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charts dizzying, delightful new futures for science fiction, urban planning, and engaged social practice. I spent 15 years as a community organizer and never dreamed of seeing something that so bravely, brilliantly combines liberational nonfiction and radical documentary with the exuberance of the best speculative storytelling.“ —Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City and The Art of Starving\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien’s tall tales of the future draw on real experiences of the past and present. The book’s multiple narratives, equal parts hope and pain, merge into a prayer for collective survival and for the eventual flourishing of our powers of love and invention. Voices from as-yet-unlived lives instill faith that our becoming is not yet done. Abdelhadi and O’Brien have created a vivid image of the possibility that we will one day make a home of the world.” —Hannah Black \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The special magic of Everything for Everyone is that it combines the genres of the oral history interview with speculative utopian fiction. Oral histories can show how in their everyday lives ordinary people can make the world. Utopian fiction can show the worlds we might want to be making. Every cook, or sex worker, can govern. And this is the life they might build from the ruins of this civilization, such as it is. Such a pleasure to feel one could be making the world over with them.” —McKenzie Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien are changing the game of what the novel is and what the novel can be. Much as James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Imani Perry did with the epistolary form in non-fiction, Everything for Everyone uses speculative oral history to expand and explode the limits of what fiction can do. Their imagined oral histories from many parties help us understand the present from many possible points of view in the future looking back, like Rashômon meets House of Leaves. In Everything for Everyone, binaries (of male-versus-female, fiction-versus-non-fiction, past-versus-future) are irrelevant compared to something much more interesting and important that Abdelhadi and O’Brien seek to illustrate: truth, and the way we might find liberation in it.” —Steven W. Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I had no idea I was a post-revolution speculative fiction fangirl till I started reading Everything for Everyone, which kicks off with a food riot at the Hunts Point Market led by a sex worker. I’m really bummed out by the fact that I’ll be 82—hopefully!—when their fictional revolution kicks off and dead by the time the dust settles. Exciting to read something hopeful, intersectional and an antidote to our dystopian doldrums.” —Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this genre-bending work of utopian fiction, O'Brien and Abdelhadi imagine a world that might emerge from the ashes of our own. Part speculative social science, part abolitionist manifesto, it explores the social forms and political possibilities of life after capitalism—the novel ways of organizing life, doing gender, and coping with the psychic costs of transformation that may follow the inevitable crises of capital and climate that lie in our future. Like the best utopian fiction, Everything for Everyone is also a startling work of political theory: it gives us the opportunity, as all utopias do, to learn about our own desires and hopes for a way out of our current conjuncture.”—Katrina Forrester, author of In the Shadow of Justice \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Leftists are often accused of being against everything, but not having a vision of what we're fighting for. Everything for Everyone is a corrective, a sweeping vision of the type of world and society we imagine can and will provide for us all, abundantly. Not all beautiful novels are invested in social restructuring, and not all social restructuring is envisaged in novels, but here we have exactly their meeting point: a beautiful novel bristling with the necessary changes we must make to survive on this planet. The future has sex in it, and community; it has food and labor and joy. It has trauma and memories of the harm, the nightmare, of capitalist precarity. The future is sure to exist; will it have us in it? Everything for Everyone imagines that it will, and, given this remarkable vision, this perpetual possibility, it's now our work to live up to it.”—Joseph Osmundson, author of Virology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everything for Everyone is a window into a possible future and a powerful antidote to our present moment’s ubiquitous moods of anti-utopianism, despair, nostalgia, and capitalist-realism. In this must-read speculative fiction, M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi have skillfully deployed their joint political, sociological, and psychoanalytic intelligence—capacities they have honed through decades of experience of organizing for trans, working class and Palestinian liberation. Together, O’Brien and Abdelhadi have imagined the messy, imperfect, richly fulfilling, and slowly healing collective life that will be post-capitalism. Convincingly, they present us with an ethnography, not of an ideal society, but of a revolutionary one in flux. Never do they lapse into simplistic or deterministic “solutions” to the crises of the present. The twelve denizens of the world whence Abdelhadi and O’Brien are reporting back are survivors and veterans of exhausting, traumatizing, bloody, unforgettable, complicated, and beautiful transformations. \u003cbr\u003e The interviews collected in these pages chronicle the first stages of the abolition of the family; the history of the ecological restoration projects and interplanetary technologies that might render our planet livable and leisurely; the invention of real democracy; and the armed conflagrations that were necessary along the way. So, if you have ever wondered to yourself, What will the triumph of indigenous land struggles, the overthrow of colonial occupations, and the fall of capitalism look like? Which parts of New York would be at the forefront of a communist revolution, and which would double down into religious, hyper-patriarchal fascism? Whose knowledges of facilitation, healing, conflict resolution and partying will help the population heal from its collective trauma?—then this superb novel is the book for you. Upon reaching the end, I had tears in my eyes. I took to heart the injunction of the nineteenth century utopian feminist Charles Fourier, quoted herein: ‘Your behavior should be governed from now on by the ease and proximity of this immense revolution.’”—Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40446130454621,"sku":"9781942173588","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173588_FC.jpg?v=1661186184"},{"product_id":"the-feminist-subversion-of-the-economy-contributions-for-life-against-capital","title":"The Feminist Subversion Of The Economy: Contributions For Life Against Capital","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, we must consider, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhat does a dignified life look like? \u003c\/em\u003eFeminist intellectual and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco powerfully and provocatively outlines a vision for a web of life sustained collectively with care, mutualism, and in balance with our ecological world. That vision is a call to action to subvert the foundational order of racial capitalism, colonial violence, and a heteropatriarchal economy that threatens every form of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e makes the connection between the systems that promise more devastation and destruction of life in the name of profit—and rallies women, LGBTQ+ communities, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a balanced ecology, a just economy, and a free society. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Deese, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmaia Pérez Orozco\u003c\/strong\u003e has a PhD in Economics and is activist in social and feminist movements. She is a long time educator and advocate of feminist economic concepts, theory, and practice all around Spain and Latin America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiz Mason-Deese \u003c\/strong\u003eis an editor at \u003cem\u003eViewpoint Magazine,\u003c\/em\u003e a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a member of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. She is a long-time translator of and participant in feminist movements in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e fires a thousand shots at the deadly, destructive, and exploitative economy at the heart of capitalist growth. These shots come from many perspectives interwoven in this carefully researched and passionately argued feminist text—that is, the many perspectives of ordinary people who constitute the labor necessary to reproduce this world and better worlds still; those silenced, exploited, discarded by a global capitalist system that equally disavows and destroys our rich but imperiled ecological world; and those whose organized power everywhere constitutes the forces that can overthrow the conditions of its imprisonment, and that of our planet. Amaia Pérez Orozco reminds us that we all have contributions to make for a shared life of dignity and autonomy in balance with our other-than-human world; contributions that demand we organize against capital, colonial violence, climate catastrophe, racism, and sexism. The feminist and ecological analysis, the militant tools and methods, the refusal of the lies and myths that prop up a crisis-making world order, and the pluralist vision of a life worth living found in this book warrant collective study and coordinated action.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Saru Jayaraman,\u003c\/strong\u003e lawyer, activist, and author of \u003cem\u003eOne Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Any glimpse into the future forecasts care work as an ever-growing portion of our economy. \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e is a lush provocation that reexamines the fundamental work that nurtures and sustains communities around the globe, shedding new light on the internationalization of precarious and feminized labor. Amaia Pérez Orozco lifts up the 'chosen family' as a queer, anticapitalist network, one of many ways to pivot away from the defanged 'third sector' as delineated in the Global North, and toward a transformative social solidarity economy. Such cooperative economics are essential for our own thriving. The book serves as a timely reminder of the centrality of reproductive labor in making, and therefore re-making global systems through this type of queer, feminist, antiracist praxis. In doing so, it recasts feminized labor as the nexus of so many seemingly disparate crises—from ecology to gender exploitation to capitalism itself—and therefore the crux of solidarity through building power and new modalities of living together.” —\u003cstrong\u003eEsteban Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, Executive Director of the US Federation of Worker Co-ops, cofounder of AORTA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Through a rigorous, relentless exposure of the destructive logic governing capitalist development, Orozco sets the foundations for a feminist politics capable of subverting the myths propagated by capitalist economy and radically transforming the conditions and ends of our social reproduction. A must not only for feminists movements but for all engaged in the struggle to create a more just society.”—\u003cstrong\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/caliban-and-the-witch\" title=\"Caliban and the Witch\"\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Amaia Pérez Orozco skillfully recenters the feminist critique of contemporary capitalist economics on the practices of sustaining life.  The result is analytically rich and politically provocative.”—\u003cstrong\u003eKathi Weeks\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"Amaia Perez Orozco’s contributions for life against capital remind us of our humanness—and the contributions of ecofeminism to dismantling hierarchies, exploitation, and invisibleness—in order to fulfill our collective responsibilities to establish a good life for all. \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy \u003c\/em\u003ewell articulates the road to creating a clear commitment to achieve the interconnections and solidarity that will create and sustain a better world.” —\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Gordon-Nembhard\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCollective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“In the last decade, feminist political economy has experienced an efflorescence, as a generation of new thinkers has critically revised the practice of reading the interconnected spheres of misery produced by capitalism, in all its debilitating forms. Why? Because such heterodox, ruptural feminisms offer the most robust theorization of the multidimensional confluence of ecological devastation, state-sanctioned racism, deteriorating mental and physical wellbeing, colonial exploitation, reliance on unpaid work (including care), heteropatriarchal division and social murder. These crises are synthetically and historically produced in and through capitalism, a global totality and the epicenter of these problems. Amaia Pérez Orozco’s \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e is not just the exemplar of this critical-analytic tradition; this book is a further contribution towards the construction of “a solid base from which to fight”; a “utopian horizon”; a life-sustaining collectively-pedagogical project of “buen convivir”; and a feminist degrowth transition. This book will compel you think differently--and even better, with others!--as to how we can create a life-sustaining economy.”—\u003cstrong\u003eKai Bosworth\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFrom the perspective of feminism, we are aware that the socioeconomic system where we live is defined not only for being capitalist but also for being heteropatriarchal, for being structured in a racial way, for being (neo)colonialist, for being anthropocentric and so on... Given the abundance of the epithets which we can allude to, in these pages we opt for following Donna Haraway when she asks herself “how may we name that scandalous Thing?” (1991: 340). Well then, one of the defining elements of this scandalous Thing is that capitalist markets are at their epicenter. The starting point of the proposal that takes as analytic and politic axis the sustainability of life, when thinking about the economy and dealing with crisis, can be understood as a rebellion against the status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e What do we mean by capitalist markets being at the epicenter? In a material sense, we say that they are in the epicenter because their mechanisms define how the socioeconomic structure works; and because the socially guaranteed process is the accumulation of the capital. This inhibits a collective responsibility in the sustaining life and, moreover, establishes a constant threat within it, which ends up resolving (badly) in feminized and invisible areas. That is why we use the metaphor of an iceberg to illustrate the socioeconomic system. On a symbolic level, they are in the epicenter because their anthropocentric, ethnocentric and androcentric logic defines the very notion of life that is worth living. They impose a self-sufficiency ideal through the insertion in the market that can only be \u003cem\u003ereached\u003c\/em\u003e by a privileged subject, although this scope is fictitious and is based on the exploitation of the rest. But, even more, they are at the epicenter in political terms because from them we define the confrontation, which often is not only reduced to asking for improvements in their playing field (employment, salary, consumption), but it also establishes the hegemonic identity of the struggle to the worker subject, constituted, precisely, by its position in the wage relation, a relation defined in the framework of the capitalist markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eBut, what or who are those \u003cem\u003emarkets\u003c\/em\u003e? Capitalist markets are not deities; they are socioeconomic institutions in which power relations that privilege specific individuals are assembled, but whose functioning is not reducible to a confrontation between capitalists and workers, the ones on the top against the ones on the bottom, men facing up to women, the 1 % and the 99 %. They are a combination of structures that allow a few lives to be imposed as those worthy to be sustained by everyone, as the only ones worthy to be rescued in times of crisis. They are a series of mechanisms that organize specific lives in a hierarchy and establish as a referent and a top priority the life of a privileged individual who, following María José Capellín, we will call BBVAh as \u003cem\u003eWWMAh\u003c\/em\u003e: white, wealthy, male, adult, with a normative functionality, heterosexual. This is the face of the ones that rule the accumulation process. It is the individual that embodies the corporate power. Power and resources concentrate around it and define life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThrough this starting point, the feminist demand to put the sustainability of life at the center arises. Maybe at first, this proposal was a reaction in contrast to what-is-not, rather than a clear commitment to what-it-is. It was a promising alternative but it was still relatively incomplete; that is why it was easy to fill with idealizations and\/or be ignored. It was easy to play dumb for many people and leave the work to \u003cem\u003eco-workers\u003c\/em\u003e, for sure, praising the importance of the care and their spreading of love. Little by little, we are splitting hairs. For example, we can see that, while talking about the life-capital conflict, we cannot refer to an immaculate life tainted by capital, but we must open the debate on how to re-create accomplice (sexed) subjectivities. We can see that talking about heteropatriarchy is to talk about unpaid work, but also about much more, like mechanisms of regulation of the invisible spheres of the economy and of the constitution of subjects willing to inhabit them. From the reaction, we move on to the construction of another solid base from which to fight, and this is no longer so easy to avoid. This book is on that path between reacting to the perversity of the existing economy and proposing different ways of thinking and making lives (more) livable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eLooking from the sustainability of life is not simple, among other reasons, because it places us in a basic pressure: observe form outside of the capitalist markets a society in which these markets are the center. Understanding the process, but without being drawn by it. As a result of this same tension, declarations of intent are not enough in this proposal, because none of us has irrefutable truths; we need an arduous common process in which we rediscover the world, pulling together the threads of lucidity that are scattered. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIs talking about life sustainability to focus on who does the cooking? Yes and no. Of course, it means talking about that, but also wondering about megaprojects, the free trade agreements or the balance of payments. What is unique is that we landed all of this in certain individuals with peculiar decessities, with social relationships and with a specific positioning in that scandalous Thing. We talk about who cooks and how time is divided. And we also talk about how the steel of the cutlery has been extracted, transformed and exported; how the food chain, from which we eat, operates; the source where the energy with which we cook comes from. We want to understand if rice is more expensive because the capitals take refuge in \u003cem\u003esafe values\u003c\/em\u003e now that speculating with subprime mortgages is too risky; and if the coffee that we drink comes from large plantations that have stolen the land to the peasant economy. Looking from life sustainability involves wondering if, in the end, all that complex gear allows the people that make it up to eat or not, good or bad, with food sovereignty or without it, with quality time to sit at a table, with imposed or chosen companies. And if people are malnourished, it is not very worthy that the result of the balance of payments is positive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis proposal has pros and cons which are related to that popularity on the ordinary life. If we long for a common and democratically argued notion of good living together, it is necessary to politicize what we often live as problems (or successes) not only the personal ones, but the minuscule ones, from our day to day. It is about starting from oneself in order not to remain in oneself “politicize the existence [and] leave from oneself” (Precarias a la deriva, 2004a: 83). In that sense, it can be an appropriate proposal for a variety of people. Although talking about the evolution of the earning rates or the marginal productivity rates sounds foreign to most people, discussing if we live well, badly or regular in our ordinary lives is something that everybody can use as a starting point. However, this is also its most dangerous risk. It is very easy to start from what is ordinary and stay in what is ordinary without daring to question the whole matter. A frequently idealized day-to-day: a working-class home where family protects itself from the capitals on sleights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40454067224669,"sku":"9781942173199","price":22.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173199_FC.png?v=1661364570"},{"product_id":"stepford-daughters-weapons-for-feminists-in-contemporary-horror","title":"Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCapitalism and patriarchy create monsters—but inside the darkness there lurks a strange utopia. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etogether\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat happens when your smile is no longer yours? Films like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHereditary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Babadook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGet Out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, we see how poor women and women of color perform the invisible labor that makes society run while experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession. In “coming of rage” films such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssassination Nation and Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewe see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1662669659561_6011\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohanna Isaacson\u003c\/strong\u003e writes academic and popular pieces on horror and politics. She is a professor of English at Modesto Junior College and a founding editor of \u003cem\u003eBlind Field Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ballerina and the Bull\u003c\/em\u003e, has published widely in academic and popular journals, and runs the Facebook group \"Anti-capitalist Feminists Who Like Horror Films.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Johanna Isaacson’s \u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant and critically important elucidation of how ‘class horror is gender horror’ in the twenty-first century. The book explores twenty contemporary horror films that depict how public and private, work and family, have become intertwined under neoliberal politics—and how labor at home and in the workplace has become increasingly feminized and devalued. With an incisive theoretical framework and incredibly rich and illuminating readings, Isaacson’s book offers a much-needed approach to horror, eloquently demonstrating how horror films can both diagnose the problems of neoliberal and gendered capitalism and give us monstrous figures who resist and transform.” \u003cstrong\u003eDawn Keetley, editor of \u003cem\u003eJordan Peele's \u003c\/em\u003eGet Out\u003cem\u003e: Political Horror\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Johanna Isaacson is a worthy successor to Robin Wood and Carol Clover, and\u003cem\u003e Stepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e deftly analyzes some of the most popular and accomplished contemporary horror films at the nexus of feminism and capitalism. Full of brilliant insights that apply decades of feminist theory to horror cinema, this is essential reading for horror scholars, pop culture enthusiasts, and anyone who desires a greater insight into the intersectional dynamics of the capitalist class war.” \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Truscello, author of \u003cem\u003eInfrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Surveying dozens of recent horror films and engaging a rich critical archive of social reproduction theory, \u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e makes provocative and evocative interventions into contemporary cultural theory.  A leading scholar in the field of horror criticism whose work is also broadly accessible, Isaacson offers readings that are at once militant and playful, and she persuasively locates in the horror genre a radical current of Marxist-feminist critique that we need now more than ever”. \u003cstrong\u003eAnnie McClanahan, author of \u003cem\u003eDead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st-Century Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Johanna Isaacson's \u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e draws from social reproduction to explore the way in which contemporary horror illustrates the intimacy of exploitation. It proposes not just a new understanding of recent horror films, but a groundbreaking illustration of the monstrosity of daily life under contemporary capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.” \u003cstrong\u003eJason Read, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“In this brilliant and compulsively readable book, Johanna Isaacson unpacks a bunch of recent horror films, focusing on what they tell us about gender and class oppression. Horror films in the 21st century are a kind of social realism. They hold a mirror up to social conditions that are so ubiquitous and so commonly taken for granted that we have forgotten that we can fight back against them. Isaacson shows us how horror films can work as tools for understanding, and even for social transformation.” \u003cstrong\u003eSteven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e”\u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful exploration of the trans-generational horror of women’s experience under contemporary capitalism. In an analysis attentive to the possibilities of horror film as a mode of realism, which explores in horror form the anxieties that shape our lives, Isaacson expertly brings together Marxism, feminism, and Queer readings into exciting new configurations. Tapping into the 21st-century horror film renaissance, \u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e offers an insightful reading of our bad times and how we might end them.” \u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Noys, author of \u003cem\u003eMalign Velocities: Accelerationism \u0026amp; Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Johanna Isaacson is one of the boldest, most lucid critics working on horror today. \u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e includes some of her most original and paradigm-defining works on the subject, opening in particular a whole new avenue of thinking regarding the intersections between class and gender in horror. Full of exciting insights and bravura readings, this book is a landmark not only for the study of horror, but for the study of contemporary cinema in general.” \u003cstrong\u003eIgnacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of \u003cem\u003eScreening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988–2012\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"Jo Isaacson is one of Marxist feminism’s leading lights, and this box of 'tools' for horror viewers is more like an arsenal, chockful of weapons with which to abolish the present state of things. Teaching us how to read both with and against the grain of domestic horror cinema, uncovering the bathtubs full of blood in the 'hiddener abodes' of social reproduction, \u003cem\u003eStepford Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e is a true triumph of cultural criticism, and beautifully written, to boot. Via entertaining and ingeniously grouped readings of movies by turns scary, gory, creepy and uncanny, Isaacson takes us on a denaturalizing journey through housework, motherhood, stratified reproduction, emotional labor, migrant and indigenous oppression, and queer monstrosity, bravely pointing towards the horizon called ‘abolition of the family.’ In these pages, we experience the full potential of the critically utopianist 'antiwork' sensibility for which \u003cem\u003eBlind Field\u003c\/em\u003e, the journal of cultural inquiry Isaacson co-founded, is best known. Inside these elegant interlocking critiques, we glimpse horizons of social possibility beyond the family, beyond whiteness, beyond gender, beyond the state, and beyond capital itself.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sophie-lewis\" title=\"Sophie Lewis\"\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-e8c7a4c3870dffc8c521\" data-block-type=\"47\" class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-aa7d0e66d9959773b2e9\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTRODUCTION: CLASS HORROR IS GENDER HORROR\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eYou think you know this story. You think it’s the story your mother told you. An ambitious woman with hopes and dreams is submerged in a nightmare. She is trapped in her home, reduced to nothing but a caregiver. You think it’s the story of Joanna from the 1975 film \u003cem\u003eThe Stepford Wives.\u003c\/em\u003e Joanna was smart and educated. She loved photography and dirty jokes. But once she moves to Stepford, her husband joins a “men’s society” that has a plan for unruly spouses: to turn them into robot housewives, content with a friendless, jobless life of chores and husbands, dust and dirt.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eForty-two years later, another woman is trapped in a suburban house with her difficult son. By day, she tries to keep it together, at night a cadaverous spectral monster stalks her dreams. She becomes increasingly dissociated—her mind drifts darkly as she washes the dishes and cleans the house. In the kitchen she finds a slit in the wall pouring out cockroaches. Later, as she lies sleepless at night, an ominous shadow spreads across the ceiling, flying suddenly into her petrified, screaming mouth. After this, she will no longer be an exhausted mother, but the powerful, murderous Babadook ready to slaughter her own child to get back the husband she has lost.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eLike Joanna\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eAmelia, the protagonist of \u003cem\u003eThe Babadook, \u003c\/em\u003eis driven to horrific extremes by domestic life. Some things never change. And yet, things have changed. Joanna was depicted as a victim of what Betty Friedan called “the problem with no name,” entrapment in the home. You can see women afflicted with this problem march in lockstep: the robotic Stepford Wives in their matching aprons, plastered smiles, obsessing over their cleaning products, having relinquished all aspirations and independence. The cure prescribed to them was to \u003cem\u003eget out\u003c\/em\u003e of their suburban homes and into the job market. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis is not the way out for our single working mom, Amelia. She suffers the demeaning horrors of domestic life but her terrors don’t stop at the threshold of the home. Inside and outside her gloomy house, she is stretched to the max, working a precarious job as a caretaker in an old age home where abandoned elders clamor for her constant emotional labor. The work world has not solved her problems but compounded them. As the pressures overtake her, building to her demonic possession, she calls in sick to her workplace. In response, all her work shifts are taken away, leaving Amelia’s future even more uncertain and strained. It is only then, when the total weight of this merciless world is bearing down on her, that she fully transforms into the monster. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn thinking about the transition from \u003cem\u003eThe Stepford Wives\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eThe Babadook\u003c\/em\u003e we can look back to classic horror films that captured their audiences by building a genealogy, or line of descent. In the thirties we encounter such titles as \u003cem\u003eSon of Frankenstein \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eDracula’s Daughter \u003c\/em\u003ethat built on the popularity of name-recognition monsters. While this is no longer the style, horror films are still adept at forming critical lineages. There is a continuous thread of feminist critique throughout the history of horror, but the terms of this criticism mutate to suit changing realities.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn this sense, Amelia is, like other feminized people of horror discussed in this book, a “Stepford Daughter.” By this, I mean that the women of contemporary horror and of the contemporary world at large have inherited the oppressive conditions of the housewife but are examples of how these problems historically transform. We don’t want to forget what our mothers struggled for (and against). As we face a bleak neoliberal world of austerity and precarity, however, we need to know how gendered oppression works \u003cem\u003enow\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40500701397085,"sku":"9781942173694","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173694_FC.jpg?v=1662749219"},{"product_id":"comedy-against-work-utopian-longing-in-dystopian-times","title":"Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eHumor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call “work,” what does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBoth philosophically brilliant and deeply personal, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComedy Against Work\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how laughing about work can puncture the pretensions of tyrannical bosses while uniting us around a commitment to radically new ways of making the world together. At the same time, Lane-McKinley exposes a war at the heart of contemporary comedy between those who see comedy as a weapon for punching down and those whose laughter points to social transformation. From stand-up to sitcoms, podcasts to late night, comedy reveals our longing to subvert power, escape the prison of work, and envision the joys of a liberated world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1646329672473_10461\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadeline Lane-McKinley\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, professor, and Marxist-feminist with a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a founding member of \u003cem\u003eBlind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has appeared in publications such as \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEntropy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGUTS\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCultural Politics\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eDear Z\u003c\/em\u003e and a contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Comedy can be a weapon, Madeline Lane-McKinley reminds us, in any hands, for good or for fascist purposes. In her hands, it is a scalpel for taking apart the world of work, for teaching us how it got so damn bad. But it is also, she brilliantly reminds us, a tool for dismantling capitalist common sense. Join her as she encourages us to embrace laughter as a refusal of work and to claim the rich pleasures of being a killjoy.” \u003cstrong\u003eSarah Jaffe\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWork Won't Love You Back\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eComedy Against Wor\u003c\/em\u003ek is the most pleasurable, wide-ranging, and deeply knowledgeable guide to the contradictions of contemporary capitalist culture that I have read in a very long time. Lane-McKinley achieves that rare accomplishment: a book that will appeal equally to casual lovers of humor and its history, from the origins of stand-up to the lockdown comedy podcast, and to readers looking for a critical account of how this history of humor intersects with the changing landscape of work in the U.S. context from the 1970s to the present. \u003cem\u003eComedy Against Work\u003c\/em\u003e sits squarely within the great tradition of Marxist books that offer a framework for thought to an audience longing to understand \u003cem\u003ewhy \u003c\/em\u003ethings are the way they are, how they got to be that way, what it means, and what we can do with this knowledge to change our conditions for the better. A great addition to the growing corpus of popular manifestos coming from leading thinkers of the Left.“ \u003cstrong\u003eJordy Rosenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“From working-class sitcoms to podcasts about making podcasts, this whirlwind tour of American comedy brings labor to the front, where Madeline Lane-McKinley reveals it has been all along. You’ll never laugh the same!” \u003cstrong\u003eMalcolm Harris\u003c\/strong\u003e,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eKids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“When work sucks and society appears on the verge of collapse, the laugh-makers are there to numb us back into passivity. But sometimes, Madeline Lane-McKinley reminds us, there are class clowns  who help us envision a more egalitarian alternative and future. In this radically insightful and critical analysis of the relationship between labor, comedy, and political economy, Lane-McKinley looks closely and clearly at the anti-utopian and utopian potential of comedy alongside the social and political divides that pervade our everyday lives.” \u003cstrong\u003eRaúl Pérez\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy\u003c\/em\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“What a deeply creative exploration of humor and its discontents Madeline Lane-McKinley has given us, one which takes readers on a tour of sitcoms, standup, late night and comedy strikes. What is so funny about late capitalism, anyway? This is a book about the wages of laughter and it’s for anyone who has wondered whether the joke is on capitalism or them.”\u003cstrong\u003e Leigh Claire La Berge\u003c\/strong\u003e, Fellow at Free University of Berlin and author of \u003cem\u003eWages Against Artwork\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Madeline Lane-McKinley is among the brightest fruits in the anglophone critical ecology of utopian thinkers, and this hotly anticipated book does not disappoint. Here, the labors of laughter—in and against capitalism's work society—become a way of understanding structural violence, a gauge for shifting economic logics, and also a possible weapon for liberation. In these pages, Lane-McKinley showcases the full potential of the unique tendency of antiwork cultural criticism for which \u003cem\u003eBlind Field\u003c\/em\u003e, the journal she co-founded, is known. \u003cem\u003eComedy Against Work\u003c\/em\u003e not only educates our desire for a world utterly transformed, it provides us with tools that can help us actualize it.” \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sophie-lewis\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Moving deftly between mordant critique and radical hope, \u003cem\u003eComedy Against Work\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates both the comedy of work and the work of comedy. Attuned to comedy’s history and politics as well as to its form, Lane-McKinley offers a compelling and original narrative that gets us from Lucille Ball frantically trying to keep pace with an assembly line to contemporary feminist stand-up and its anti-work “dream of rest.” \u003cem\u003eComedy Against Work\u003c\/em\u003e also provocatively breaks the form of the traditional scholarly “work” by interweaving personal narratives—from Lane-McKinley’s memories of watching her grandmother watch TV while doing housework to her own experiences as an academic “gigworker.” Smart, moving, and politically fierce, this book will change the way we think about comedy and illuminate the way to a world beyond work.” \u003cstrong\u003eAnnie McClanahan\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“A lively, amusing, galvanizing charting of comedy's unique capacity to register our pervasive ambivalence about work: our dependence on it, our complicated ways of being shaped and plagued by it, and our desires to escape it. Rooted in our antiwork moment, but historicizing comedic forms from the sitcom to the stand-up routine to the Covid comedy special, Lane-McKinley sees comedy as revolutionary laughter, bulwark against despair, collective complaint, and utopian longing because the world of work we've known—abuse, compulsion, mortal danger to self and planet—isn't the only possibility.” \u003cstrong\u003eSarah Brouillette\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of English, Carleton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-1648bc0a806539a38b59\" data-block-type=\"47\" class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003eExcerpt \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-2474a95749fc8e28392f\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: Work is a Joke \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“‘Labour’ by its very nature is unfree, unhuman, unsocial activity[.]” —Karl Marx\u003cbr\u003e“Humor is reason gone mad.”—Groucho Marx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eNothing quite captures the dystopianism of our everyday lives as precisely, and exhaustively, as the idea of work. In its most capacious sense, work is waged, unwaged, valued, exploited, secure, precarious; work exceeds the boundaries of jobs and careers, sometimes called love and care; work is what it takes to “not work,” whether in the fantasy of leisure, the work of others, or the day-to-day work of surviving unhoused, unemployed, and uninsured. Work is our social totality, comprising all the activities we cannot know without compulsion under capitalism; it is what we struggle to see beyond, think outside of, or imagine alternatives to. Work, in short, is what robs us of life, while being, at the same time, indistinguishable from whatever life might be.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWork is also killing us, and not just metaphorically. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a global study which determined that roughly 745,000 people died from overwork that year alone, while an estimated 488 million more were exposed to overwork-related health risks. Between 2000 and 2016, the study found that work-related disease burden had risen substantially, with the number of deaths from heart disease associated with overwork increasing by 42%. Four years later, work was made even more dangerous with the spread of COVID-19. Across workforces, so many people continue to die unnecessary deaths, sacrificed for the sake of capitalism’s survival in a regime of “going back to normal.” Meanwhile, the pressure placed on households has intensified housework and caretaking, along with rates of domestic violence. And workers who were lucky enough to have remote jobs in this time, lessening their chances of exposure and transmission, have faced their own set of risks including increased rates of substance abuse, self-harm and suicide. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe contours of work have long been debated, precisely because to define something as work has such tremendous political stakes. In Marxism, whether or not certain kinds of work are \u003cem\u003evalue-producing\u003c\/em\u003e, and how, will remain a point of contention for the foreseeable future. The crucial Marxist-feminist interventions of the twentieth century focused on the integral role of reproductive labor under capitalism – labor primarily based in the household, naturalized as labors of love, including cooking and cleaning but likewise, childcare, eldercare, nursing, sex, and much more. The last decade in Marxist-feminism has seen a trend toward social reproduction as a framework through which, as Tithi Bhattacharya suggests, “we begin to see emerge myriad capillaries of social relations extending between workplace, home, schools, hospitals – a wider social whole, sustained and co-produced by human labor in contradictory yet constitutive ways.” To the extent that ‘work’ describes the dystopia of capitalist life, in this sense, it also illuminates a utopianism through these capillaries of social relations, orienting us towards the possibilities of a wider social whole. “Because reproduction is inherently an affirmative process,” Amy De’Ath explains, there has been a strong tendency in Marxist-feminism to conceive reproduction through “its potentiality as a site of resistance.” What happens, De’Ath asks, “when we conceive of reproductive labor not as an outside or excess to the sphere of value-production… but as a negative dialectic internal to capital and labor?” While drawing from different Marxist-feminist conceptions of reproductive labor and social reproduction, this book approaches work as both expansionary and profoundly conflicted – by no means just a matter of jobs and employment, and very often a matter of what is unseen or even disacknowledged. Rather than approach work as a category, however, I want to think about work as a \u003cem\u003eproblem\u003c\/em\u003e. To the extent that a category seeks to contain, distill, and organize, a problem generates an opening for critique, disruption, and transformation. In \u003cem\u003eThe Problem with Work\u003c\/em\u003e, Kathi Weeks describes work’s problem as “not just that it monopolizes so much time and energy, but that it also dominates the social and political imaginaries.” Work exhausts our capacities to imagine a life against it, dominating our dreams, and even our attempts at refusal. To this problem, Weeks asks, “What might we name the variety of times and spaces outside waged work, and what might we wish to do with and in them?” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eAt the heart of ‘work’ – like any dystopia – there are utopian questions. In \u003cem\u003eLost in Work\u003c\/em\u003e, Amelia Horgan beautifully articulates this contradiction: work, she argues, must be understood for its world-transforming capacities, yet as it stands, these capacities “are channeled into activity that causes harm on a massive scale… [toward] the destruction of human life.” While epitomizing so much of our shared misery, the various activities that comprise ‘work’ in our life under capitalism also reflect back to us the ways that human effort, as Horgan writes, “has the power to change the world.” Work, on the one hand, typifies our life under capitalism—the conditions of living in a world that creates so much harm, on so many scales—and on the other hand, work gives us insight into the desires and longings over which capitalism continually exerts its control.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn recent years, this contradiction has threatened to burst the world of work. “Work itself is no longer working,” Sarah Jaffe argues in \u003cem\u003eWork Won’t Love You Back\u003c\/em\u003e. Today’s ideal workers “love their work but hop from job to job like serial monogamists; their hours stretch long and the line between the home and the workplace blurs,” she explains, exploring the ways in which this idea that we should love our work has been “cracking under its own weight” since the 2008 financial crisis. The “world that constructed that desire is falling apart around us,” she writes, “the exposure to capitalism’s cruelty makes the demand to love our jobs a brutal joke.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThis book is about that brutal joke and how we inhabit it, while dreaming of ways out. It’s a story that begins with the post-crisis era, during which, as Jaffe suggests, the illusions and false promises of work steadily eroded—just as, paradoxically, the world of work became ever more suffocating. I trace these dynamics in the comedy boom of this period, looking to comedy as a complex terrain of capitalist work ethics and anti-work longings. I consider the ways the comedy industry has thrived in capitalist crisis, and how comedy has been produced and experienced through different media ranging from live performance to stand-up specials, serialized shows and podcasts, films, as well as popular histories and memoirs, all while teasing out how and why these uneasy feelings about the world of work become legible and collectively thinkable through comedy. The attempt, throughout this book, will be to examine and question anti-work comedy as a utopian impulse of contemporary culture, with the potential to disarticulate and challenge dominant conceptions of work. In thinking through this critical potential, I’ll focus on comedy in the context of three historical turning points: capitalism’s ideological and economic post-crisis recovery, the workplace critiques of #MeToo, and the transformations of work in the COVID-19 pandemic. During each of these junctures, in different ways, comedy not only flourished, but brought the world of work into question—never taking one step without the other. Through these important historical transformations, this book follows anti-work critique and post-work longing as key aspects of contemporary comedy, and as sources of insight into collective, political vacillations in this time between revolutionary eruptions of energy and descents into melancholia, nihilism, and dystopian dread.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40623218196573,"sku":"9781942173700","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173700_fc-1.jpg?v=1666186990"},{"product_id":"grupo-de-arte-callejero-thoughts-practices-and-actions","title":"Grupo de Arte Callejero: Thoughts, Practices, and Actions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn indispensable reflection on what was done and what remains to be done in the social fields of art and revolution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrupo de Arte Callejero: Thought, Practices, and Actions\u003c\/em\u003e tells the profound story of social militancy and art in Argentina over the last two decades and propels it forward. For Grupo de Arte Callejero (Group of Street Artists), militancy and art blur together in the anonymous, collective, everyday spaces and rhythms of life. Thought, Practices and Actions offers an indispensable reflection on what was done and what remains to be done in the social fields of art and revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery new utopian struggle that emerges must to some extent be organized on the knowledge of its precedents. From this perspective, Grupo de Arte Callerjo situates their experience in a network of previous and subsequent practices that based more on popular knowledge than on great theories. Their work does not elaborate a dogma or a model to follow, but humbly expresses their interventions within Latin American autonomous politics as a form of concrete, tangible support so that knowledge can be generalized and politicized by a society in movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithout a doubt this will not be the most exhaustive book that can be written on the GAC, nor the most complete, nor the most acute and critical, but it is the one GAC wanted to write for themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrupo de Arte Callejero (GAC), Group of Street Artists, formed in 1997 out of a need to create a space where the artistic and political could be collectively reappropriated as a single means of production. Their work blurs the boundaries between militancy and art and develops confrontational forms and strategies that operate within determined contexts: the street, the occupation, the demonstration. From the beginning, their work has searched for a space for visual communication that escapes the traditional circuit of exhibition and exploitation, taking the appropriation of public spaces as its central axis of production. A large part of their work is anonymous in character, which allows for the continued elaboration of these practices and methodologies by like-minded individuals or groups. Many of their projects have emerged as collective constructions with political movements, groups, and individuals, creating a unique dynamic of production that is in permanent transformation due to this constant exchange and putting into political practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-0383c0d9a2140050d48b\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImage and Memory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eSince their formation in 1977, the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) have made the disappeared visible through their bodies. The act of being in the plaza, occupying that space and circulating within it, gave form to the struggle against the impunity that existed during the worst of times in the dictatorship. Every Thursday, transcending the known cultural repertoire and iconography, they were present with their persistence in the Plaza de Mayo. Through their bodies in motion, they offset the proclamation of martial law and the prohibition against public meetings. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eSince Argentina’s transition to democracy, the Madres have prolonged and vindicated this embodied practice. The white handkerchiefs emphasize that the Mother’s action is highly symbolic and the use of public space is consciously strategic. The Mothers acted against the repressive system of representation that so effectively limited the possibilities of visibility and expression. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eFor many years, “Living Ghosts” was the slogan used by the human rights organizations against those culpable for the atrocities. Since its appearance, the slogan was always linked to a forceful use of public space and of the accompanying image. The acts and interventions in the public space produced it as a site in which the traces of the recent past are transmitted and where these traces are placed in relation to the construction of public images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWith the return to democracy came the continued push towards condemnation. At first, the testimonies of survivors, relatives, and witnesses occupied a central space. For many Argentines, the terrible stories of what happened opened many eyes and many ceased to deny the atrocities of years past. The CONADEP report and the trial of the ex-commanders constitute two paradoxical moments in the explosion of testimony. In this moment, the theory of the two demons was elaborated. A little later, still under the presidency of Raul Alfonsín, the laws of impunity are passed (Obediencia Debida and Punto Final). Finally, Menem signed a presidential pardon for those who had led the dictatorship’s state terrorism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Escrache \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe escrache that emerged from the works of H.I.J.O.S. also works in the realm of the symbolic. Both the Madres and H.I.J.O.S. use public space denouncing and marking the houses of the dictatorial repressors and their accomplices. Their action consists in signaling and narrating the links that connect thirty years of impunity with the present reality in Argentina. The Madres and H.I.J.O.S., even with their differences in strategy, do not accept the prohibition on public space. On the contrary, they use this as a stage on which they unfold a strategic cartography of action. This is a mode of action that emphasizes the role of memory as a function of the present, and not just the past. A live, active, and actual memory. We always think of the construction of memory in this sense: from the present, from the action, recuperating spaces, denouncing events and people, creating links between the past, present, and future. In this act of making every day the present, memory begins to be constructed from what was recuperated and from where one is intervening. In this way we move, from the escraches to the project of the Parque de la Memoria (Memory Park) in which the official objective was to pay homage to those disappeared between 1976-1983. In the face of the state-sanctioned outline of history emerged our first group initiative of working in a broader historical framework, inquiring into the causes and consequences of the dictatorship as a way of complicating the sense of historical time we were trying to put into question. We arrived at this approach from the action-image that we practice in the escrache, as the escrache was the opening that pushed us into more complete and complicated projects. In the act of denouncing, we felt the necessity to deepen our work, both discursively and textually, making complex the image of the condemnation. Not only for a mere theoretical undoing but also to take responsibility for limitations when it comes time to communicate. We need to, then, feed from other discourses to create new images. It is in this way that we construct a rich collective reading of diverse materials on the dictatorship and the period that preceded it–from a different analysis. We propose research as part of this communication process using images that from starts from feeling and not purely from a rational place. At the same time, we have formed strong bonds with H.I.J.O.S and with other human rights organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeighborhood Actions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThese neighborhood actions have precedents such as what happened in San Telmo beginning in the mid-90s with the group “Encuentro por la Memoria” (“Meeting for Memory”) and its work there. For a long time, together with the San Telmo assemblies, they organized marches that passed in front of the homes of the neighborhood’s desaparecidos, or the places where they were kidnapped. The important thing here was to create a mark, but in an inverse way from what was achieved with the escraches, where the mark was for the repressor. The mark of the homages works to create a sense of everyday memory and to construct micro-histories. It wasn’t about looking for a symbol for the desaparecidos, but rather we did think about what could characterize each one of them. In that way, the pictures of the disappeared of San Telmo were resignfied using only their gaze.  During the march-homage we placed little squares with the cropped photos, together with the name and former address of each person. At the same time we told the neighbors about who lived or worked in those places, who had been kidnapped in such in such corner or building. These type of actions were realized in several different neighborhoods in the city of Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40845308428381,"sku":"9781942173106","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Screen_2BShot_2B2019-05-01_2Bat_2B3.43.13_2BPM.png?v=1673024337"},{"product_id":"the-commonist-horizon-urban-futures-beyond-capitalist-urbanization","title":"The Commonist Horizon: Urban Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a revolutionary alternative to capital's organization of our lived environment has been the commons, wherein inhabitants communally control the multi-faceted conditions that make up their daily reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a district behind the train station in the post-socialist city of Vilnius Lithuania faces gentrification, an autonomous community center there has sought to use commoning to resist. Taken up in the former state-socialist Eastern Block, commoning practices are embraced as a method for criticising the vicious wave of enclosures that began after the fall of state-socialism while at the same time not relying on the heavily stigmatized politics of state-socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmerging from a process of thinking together, The Commonist Horizon features five interventions by movement thinkers. Beginning in the post-Soviet city of Vilnius, the dialogical process stretches outward to two other formerly state-socialist countries, and then beyond. Speaking from their experiences in social movement formations, the authors take up the lived experience of building what might be called urban commons, offering insights on the conceptual and political potentials and limitations of this terminology and associated practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“London is a razor, an inflamed calm has settled, we’re trapped outside on its rim. […] [It's] hard to concentrate what with all the police raids, the punishment beatings, the retaliatory fires. It’d be too much to say the city’s geometry has changed, but its getting into some fairly wild buckling. Its gained in dimension, certain things are impossible to recognise, others are all too clear.\" – Sean Bonney, 'Letter on Silence: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSean Bonney's poem offers us a terrifying vision of the city in which its very form is being broken and reshaped by the forces bearing upon it. 'We' are relegated to the periphery, 'we’re trapped outside on its rim'. From this position of marginality recognition is proving difficult, our familiar coordinates are becoming estranged to us, yet this perpetual marginality and vulnerability is a common experience. This article then is an attempt to restore historicity and therefore the potential for change to this common experience of psychic and social estrangement, physical and social displacement, from the cities in which we live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  The experience of the common, and what prevents it, is very much a man-made process in London and the UK. Gentrification was first identified and named by London-based urban geographer Ruth Glass, and culture-led regeneration – a form of state-led urban development – was pioneered here in Tony Blair's 90s Britain and agressively exported by elements of his policy team worldwide.[1] Whilst widely criticised, the creative city model has far from completely collapsed. However, practical and theoretical opposition to it has become a substantial force, and as I argue here, in this process art has been made both the alibi and internal antagonist of urban regeneration projects. Art has also become a key placeholder for the common, and discourses of the commons have increasingly been taken up within the arts, as well as in activism globally. In this text I try to analyse some recent shifts and developments in the language used to describe state-led or developer-led urban transformation projects in the UK; Developing connections between concepts and practices, I will conclude by returning to the looser and  historically aleatory concept of the 'commons' as holding open an arena of struggle and agency –  of accessible everyday practices – in the face of excessive capitalisations of space, language and subjectivity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy own direct experience with commons has spanned supporting the defense by local groups of 'marsh users' of a small area of 'Lammas Land' a surviving commons with associated use rights pertaining to grazing animals, gathering of wood and water use in Waltham Forest, East London; generating and circulating critical writing about the mega-project of the London 2012 Olympics (which impinged on the historical commons mentioned above as well as purpose-built cooperatively-owned social housing; several travellers' sites, allotments and other crucial amenities).[2] (Notably, each of these amenities, prior to their destruction, found aspects of their consistency and coherence in anomaly to dominant property relations, or norms of habitation). This work was extended in a both journalistic and theoretical vein in my role as an editor at Mute following critically the development of discourses and practices of urban regeneration in the UK. The critique of a 'digital commons' advanced by Mute whereby enthusiasm for an emergent 'commons' was shown in fact to be based on the invention of new legal norms, privation and monetisation of 'free' activity can also be thought in relation to my maintenance of an online library of digitised texts (e.g. a Midnight Notes Collection). Throughout these experiences I have attempted to communicate, as I continue to do here, a conception of commons which ensures it is a living, antagonistic and not idealised or affirmative concept.[3]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMute was one of the key sites of development of the concept of the New Enclosures in the UK through diverse writing published in the magazine and website between the late-1990s and early-2000s.[4] Though this milieu was mostly unaware at the time, there was an earlier take up, at the end of the 1980s, of Midnight Notes' concepts of the commons and new enclosures in relationship to housing, class, land and gentrification struggles in the UK.[5] Another route into discussions of the commons was via the long tradition of 'history from below',[6] its concentration and politicisation by the post-war new left (E.P. Thompson, Dorothy Thompson, A.L. Morton, Christopher Hill and others) and the connections between their studies of historical enclosure in the UK and the activities of the peace movement in the 1950s through to the late-1980s.[7] Mute picked up on the class-oriented and alter globalist\/internationalist writing of Midnight Notes and the work of the New Left historians (of whom, \u003ca title=\"Peter Linebaugh\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/peter-linebaugh\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjAifQ==\"\u003ePeter Linebaugh\u003c\/a\u003e is a key mediating figure) and sought to use it to bridge and correct a certain smoothness around the use of commons as a metaphor as it was then, in the late-1990s to early-2000s, being used by Italian Marxists, Paolo Virno, Antonio Negri and others; social movements oriented towards the alter-globalisation movement, and rapidly being ported into the realm of digital rights and privacy.[8] The commons first appears as a problem here, because, in the face of a concrete resource: a swimming pool, a local library, a local law centre... a looser, positive discourse of commons can lead us to understand that the disciplinary encoding of local institutions is best left behind for something lighter on its feet, more mutable—supposedly more open to transformation by its users, temporary, etc. But lurking behind these loose forms are  indeed harder forms of ownership, law and cryptohierarchy (hierarchical organisations which dissimulate as non-hierarchical forms). Now that the commons has become a global concept used critically by social movements as well as uncritically and vaguely by all sorts of other actors and formations, I hope to continue here the work of renewing it as a critical concept by positioning it in relation to others.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary N. Taylor is a militant researcher whose praxis is grounded in anthropology, urbanism and dialogical art. She works with the internationalist East European platform LeftEast, and the affiliated roving summer school hosted by different social movement formations in the ‘post-socialist’ region; Brooklyn Laundry Social Club, and KnowWastelands Community Garden. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNoah Brehmer is a political theorist, cultural organizer and founding member of Luna6. He cofounded the Lithuanian critical media platform Life is Too Expensive. 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For a year, members of Unity and Struggle studied the uprising by interviewing fifteen comrades in five cities, compiling news coverage from the same cities, and surveying official reports from local governments and police departments in seventeen cities nationwide. We drew out common dynamics across locations, identified tactics and strategies that the movement and the ruling class used, explored what worked or didn't, and highlighted important challenges and questions that a future uprising will likely encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnity and Struggle is a national anti-state communist collective. We \u003cbr\u003eenvision a liberatory society in which people enjoy direct control and decision making power over the forces that shape our lives, and in which our collective wealth is shared freely to advance humanity. Such a revolutionary transformation requires the growth, and eventual coalescing, of existing independent movements to abolish racism, sexism, capitalism, and the state. We take part in this process by participating in local struggles to build working-class power, autonomy, and internationalism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.commonnotions.org\/buy\/big-brick-energy-a-multi-city-study-of-the-2020-george-floyd-uprising-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.commonnotions.org\/buy\/big-brick-energy-a-multi-city-study-of-the-2020-george-floyd-uprising-1\"\u003eclick here for free digital version\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40845309575261,"sku":null,"price":12.46,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Screen_Shot_2022-07-21_at_2.02.23_AM.png?v=1672684080"},{"product_id":"spirituality-and-abolition","title":"Spirituality and Abolition","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition can be a spiritual practice, a spiritual journey, and a spiritual commitment. What does abolition entail and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eTo posit the spirituality of abolition is to consider the ways historical and contemporary movements against slavery; prisons; the wage system; animal and earth exploitation; racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence; and the death penalty necessitate epistemologies that have been foreclosed through violent force by Western philosophical and theological thought. It is also to claim that the material conditions that will produce abolition are necessarily Black, Indigenous, queer and trans, feminist, and also about disabled and other non-conforming bodies in force and verve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpirituality\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition \u003c\/em\u003easks: What can prison abolition teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment? And, what can these things underscore about the struggle for abolition as a desired manifestation of material change in the worlds we currently inhabit? Collecting writings, poetry, and art from thinkers, organizers, and incarcerated people, the editors trace the importance of faith and spirit in our ongoing struggle towards abolitionist horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics \u003c\/em\u003eis a collectively-run project supporting radical scholarly and activist ideas, poetry, and art, publishing and disseminating work that encourages us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Spirituality and Abolition is an invaluable collective contribution to thinking abolitionist theology and spiritual praxis, an open invitation to an abolitionist struggle being waged in the earthly and also the immaterial and spiritual realm, demystifying the ways in which colonialism and anti-Blackness shape carceral religiosity and also calling forth and evoking liberationist models of spirituality. Activists, spiritual workers, clergy, and academics in religious and Black and Indigenous and feminist, queer and trans studies as well will greatly benefit from this indispensable anthology.” Che Gosset, Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Law School and Visiting Fellow, Animal Law and Policy Center, Harvard Law School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research articles, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative artworks is immensely important to the work of committed scholars, activists and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates and mobilizes here.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sinews-of-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula\" title=\"Laleh Khalili\"\u003eLaleh Khalili\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTime in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e is an urgent reminder that theorizing and practicing abolition must take place across prison walls and the boundaries imposed by the colonial state, heteropatriarchy, settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism. Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/jackie-wang\" title=\"Jackie Wang\"\u003eJackie Wang\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/carceral-capitalism\" title=\"Carceral Capitalism\"\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“As the world we know is shattering more rapidly than we might have ever imagined, comes \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds, \u003c\/em\u003ean urgent call to build the new. These pieces movingly remind us that liberation will not transpire solely through opposition; it demands radical inquiry, imagination, creation. This collection brilliantly illustrates a core truth: we don't need ‘alternatives to incarceration,’ we need a wildly recreated society in which incarceration is unthinkable. \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Words \u003c\/em\u003ewill nourish and fuel struggles for transformation.” Maya Schenwar, author of \u003cem\u003eLocked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better \u003c\/em\u003eand coauthor with \u003ca title=\"Victoria Law\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e of \u003cem\u003ePrison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich and compelling mixed-genre collection of radical perspectives that makes an urgent contribution to abolitionist world-making. Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis—what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed!\" J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of \u003cem\u003eHawaiian Blood \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Indigenous Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003ca title=\"Abolishing Carceral Society\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolishing-carceral-society-abolition-a-journal-of-insurgent-politics\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjkifQ==\"\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom. The pieces in this collection provoke new questions that inform resistance strategies, and deepen our understandings of the systems we are seeking to abolish and the social relations we are working to transform. This collection will be a profoundly useful tool in classrooms and activist groups. The conversation happening in Abolition is essential reading for those participating in the thorny, complex debates about how we dismantle structures of state violence and domination. The writers and artists whose work makes up the inaugural issue of Abolition, rigorously explore the most pressing questions emerging in liberation struggles.\" \u003ca title=\"Dean Spade\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003eis a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. Many of the submissions, however, are less concerned with dismantling what exists than they are with taking seriously that abolition is a project interested in building and in practical organizing. This comes through particularly in David Turner's essay, among others. Abolishing Carceral Society asks us some questions that we sometimes prefer to ignore, like ‘What does it mean to transform human relations?’ This inaugural issue from Abolition pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon.\" \u003ca title=\"Mariame Kaba\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, founder of Project NIA, and cofounder of Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls \u0026amp; Young Women, and Love \u0026amp; Protect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Abolition is a crucial contribution to radical social movements. While fighting against prisons and the death penalty as instruments of class rule, the journal amplifies the voices of the incarcerated, actively engages with organizers on the ground, and builds bridges across multiple movements. The first issue, \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers.\" \u003ca title=\"Silvia Federici\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"From slavery to prisons, abolition has always been a project of courage and breadth. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e brings to bear the reflective, transformative urgency needed to confront today's violent world order. Of the struggle, by the struggle, and for the struggle: this auspicious collection offers not answers but pathways down which contemporary abolitionists travel en route to a future freedom. Check out their words, scope their visions—heed their calls.\" \u003ca title=\"Dan Berger\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e continues the radical, democratic tradition started by abolitionists to speak truth to power. In these dismal political times, it is a matter of the greatest urgency to create and sustain a counter-public sphere and an alternative print culture to sustain and expand American democracy.  This remarkable and inspiring advocacy journal is poised to do precisely that for democratic activists as well as the broader lay public.\" Manisha Sinha, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"The \u003cem\u003eAbolition\u003c\/em\u003e Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising, the collective seeks to bring radical perspectives to a wide readership within and beyond academe. With the publication of its inaugural issue we are treated to the very best of revolutionary analysis.  Anybody interested in upending a carceral and colonial order will find plenty of inspiration here. Something we all need and do well to pass along.\" Steven Salaita, author of \u003cem\u003eInter\/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"The \u003cem\u003eAbolition\u003c\/em\u003e Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. It aims to combine an abolitionist message with a democratic production process that prioritizes participation of those directly affected by incarceration. What a welcome and needed approach! I am confident the project will help intellectuals build ties of solidarity across race, class, gender, nationality, and other borders that block liberation and in its finest moments will help teach us, as Mumia says, to ‘fight with light in our eyes.\" James Kilgore, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold journal mapping new roads out of the inferno in which we live. As the editors’ Manifesto tells us, ‘abolition’ is a key strategy out of our carceral, slave-like society—the prison being the pivotal place for the perpetuation of an unjust political system. But the journal also sheds light on the many ways in which we’re imprisoned beyond the prison’s walls. With scholarly articles, poems and artwork, in a beautifully designed text, it asks us to open our eyes and support a liberation struggle against jails and jailers.\" George Caffentzis, author of \u003cem\u003eIn Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Blood For Oil: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle and War, 1998–2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40854205726813,"sku":"9781942173724","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173724_FC_Spirituality_and_Abolition.jpg?v=1673024398"},{"product_id":"decolonize-conservation-global-voices-for-indigenous-self-determination-land-and-a-world-in-common","title":"Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a deep, anticolonial and antiracist critique and analysis of what “conservation” currently is, \u003cem\u003eDecolonize Conservation \u003c\/em\u003epresents an alternative vision–one already working–of the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Through the voices of largely silenced or invisibilized Indigenous Peoples and local communities, the devastating consequences of making 30 percent of the globe “Protected Areas,” and other so-called “Nature-Based Solutions” are made clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvidence proves Indigenous people understand and manage their environment better than anyone else. Eighty percent of the Earth’s biodiversity is in tribal territories and when Indigenous peoples have secure rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional conservation programs. But in Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the editors write, “This is colonialism pure and simple: powerful global interests are shamelessly taking land and resources from vulnerable people while claiming they are doing it for the good of humanity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe powerful collection of voices from the groundbreaking “Our Land, Our Nature” congress takes us to the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life and land across the globe. With Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center, the book exposes the brutal and deadly reality of colonial and racist conservation for people around the world, while revealing the problems of current climate policy approaches that do nothing to tackle the real causes of environmental destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the EDITORS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAshley Dawson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. His latest books include \u003cem\u003ePeople’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eExtreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eExtinction: A Radical History\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFiore Longo\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Research and Advocacy Officer at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples. She is also the director of Survival International France and Spain. She coordinates Survival’s conservation campaign and has visited many communities in Africa and Asia that face human rights abuses in the name of conservation. She has also visited Indigenous communities in Colombia and worked on Survival’s Uncontacted Tribes campaign. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSince 1969, \u003cstrong\u003eSurvival International\u003c\/strong\u003e has worked in partnership with tribal communities around the world, and together with supporters from over one hundred countries worldwide, to lead hundreds of successful campaigns for tribal peoples’ rights. The movement is helping to build a world where tribal peoples are respected as contemporary societies and their human rights protected. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the CONTRIBUTORS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeleste Alexander\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ecompleted a master’s degree and dissertation research in Anthropology at Princeton University and is currently ABD. She conducted fieldwork in Tanzania with Ikoma persons and neighboring communities along the western border of Serengeti National Park and among conservation, development, and tourism professionals. Celeste’s ethnographic work questions the efficacy and injustice of racialized “correctional” approaches to biodiversity conservation. Prior to her doctoral studies, Celeste worked for several years at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNoé Amador \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis currently the Community Delegate of Laguna del Tigre and Sierra del Lacandón, in the province of Petén, Guatemala. Noé is a farmer and from a very young age was an advocate for the human rights of these communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuillaume Blanc \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a lecturer at Rennes 2 University. An environment historian, he currently studies the global governance of nature and people in modern Africa. He is in charge of the collection “Environmental History” at Sorbonne Editions, where he has published, among others books, \u003cem\u003eUne histoire environnementale de la nation\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and coedited \u003cem\u003eHumanités environnementales: Enquêtes et contre-enquêtes\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). His latest book, \u003cem\u003eL’invention du colonialisme vert: Pour en finir avec le mythe de l’Éden africain\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2020 by Flammarion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeema Pathak Broome\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e studied environmental science before obtaining a postgraduate degree in wildlife management. As a member of Kalpavriksh, she coordinates the Conservation and Livelihoods program, where she advocates for decentralized, equitable, diverse, and context-sensitive conservation governance. Her work focuses on Indigenous and community heritage areas and territories (ACHAs). She has compiled a Directory of Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) in India and published numerous articles and books on conservation governance. Neema is coordinating a local community conservation process in eight villages in and around the Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra. She is also very involved in the ICCA Consortium in South Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJosefa Sanchez Contreras\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to the Zoque people of San Miguel Chimalapa, Oaxaca. She is a defender of the territory against extractivist mining projects. Researcher and Master in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Among her outreach works, she has published in the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e and collaborates on \u003cem\u003eOjarasca\u003c\/em\u003e, a monthly supplement of the Mexican newspaper \u003cem\u003eLa Jornada\u003c\/em\u003e, with articles on energy colonialism, communality, and Indigenous movements in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSimon Counsell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent researcher and writer on conservation, human rights, and “nature-based” climate solutions, and currently an advisor to the international Indigenous rights advocacy group Survival International. He was for twenty-three years the Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, a London-based NGO which supports Indigenous and traditional peoples of the world’s rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights. He has been on the front line of campaigns to protect the world’s forests for more than three decades, previously leading the international forests campaign for Friends of the Earth. He has a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc in Forestry and Land Use from Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePranab Doley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Indigenous activist from the Mising people; a founding member and former advisor to JKSS, a farmers’ and Indigenous-rights organization; and the Assistant Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), Assam. He has an MA in Social Work from the TATA Institute of Social Sciences. In 2021, he stood as an independent candidate in the Assam Assembly election, coming second to a sitting cabinet minister. Pranab has been instrumental in bringing global attention to large-scale human rights violations in and around Kaziranga National Park, holding the Forest Department and conservation NGOs to account. As a result of his activism, he has been harassed by the authorities and had multiple false criminal cases filed against him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRosaleen Duffy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of International Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is an expert on the international politics of conservation, especially the intersections between political ecology, social justice, and environmental change. Her research interests include the politics of protected areas, tourism, illegal wildlife trade, and global environmental governance. She has written several books, including an upcoming monograph on biodiversity and security with Yale University Press, which examines the ways in which the turn towards security and militarization to tackle illegal wildlife trade is reshaping conservation. She is currently Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded project examining illegal wildlife trade in Europe in bears, European eels, and songbirds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLara Domínguez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is Acting Head of Litigation at Minority Rights Group (MRG). She has oversight of MRG’s strategic litigation docket and has represented forest-dwelling Indigenous Peoples in East and Central Africa evicted in the name of conservation. Lara has published on issues pertaining to international law and human rights, including academic articles and briefing papers on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, land rights, and conservation policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoe Eisen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), where he has worked for the past twelve years in defense of community rights in tropical forests. Joe and his team have played a leading role in exposing the scale of human rights abuses linked to fortress conservation and in pushing for national and international reforms that recognize the role of forest communities in protecting biodiversity. An anthropologist by training, Joe worked with Indigenous organizations and environmental NGOs in India, Guyana, and Gabon before joining RFUK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJulien Basimika Enamiruwa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e’s home village, Bukanga, is less than five kilometers from the border of Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Almost all the inhabitants of the village are Indigenous Peoples from the Bakanga tribe. His father used to tell him about all the camps they lived in before they were evicted from the park, often lamenting the lack of access to a hill called Kabasi, which is one of the Bakanga’s sacred sites. In 2007, fleeing the attacks, killings, and looting of the Interahamwe (an African paramilitary group that was involved in the Rwandan genocide), Enamiruwa left the village for Bukavu, with his family, where he enrolled at university and obtained a master’s degree in social sciences. He soon met Indigenous rights advocates and integrated easily. It was in this context that he created Actions pour le Regroupement et l’Autopromotion des Pygmées (ARAP). After that he helped create the Réseau des Associations Autochtones Pygmées (RAPY) at a local level, and the Dynamique des Groupes des Peuples Autochtones (DGPA) at a national level. These days, his work involves teaching the Indigenous Peoples who live in and around the national park about their land rights and finding ways to bring their history to the international community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobert Fletcher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is based at the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. A former ecotourism guide, he is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, tourism, globalization, climate change, human-wildlife interaction, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict. His publications include the books \u003cem\u003eThe Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene, \u003c\/em\u003ecoauthored with Bram Büscher, and \u003cem\u003eRomancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDina Gilio-Whitaker \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. At CSUSM she teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy, Native women’s activism, American Indians and sports, and decolonization. She also works within the field of critical sports studies, examining the intersections of indigeneity and the sport of surfing. As a public intellectual, Dina brings her scholarship into focus as an award-winning journalist as well, with her work appearing at \u003cem\u003eIndian Country Today\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHigh Country News, Time.com, Slate, History.com, Bioneers, Truthout, \u003c\/em\u003ethe Pacifica Network\u003cem\u003e, Grist,\u003c\/em\u003e and many more. Dina is the author of two books; the most recent is the award-winning \u003cem\u003eAs Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently under contract with Beacon Press for a new book under the working title \u003cem\u003eIllegitimate Nation: Privilege, Race, and Accountability in the US Settler State.  \u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJuan Pablo Gutierrez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a human rights defender, activist, photographer, and international delegate of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) and the Yukpa Indigenous people. Since 2012, he has dedicated his work to the protection of Indigenous Peoples. He is also known for championing freedom of thought and new critical and decolonial epistemological approaches from the Global South. Juan Pablo has faced multiple threats from Colombian paramilitary groups for denouncing to national and international authorities the critical situation of Indigenous Peoples in Colombia. He escaped an attack in 2014 and now continues his fight for human rights from abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrédéric Hache\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e worked for twelve years in investment banking, selling, and structuring currency derivatives. After leaving banking in 2011, he then worked for six years as head of policy analysis at NGO Finance Watch, analyzing EU legislation linked to systemic risks and financial stability. He now heads the Belgian think tank Green Finance Observatory and lectures in sustainable finance at Science Po Paris. He also works as a freelance expert on sustainable finance and environmental markets while he undertakes a PhD in political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSutej Hugu \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a tribal activism mobilizer and sustainable self-determination organizer of Indigenous Taiwan. He works for the ICCA Consortium as the Regional Coordinator for East Asia and the de facto Facilitator of the Cross-Regional Networks of ICCAs (territories of life) in Austronesia Indian and Pacific Ocean. Hugu cofounded, and was elected as first Chairperson, of the Cultural Taiwan Consortium, a national NGO that works towards an integrated national identity by seeking connectedness to the land and nature. He is CEO of the Tao Foundation, championing a campaign to remove a nuclear waste repository. He assisted in launching the Taiwan Indigenous Conserved Territories Union (TICTU), which federates 748 tribal communities whose Indigenous territories almost entirely overlap with state protected areas and national forests. He cofounded, and is the Chief Advisor for, the Indigenous Taiwan Self-Determination Alliance, which promotes Indigenous decolonization and sustainable self-determination for a new nation-building movement in Taiwan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAshish Kothari \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a founding member of Kalpavriksh and is active in many grassroots movements. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration and coordinated the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for India. He has also been a part of the boards of Greenpeace International, its Indian office, and the ICCA Consortium. Today he helps coordinate Vikalp Sangam (www.vikalpsangam.org), Global Tapestry of Alternatives (www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org), and Radical Ecological Democracy (www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org). He is coauthor and coeditor of several books including \u003cem\u003eChurning the Earth, Alternative Futures, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokala Leeladhar (Leela)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Deva Chenchu living in the Nallamala Forest in what is now Amrabad Tiger Reserve, in Telangana state, India. He studied botany and zoology, beginning his career working as a tiger tracker and moving on to become a nature guide and wildlife conservationist. Along with safeguarding the forest, he works for the rights and well-being of his tribe. He has said, “Only Chenchus can protect the forest because they know everything about the forest. They feel the forest is their home. Chenchus think the tiger is our big brother. Chenchus all worship tigers and feel that the tiger is god. Where there is forest, there we are.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDelcasse Lukumbu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is an activist from Rutshuru Territory in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Married with three children, he graduated with a degree in rural administration. In order to fight the injustices of Congolese society, Delcasse has been involved with the LUCHA (Lutte pour le Changement) movement since 2017, which advocates for social justice and human rights. This fight doesn’t come without risks though, and Delcasse has been arrested several times. Most notably, he was imprisoned for six months following a peaceful protest demanding that the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) stop the forced and militarized demarcation of Virunga National Park and instead support participatory processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBhanumathi Kalluri \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(she\/her) is Director at Dhaatri Trust (www.dhaatri.org), an NGO based in India that works on the intersections of environment justice and women’s rights. Her work mainly involves facilitating collaborative work among women human rights defenders, particularly Indigenous women, to uphold their rights to their land, forests, and knowledge practices. Dhaatri works with the vision of strengthening the voices of women affected by development projects in India like forestry plantations, extractive schemes, national parks, climate-change mitigation programs, infrastructure-related displacement, and gendered violations. Dhaatri also coordinates a regional platform called WAMA (Women in Action on Mining in Asia, www.wamaalliance.org) that involves women human rights defenders challenging corporate violations and pursing state accountability mechanisms for the mining sector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadhuresh Kumar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the National Coordinator of the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and a research fellow in Resistance Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He writes regularly on people’s resistance while being involved in several national as well as international networks and processes around issues of democracy, development, and climate justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr. Madegowda C. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a Soliga social scientist and tribal rights activist from the BRT Tiger reserve in India. He has a PhD in social work and works for the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) as a Senior Research Associate and Coordinator. He is also Secretary of a Soliga community organization. He has twenty-four years of experience working with Indigenous people and biodiversity conservation. He was involved in securing the Soliga’s community forest rights—the Soliga were the first Indigenous people living in an Indian tiger reserve to have these rights recognized, setting an important precedent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirendra Mahato\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder and chair of the Tharu Cultural Museum and Research Center (the first community museum in Nepal) and Community Conservation Nepal, which is working to empower local people for sustainable conservation. Since 2003 Mahato has defended the human rights of Indigenous Peoples suffering at the hands of fortress conservation in Nepal, pushing for their rights to be recognized. He has worked to stop the abuse of Tharu and other Indigenous Peoples in Chitwan National Park and to bring national and international attention to the abuses happening there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobert E. Moïse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a cultural anthropologist who has worked in the forests of the Congo Basin since the 1980s and has spent over five years on the ground doing research with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Since 2010, he has worked as a consultant for NGOs and governments on issues of conservation and development among local forest communities, including their relations with Protected Areas and Community Forest initiatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLlanquiray Painemal Morales\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, Mapuche (with a Chilean passport), is originally from the Coiwe-Ramón Painemal community in Gulumapu (today Chile). Active in the Mapuche movement since her youth, today she resides in Berlin and from there works in solidarity with Mapuche communities and Mapuche political prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlaise Mudodosi Muhigwa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lawyer and environmental jurist in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is also a national expert on forest rights and REDD+ safeguard issues. He is one of the cofounders and coordinators of the NGO Actions pour la Promotion et Protection des Peuples et Espèces Menacés (APEM). The organization works on voluntary independent monitoring and observation of REDD+ programs and projects. It also focuses on nature conservation, community forestry, mapping, and collaborative land-use planning. Legal assistance to victims of human rights violations related to natural resources, as well as advocacy for the socioeconomic rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples, is an important part of his fieldwork. Mudodosi Muhigwa has worked in collaboration with several national organizations and platforms (APED, AFRICAPACITY, RRN, and APEM) and is also active at the international level with the WWF, the Rainforest Foundation UK, Global Witness, and the Forest Peoples Programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMordecai Ogada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is an ecologist studying carnivores and a conservation scholar who has been involved in conservation policy and practice for the last eighteen years in Kenya and other parts of Africa. His main focus is human-wildlife conflict mitigation and carnivore conservation. Over the last three years, Mordecai has examined the policy problems and prejudices that underlie the challenges experienced in wildlife conservation, particularly in the Global South. These issues form the central theme of \u003cem\u003eThe Big Conservation Lie\u003c\/em\u003e, a book focused on Kenya coauthored with John Mbaria. He is currently the Executive Director of Conservation Solutions Afrika, a natural-resource management consultancy based in Nanyuki. Dr. Ogada consults for Survival International on the impact of conservation practice on the lives and rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly in Africa. His website is www.ogada.co.ke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaneyulime Pilisi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Kalin’a woman from the Guianas, a writer, and a former interpreter of the Kalin’a and Sranan Tongo languages. She is the copresident of the Aw Kae collective for the preservation and development of Kalin’a culture and arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeborah S. Rogers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e has committed her life to environmental justice, Indigenous rights, and socioeconomic equality. Over the years she has worked with Indigenous-led initiatives including the Black Hills Alliance, the Cowboy \u0026amp; Indian Alliance, Women of All Red Nations, and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She coordinated the Walking Forward Lakota health disparities project and taught at Oglala Lakota College. For the past ten years she has directed Initiative for Equality (IfE), a global network of activists working on issues related to social, economic, and political inequality. She currently serves as Coordinatrice Internationale for Réseau Initiative for Equality (RIFE), a regional network of eighteen Indigenous rights organizations in Burundi, Rwanda, and the DR Congo. In this capacity, she has written reports on genocidal attacks, has made presentations at the United Nations, and has helped with two significant lawsuits to defend Indigenous rights at Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern DR Congo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKipchumba Rotich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a member of the Sengwer Indigenous Peoples of Cherangani Hills, Kenya. For the last three years he has been working for the recognition of his community’s land rights. Currently, Kipchumba volunteers as an ICT Officer and Assistant to the Executive Director of their local organization. Kipchumba draws his motivation from the desire for justice for his people in securing their land tenure rights in Embobut Forest. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Technology from the University of Eldoret and is currently pursuing a law degree at Moi University. Kipchumba has represented his community in different forums both local and international. He is a strong advocate of Indigenous-led conservation models and strongly opposes the “fortress conservation” system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMekozi Rufin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a member of the Baka tribe in the Republic of Congo. For years he has been speaking out against human rights abuses and defending the Baka’s rights to their forest, especially in the proposed Messok Dja protected area (a WWF project) and in Odzala-Kokoua National Park (an African Parks project). He has been instrumental in bringing these abuses to international attention. He is also the founder of a local organization called Groupement des Autochtones de Sembe (GAS), supporting Baka families to clear fields and plant manioc. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchana Soreng\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e belongs to the Khadia Tribe from India. She is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. She is experienced in advocacy and research on the rights of Indigenous and local communities and climate action. She has been working to document, preserve, and promote the traditional knowledge and cultural practices of Indigenous communities. She has pursued a master’s in Regulatory Governance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJ. K. Thimma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a shaman and a leader within the Jenu Kuruba tribe, living in the forest that is now the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve and National Park. For more than thirty years he has fought against efforts to evict his community in the name of conservation and has been a driving force in the Jenu Kuruba’s campaign to have their rights to live in their forest recognized. He is a vocal critic of colonial conservation and the creation of Protected Areas without consent. He is calling for the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve to close and for the forest to be handed back to the Jenu Kuruba, stating, “We can take care of the tigers and the forest better.” His battle for the rights of his people has resulted in years of harassment and threats, including numerous false criminal cases being filed against him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn Vidal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist and has reported from over one hundred countries. He was environment editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003efrom 1989 to 2016 and has written on conservation and the environment for most mainstream Western newspapers. The author of \u003cem\u003eMcLibel: Burger Culture on Trial\u003c\/em\u003e, he is presently writing a book on how we are creating the conditions for diseases like Covid-19 to emerge and spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEsther Wah \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis an Indigenous Karen woman from Dawei, Tanintharyi Region, in southern Myanmar. She has been working with environmental civil society groups since 2014, campaigning to save Karen ancestral territories from the impacts of mining, environmental destruction, and agribusiness concessions. She also coordinates an alliance of Indigenous Karen community organizations called CAT (Conservation Alliance of Tanintharyi). Together, they campaign against top-down conservation projects that dispossess Karen people from their lands and forest and promote Indigenous land and forest management practices. She is an honorary member of the ICCA Consortium, and coordinates ICCA NEWS (Indigenous Community Conserved Areas North East West and South), a news network involving Indigenous organizations across Myanmar, working on advocacy and promoting Indigenous Community Conserved Areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLottie Cunningham Wren\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lawyer for the Miskito Indigenous people. For more than twenty years she has been defending the land rights and natural resources of the Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of Nicaragua. She is the founder of the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN). In 2020, she received recognition from the Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorberto Altamirano Zárate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Binniza (Zapotec) community advocate from the Indigenous community of Union Hidalgo, Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eDecolonize Conservation\u003c\/em\u003e shares stories of how colonial conservation has become an instrument of dispossession of Indigenous people. Colonization is based on ecological apartheid, the separation of humans from nature and an illusion of superiority of the colonizer over nature and nature-centered ecological cultures. Colonial conservation defines ‘nature‘ and the ‘wild‘ as the absence of humans, and violently removes Indigenous communities from their homes in the name of ‘conservation’. The reality is that 80 percent of the biodiversity of the planet is conserved on 20 percent of the land which remain in the care of Indigenous people. As the editors and contributors of this book urgently remind us, it is time to decolonize conservation, to recognize the rights of Indigenous people and their sophisticated sciences of conservation and sustainable use, and to prevent the ongoing wave of colonizations of nature and biodiversity through financialisation.” —\u003cstrong\u003eVandana Shiva\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eEarth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTerra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Decolonize Conservation \u003c\/em\u003ereveals the hidden but rampant current of dispossession and displacement suffered by Indigenous communities across the world. Between the lines, we pick up the unspoken origins of colonial conservation as the consolidation of conquest and as a false mode of atonement by exploitative forces for rapacious colonial exploitation that now threatens the planet. We also see undercurrents of ecological racism. \u003cem\u003eDecolonize Conservation\u003c\/em\u003e is a great offering at a time of planetary distress and is a call for liberation as well as a demand to urgently abrogate the notion that humans can cordon off and \u003cem\u003eown\u003c\/em\u003e territories on this speck in the Milky Way.” —\u003cstrong\u003eNnimmo Bassey\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTo Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Mainstream conservation, including its most recent ‘30x30’ incarnation, is part of the problem, not the solution. The diverse voices collected in this hard-hitting, important volume show the way in moving beyond ineffective, violent, and colonial forms of ‘protecting’ nature, towards new forms of conservation centered on care for biodiversity and respect for Indigenous wisdoms.”—\u003cstrong\u003eBram Büscher\u003c\/strong\u003e, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDecolonize Conservation\u003c\/em\u003eis a groundbreaking book that foregrounds Indigenous voices, ideas, and practices in a searing critique of business-as-usual environmental conservation. Simultaneously it shows how the complex kinships, relations, and exchanges between peoples and their surroundings globally have historically created—and can create in the future—conditions for systems and species to flourish. Beautifully written, \u003cem\u003eDecolonize Conservation\u003c\/em\u003e is a must read for everyone who cares about our socioecological future.\" —\u003cstrong\u003ePaige West\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eDispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"If you've ever suspected that clever advertising has duped you into supporting dubious 'conservation' initiatives that ultimately lead to the eviction of Indigenous peoples—to the great detriment of the ecosystems they helped to sustain—then read this book! These essays by Indigenous activists and their allies provide a vitally important corrective to the false environmental 'solutions' that are being peddled by many Big Green organizations.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eAmitav Gosh\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable \u003c\/em\u003eand The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Decolonize Conservation \u003c\/em\u003efunctions as a spur to thought, a call to action, and a challenge to conservation strategies that are not only colonial in origin, but have failed to shed their neo-coloniality. The contributors—who represent Indigenous communities and allies from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America—document how the urgency of combatting climate change is empowering some of the most pernicious, exclusionary features of large, global conservation organizations. If the original sin of mainline conservation was its essential coloniality, its current practice, including in pursuit of ‘30x30’ goals, utilizes the states of exception associated with structural and physical violence that have constructed fortress conservation models and the securitization and financialization of conservation endeavours. These models foreclose possibilities of coexistence, and short-circuit the deployment of the kinds of indigenous knowledge and practice articulated in this collection of essays, which is what makes these voices and the struggles they represent and document so urgent and necessary. This volume centers Indigeneity as a compelling thread to knot together stories of flawed conservation work and calls for the infusion of conservation practice with justice and alternative forms of knowledge and claims to belonging.” —\u003cstrong\u003eJeff Schauer,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eWildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Ashley Dawson's previous work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Ashley Dawson’s slim and forceful book … makes a case for being the most accessible and politically engaged examination of the current mass extinction … a welcome contribution to the growing literature on this slow-motion calamity.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Yale University, in the Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Dawson's searing report on species loss will sober up anyone who has drunk the Kool-Aid of green capitalism. For a bonus, readers will learn a lot from his far-sighted, prehistoric survey of extinction.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Dawson has summed up the threat to our fellow species on Earth with clarity, urgency and the finest reasoning available within the environmental justice literature. He explains how capital's appropriation of nature cannot be 'offset,' nor solutions found in financialization. Fusing social and ecological challenges to power is the only way forward, and here is a long-awaited, elegant and comprehensive expression of why the time is right to make these links.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Patrick Bond, Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and author of Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A succinct and moving account of the co-evolution of capitalism, imperialism, and climate change. Dawson demonstrates not only how capitalism created climate change but also why the former must be challenged in order to halt the latter. Offering not only critique but also solutions, this rousing book is a great tool for anti-capitalists, climate change activists, and those still making sense of the intrinsic connections between the two.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, author of Terrorist Assemblages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Historically grounded, densely researched, fluidly written, Ashley Dawson’s book on extinction is a powerful and painful exploration of human civilization's environmental irrationalities. Yet Dawson does not see annihilation as inevitable and he even points towards an alternate path.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“An elegant, controversial thesis” \u003cstrong\u003e—The Guardian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“For anyone wanting to understand what comes after oil and how we might get there.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Imre Szeman, author of On Petrocultures\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A gift to activists, providing a clear and accessible history of energy as well as a vision towards the publicly owned, democratically controlled, 100% renewable world we need.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Aaron Eisenberg, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A brilliant guide to building collective, equitable, and radical energy democracies in the here and now.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Lavinia Steinfort, Transnational Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Books on climate change are a dime a dozen now, but few, if any, truly reckon with the potential scale of the disasters that await. Dawson reveals the inadequacies of current plans to deal with the problems that cities around the world will face. Forget such buzzwords as ‘green cities,’ ‘resilience,’ and ‘sustainable development’—the age of ‘disaster communism’ is here.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly(“Best Books 2017”—Top 10)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eExtreme Citiesis a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear, and as this fine book reveals anew, the massive shifts on our earth increasingly lay bare the social inequalities that fracture our civilization.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“The way we design and live in cities will determine humanity’s ability to avoid an anthropogenic mass extinction event in the coming century. Dawson makes this vividly clear in Extreme Cities, laying out in detail the nature of the problem and some possible positive actions we can take. Crucial to his argument is the fact that technological solutions will not be enough, so that we need to drastically reform the capitalist economic system to properly price and value the biosphere and human lives. His point that social justice is now a necessary survival strategy makes this not just a meticulous history and analysis of our situation, but also an exciting call to action.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Red \u003ca title=\"Mars Trilogy\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mars-trilogy\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijk1NzIifQ==\"\u003eMars Trilogy\u003c\/a\u003e and New York 2140\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Cities both in the North and the South are already suffering the effects of climate change. Government and business fitfully recognize and respond, but in ways that reinforce existing injustices and as often as not make things worse. Dawson shows how social movements have combined action on disaster relief with forms of equitable common life to produce models for radical adaptation from which we can all learn. This is a brilloant summation of what we know and what we can do build a new kind of city in the ruins of the old.”\u003cstrong\u003e—McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A powerful argument in a dire situation: that we revise our cities to the new game changer, or climate change will revise urban existences as we know it.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, director-general of Bengal Institute of Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A sophisticated and provocative exploration of the unfolding impact of climate change on urban environments.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Christoph Lindner, Professor of Urban Theory and Visual Culture, University of Oregon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A revelatory confrontation between two forms of 'surplus liquidity': the rent-seeking excess of circulating global capital and the more literal liquidity of the rising tides of climate change. The setting is the city and this meticulously researched and argued book probes the nexus of myopia, greed, environmental disaster—and hope—that has placed the urban habitat of billions of us in extremis.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A sobering account of how planetary urbanization has put us on a collision course with the natural world.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Jonathan Hahn, Sierra Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A must-read for everyone who wants to understand the politics of climate change in an increasingly urban planet, and to explore the possibilities for radical change beyond all technological fixes and governmental adjustments that only reproduce the system as it is.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Marco Armiero, director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A superb essay of political ecology, Extreme Citiesdemonstrates that there is nothing more depending on nature than the city, offering both a diagnosis and a possible therapy for one of the greatest challenges of our time.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Serenella Iovino, editor of Material Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Extreme Cities takes the critical long view to challenge city decision-makers to deal seriously with the clash of business-as-usual development, threats from climate change, and persistent social inequality to develop real transformations to drive cities toward sustainability and resilience.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Timon McPhearson, Director, Urban Systems Lab at The New School, New York City\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“With the majority of humanity located in cities, it behooves us to consider urban ecologies as recent and future sites of non-natural disasters as well as inspiring places of collective resilience and struggles for justice. Dawson’s book is a guiding light.”\u003cstrong\u003e—T.J. Demos, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“The definitive study of an urban—and planetary—system pushed to the breaking point. Extreme Citiespaints a terrifying, but also hopeful, picture, weaving together accounts of iron-fisted states, greedy real estate developers, and the communities that challenge their rule.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A profoundly sobering picture of climate change’s uneven urban toll, both across global expanses and within particular neighborhoods, while also spotlighting instances of radical, on-the-ground resistance to such trends.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Emily Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zuric and co-editor of Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Dawson makes a convincing case that, unless urban dwellers and civic leaders engage in a fundamental reconceptualization of the city and whom it serves, the future of urban life is dim.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Publishers Weekly(starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A substantive contribution to the growing dialogue about our response—or lack thereof—to climate change.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Kirkus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Dawson is well attuned to the ways that upheavals and disasters disproportionately affect the socioeconomically disadvantaged. As Donald Trump continues to roll back protection measures and disavow the US’s role in global cooperation to mitigate the effects of climate change, [Extreme Cities] is a clear-eyed reminder of who, and what, will be left most vulnerable as a result.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Fast Company\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Extreme Citiesis an angry book—as it should be … Ashley Dawson outlines the existential dilemma facing coastal cities, and the refusal of various powerbrokers to acknowledge that reality, in bold and frequently horrifying terms.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Barsanti, Rain Taxi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Invoking terms such as ‘climate apartheid,’ he greatly expands what people traditionally think of as relevant climate policy language. Recognizing that climate change mitigation and adaptation are interwoven with—and exacerbated by—social inequities and other problems plaguing modern cities is sobering, but this realization provides hope that humanity can move toward greater resilience to environmental problems by addressing non-climatic factors that will improve cities in the presence or absence of climate change.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Extreme Citiestakes on the needed work of slowing down to chronicle and consider this meantime, without shying away from its messiness … More than simply lay out the existence of disparities, it illuminates the relationship between them.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Liz Koslov, Public Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“[Ashley Dawson] cuts through the green capitalist hype and shows instead that life under climate change has grown increasingly precarious for working-class people living in major urban centers in the twenty-first century … A sweeping narrative that ties together disparate calamities.”—\u003cstrong\u003eZachary Alexis, International Socialist Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"page-divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40981994143837,"sku":"9781942173762","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173762_FC.jpg?v=1679612015"},{"product_id":"journal-of-a-black-queer-nurse","title":"Journal of a Black Queer Nurse","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eIn this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Can I have a white nurse?” the patient asked Britney Daniels.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Sorry ma'am,” Britney replied, “we are fresh out of white nurses.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBritney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began \u003cem\u003eJournal of a Black Queer Nurse\u003c\/em\u003e as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether it is giving one’s own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one’s own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies as the morgues overflowed during the pandemic, \u003cem\u003eJournal of a Black Queer Nurse\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care—care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense—demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBritney Daniels,\u003c\/strong\u003e RN, MSN is a Black queer travel nurse and social advocate who has worked in hospital emergency rooms all over the US. Daniels holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing with a concentration in nursing leadership. She is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree. Britney lives in Chicago with her wife, Saria, and their two dogs, Batman and Momo. This is her first book.\n\n\u003ch5 class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Britney Daniels' voice is one of the most important you will hear all year. This book is not only a testament to the resilience of our nation's hardest-working lifesavers but also a reminder of the essentiality of centering Black queer voices in our national discourse. Britney's greatest gift is the reminder that positivity, perseverance, empathy, and compassion always prevail over the forces that try to divide and oppress, and that love is the universal truth that will lead each of us to find happiness.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Blacklow\u003c\/strong\u003e, former Director of Entertainment, GLAAD \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eJournal of a Black Queer Nurse\u003c\/em\u003e reminds readers of the importance of centering the voices of Black women, and specifically those of Black queer women, as we share stories about the challenges we must work together to overcome. Equal parts personal narrative and sharing stories about the medical-industrial complex, Britney’s work highlights the power of love, the importance of inclusion, and the opportunities each of us has to interrogate and push past limiting, socially constructed boundaries that are designed to prevent us from bearing witness, finding comfort in who we are and how we move through the world, and telling our stories. I’m thankful for this offering and for Britney’s sharing of her gifts.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Dr. David J. Johns, Executive Director, National Black Justice Coalition\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“There is no doubt that \u003cem\u003eJournal of A Black Queer Nurse\u003c\/em\u003e is timely on at least two fronts: reflecting on the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare profession, while illuminating the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality on a healthcare professional. However, this book is not only of import to nurses or to queer people because it so wonderfully explores a most universal story of what it is to be human in unprecedented times.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Sharon L. Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePrologue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter One: Where I Began\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Two: Stepping Out \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Three: Not Too Far \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Four: White Supremacy and Palm Trees \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Five: “Can I Have a White Nurse?” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Six: Million-Dollar Dilapidation \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Seven: “She’s Not Crazy” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Eight: “Is That a Roach?” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Nine: The Reaper \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eChapter Ten: “I Freed the Slaves” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eEXCERPT\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Details of the stories shared in this book have been altered to protect the privacy of patients, families, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePROLOGUE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack girl.\u003c\/em\u003e That's what my classmates called me in elementary school. In fact, it was all they called me. I heard it on the playground, in the classroom, and when we sat in our afternoon reading circle. I knew it wasn't my name, but there was no escaping that that was who I was to them. After all, I was the only child of color in my class. The school had decided to place my twin sister in another room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIt hadn’t been an easy life so far. My twin sister and I were born very premature. We had one older sister, seven years ahead of us. Our biological parents separated early on. My dad traveled the world during his thirty-two-year career in the Army, so my mom was our primary caregiver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eOur mother had moved us to a predominantly white suburb because she wanted us to have access to better education. Before moving to the suburbs, we grew up on the South Side of Chicago, and we were only allowed to play outside in the fenced-in backyard; we were not allowed on the front porch without an adult. In my mother’s mind, getting the same schooling as the white kids would provide my sisters and me with more and better opportunities—more than she had ever had, anyway. But there were sacrifices to be made. Living here meant sleeping on mattresses stacked atop milk crates. It meant hot dogs and pork and beans, meal after meal. It meant that gassing up our van and driving to the South Side of Chicago to see our family would qualify as a “vacation.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eI can vividly remember how desperately—even back then—I wanted to escape and see the rest of the country. As I grew into a young adult, that desire only became stronger, and it expanded to include the rest of the world. So, in 2016, when I found myself tightly gripping my pen, desperately taking notes under the fluorescent classroom lights as I listened to the guest speaker talk about her experiences as a travel nurse, I knew instantly that this was the life for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIndeed, I had never been so sure of anything. And though I had never traveled more than a few miles from home, I knew that somewhere out there were palm trees I wanted to touch, mountains I wanted to see, and crisp ocean water I wanted to feel. What I didn't see was that something else was waiting for me out in the unknown. It was something much darker—something that I couldn't touch, see or feel. It was something that would challenge my very existence, let alone my choice of profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eOppression, after all, isn't tangible. It isn't something you can see when you walk into a room. Still, it followed me everywhere I went, like a stalker watching my every move. If I really tried, I could hear it whisper, \"black girl.\" Was I nervous about embarking on my journey? Absolutely. Could I have predicted that a deadly pandemic would soon exacerbate and intensify all of the difficulties I faced? Not at all. Was I intimidated enough to give up? \u003cem\u003eHell no\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn my short career as an emergency room nurse, I have experienced some of the most remarkable and challenging moments of my life, like the woman being chased by the cartel who needed help finding her dogs, but the doctors didn’t believe her. I believed her. I’ll tell you all about her later. Or, like all the times I was boldly called a “nigger” by patients. They've been the kind of moments that cry out to be shared—to be learned from. So, I've endeavored to do just that through this journal. The project started off as a way for me to take notes on important information to prevent mistakes. I’d jot my notes down in a little faux-leather-covered notebook, small enough to fit in the side pocket of my navy-blue water-resistant cargo scrubs. But over time, I found that my entries wouldn't confine themselves to technical information. Over time, my writing gravitated towards those experiences that left me with strong emotions. Years later, I realized that these stories, or at least a variation of them, needed to be shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eI remember how when I was little, my grandmother would sit all of us kids down and ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up. She tells me that my answer was always the same. I would throw my hands in the air and exclaim, “I just want to be Britney!” And so I have filled this book with experiences that I have witnessed in my years of being, well, Britney. This is the story of a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian and her head-first crusade into the nursing world, the COVID-19 pandemic, and oppression. It’s a story about integrity, perseverance, and triumph. For me, triumph for a Black, queer, working-class nurse reveals itself in the form of being able to confidently and fearlessly advocate for those who cannot advocate for themselves. Daily, I arm myself with more knowledge so that I can provide the most effective and intentional care for the people that are relying on us. I—\u003cem\u003ewe\u003c\/em\u003e—refuse to be silenced, devalued, or disregarded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eStill, the story is not really about me, per se. It's about all of us. I want the patients I've helped to know they are seen, loved, and understood. I want medical professionals I've worked with to reflect on the care they provide to people every day and to want to do better. I want everyone who has ever cared about anyone to know that they matter, and that their existence is recognized and valued.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is not a book for nurses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is a book for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThis is a book for you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40997416763485,"sku":"9781942173779","price":23.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173779_FC.jpg?v=1680628296"},{"product_id":"new-york-liberation-school-study-and-movement-for-the-people-s-university","title":"New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the 1960s and ’70s—when Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, David Henderson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Guillermo Morales, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur all studied and taught at CUNY—New York City’s classrooms and streets radiated as epicenters of Black, Puerto Rican, queer, and women’s liberation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eConor Tomás Reed is part of the next generation of insurgent CUNY thinkers nourished by these legacies. Highlighting the decolonial feminist metamorphosis that transformed our educational landscape, \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e explores how study and movement coalesced across classrooms and neighborhoods. Reed’s immersive and wide-ranging narrative brings us into the archives and up close to the stories of its main participants in order to reactivate these vibrant histories. The result is a radiant reclamation of collective history that charts a vision for liberating education and society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed \u003c\/strong\u003eis a Puerto Rican\/Irish gender-fluid scholar-organizer of radical cultural movements at the City University of New York. Conor is codeveloping the quadrilingual anthology \u003cem\u003eBlack Feminist Studies in the Americas and the Caribbean\u003c\/em\u003e, and is the current comanaging editor of \u003cem\u003eLÁPIZ Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and a contributing editor of \u003cem\u003eLost \u0026amp; Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. \u003c\/em\u003eConor is a cofounding participant in Free CUNY, Rank and File Action, and Reclaim the Commons, and a member of CUNY for Abortion Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“City University of New York has a very long history of making revolutionaries. It was a magnet for students and some faculty who recognized the indivisibility of the campus and the street, study and struggle. \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e turns to CUNY’s insurgent history to offer lessons for how we might remake higher education and the world.”—\u003cstrong\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“This exciting telling of the City University of New York's radical history inspires us to imagine its future. Despite endless givebacks by administration and pushbacks from the state, CUNY professors and students contribute to and are influenced by the larger popular movements at home and around the world. By centering such crucial professors as Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Tony Cade Bambara; and students like  Samuel Delaney, Assatta Shakur; and many grassroots activists in movements from Puerto Rican Independence to Palestine Liberation; Conor Tomás Reed makes record of what a university for poor and working-class people can give to the world. \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e is a necessary study that enriches our understanding and imagining.”—\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Schulman\u003c\/strong\u003e, former CUNY student and faculty and author of \u003cem\u003eLet the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e recovers the political organizing led by coalitions of students and educators to decolonize CUNY, the heart of NYC public education. Moving seamlessly between campus and streets, and foregrounding CUNY leaders like June Jordan and Audre Lorde, this book offers a rich archive of radical experimentation, creativity, and institution-building to a new generation fighting for justice.”—\u003cstrong\u003eRobyn C. Spencer\u003c\/strong\u003e, professor of history at Lehman College, CUNY, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Conor Tomás Reed has gifted us with words that narrate the meaning of struggle of and for the university. Ranging from early twentieth movements around the university and militarism, to student and faculty struggles for Black and Puerto Rican Studies, to the most recent assaults against the neoliberal turn and Occupy, the story of the many reimaginations of City College, New York are not only a reminder of what the people’s university might be, this book arranges itself as a demand for what it must be. This is a book for students and organizers, for committed scholars, and for our surrounding communities. Reed shows us that these are the people who must determine the future of these spaces. This book listens to the past for instruction, for these forebears have much to offer. We must thank Reed for allowing their voices space to be heard again. Now our choices for the future, the future of the university, will be conscious ones.”—\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eOf Black Study\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\"If you don't want to join CUNY in heart and mind after reading this book, check your pulse. The university re-visioned here as a site of coalitional struggle is, simultaneously, our world in the act of being re-made. To use the author's metaphor, \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e is a boomerang. Hold on tight to this living history.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Brim\u003c\/strong\u003e, professor of queer studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and author of \u003cem\u003ePoor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An electrifying account of social ferment and educational experimentation. Reed constructs a living archive of the campus and street insurgencies that aimed to fulfill the democratic promise of a people’s university. From antiracist, feminist, and queer student mobilizations to the emancipatory pedagogies of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, and Adrienne Rich, \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the visions of City College radicals who strove to democratize both the production of knowledge and the organization of society. In the age of neoliberal education, we desperately need this history of grassroots efforts to revolutionize learning. \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e is a gift to current and future campus rebels who wish to resist conformity and corporatization, reconstruct social relations, and reimagine what it means to be human.”—\u003cstrong\u003eRussell Rickford\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Reed delivers an excellent guidebook for resisting the university from within. This is a story about how we create, with each other, the new worlds we seek; how we write, discuss, teach, and dream collectively in the service of our liberation. By sitting with the groundbreaking written work of intellectuals, cultural workers, students, and activists, and contextualizing it within the movements and political struggles that they were engaged in, Reed illustrates how the production of community organizing and artistic compositions go hand-in-hand to fuel the creation of new social and political possibilities. A must-read for those inside the academy, disillusioned with its limitations, as well as those outside of the academy, curious about its possibilities. Reed makes clear that a learning process occurs through political struggle and that it can transform people, communities, and institutions.”—\u003cstrong\u003eAmaka Okechukwu\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTo Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“If you want to make a more liberatory university, city, and world, you need to read this book! \u003cem\u003eNew York Liberation School\u003c\/em\u003e dives into the oceanic depths of social upheaval at CUNY, inviting us to ride the waves of struggles with intersecting movements that rippled across generations and between the campus and wider city. Rather than abandoning the university as a site of power, students and educators built coalitional power to transform the institution while grappling with counter-insurgencies and recomposing themselves.”—\u003cstrong\u003eEli Meyerhoff\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBeyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“This is a book about the City University of New York, which is to say that it is about the students and the streets of the city writ large; it is a book about struggles for Black Studies, which is to say, as June Jordan does, ‘Life Studies’; it is a book about poetry, which is to say that it is about collective dreaming: ‘To realize this dream, a Black University required a physical space of becoming.’ Reed engages in powerful world-building here—mapping experiments, new classes and pedagogies, the development of counter-institutions within the university, and the ways in which each and everyone who participated evolved in their thinking, being, and connecting with others along the way. What renders this mapping an impressive act of counter-cartography is how Reed accomplishes this through lecture notes, syllabi, student newsletters, poems, interviews, and communiqués, rather than the history publicized by those in power. This book has profound implications for activists pondering movement strategy and struggling with questions of legitimation, co-optation, and repression, for those of us thinking about liberatory practices and spaces for learning in universities, and for all of us engaged in the work of building meaningful solidarities. It is a galvanizing joy.”  —\u003cstrong\u003eCelina Su\u003c\/strong\u003e, professor of urban studies and political science at the City University of New York, and author of \u003cem\u003eLandia \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eBy Fall 1970, when the CUNY Board of Higher Education accelerated and expanded the admissions demand for the creation of “Open Admissions,” Jordan converted these conditions into an immensely fruitful period of creativity. Not only did she travel all over the New York area to speak to a wide range of audiences; she also went to Mississippi to research voting rights and land reform with activist Fannie Lou Hamer and writer Alice Walker, and visited Rome as the winner of the Prix de Rome in environmental design. Jordan also wrote a young adult novel in Black vernacular English, \u003cem\u003eHis Own Where\u003c\/em\u003e, and published \u003cem\u003esoulscript\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of African American poetry featuring the work of some of her students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eJordan’s innovative public writings made specific demands on anti-poverty legislation, neighborhood safety, language apartheid in schooling, the limits of respectability politics, and beyond. Together with her colleagues and students, she worked to convey the possibilities of opening up Life Studies to entire cities. The SEEK practice of publishing popular anthologies of poetry and prose—featuring CUNY faculty and student writing—allowed people to access their work nationwide in a democratizing exchange of educational resources.This Black feminist effort to slowly decolonize the publishing industry’s materials was a complex process that sometimes also saw the elision of class distinctions across lines of race and gender, causing some writers who didn’t fit the new paradigms to fall through the cracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eMeanwhile, the struggle in CUNY to maintain Open Admissions and establish a form of community control that could account for Bambara’s “Black University,” Henderson’s “Black City,” and Jordan’s “Life Studies” intensified and continued, despite considerable backlash. From 1970 onwards, conservative CUNY faculty and mainstream media crafted a racist elitist discourse on “The Death of the University”—in which Open Admissions allegedly only benefited poor Black and Puerto Rican students, and thus CUNY’s standards were in a downward spiral—which detracted attention away from the deep retrenchment of fewer resources for larger classes. As Jordan understood from her housing advocacy days, the long-practiced urban policy of maintaining overcrowded and under-resourced slums in the Bronx, Harlem, Lower East Side, and other impoverished areas became a model for forcibly overcrowding and underfunding CUNY after Open Admissions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eOn a daily interpersonal level, the impact of these policies exhausted teachers, students, and staff at City College, even as they became nationally recognized as a site of transformative admissions and writing pedagogies. Nevertheless, these colleagues tenderly looked after each other, their families, and their related creative projects. For example, after receiving Audre Lorde’s 1971 poem “Dear Toni Instead of a Letter of Congratulations Upon Your Book and Your Daughter Whom You Are Raising To Be A Correct Little Sister” which recounts their time at City College together, Bambara’s response still beams from the archives. She writes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003etryin to think of a really balanced way to say thank you for the stunning poem… I mean stunning. So just wow, Audre, it’s a fantastic poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eAnd in a November 1973 letter from Jordan to Lorde, after reading her friend’s poem “Movement Song,” she writes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eI have to report that I am spending these days... in the cleaning of my house, and myself, I guess; trying to get ready for winter—a rotten winter like the one last year, when I ran out of everything— food, health—but this time I figure I'd better get the novel written—hell or high water, and then move on. So I am mostly calm, during the day. And gesturing closer and closer to my real work. Maybe god has intervened—to stop all this \"teaching\" stuff and \"travelling\" stuff so I can\/must concentrate on the dream unwritten still, and still a longing for the people of my heart. You keep well, please, and keep in touch, and keep the poem alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eAfter a few years of teaching stints at Connecticut College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yale University, Jordan returned to City College in 1975. At this moment, university austerity measures became a national issue by the end of the war in Vietnam and the imposition of domestic structural readjustment that, in New York City, took on the form of a fiscal crisis that demanded an end to free higher education via the imposition of tuition for all CUNY students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn a May 5, 1976, City University of New York board hearing to impose universal tuition for the first time in its 129-year history, Jordan expressed outrage as one of thirteen City College professors on hunger strike to demand that CUNY remain free. Applying her arguments from a decade earlier in “Brief History of the Lower East Side” and “The Determining Slum,” she lauds CUNY’s historic access to poor European immigrant students, but notes that once Black and Puerto Rican students began to enter the university in larger numbers, free education was suddenly imperiled. Jordan frames the imposition of tuition in the terms of survival, in which, implicitly, Life Studies is endangered. She warns that ending free tuition and, therefore, truly Open Admissions would bear grave consequences for the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWe cannot accept the death of this great, free University because we cannot accept the death of the spirit, the death of aspirations, the death of the future, that will surely follow for our children, the students… We will fast. We will take a cut in salary. We will fight. The possibility that we may lose is not a possibility: we have to win… We speak on behalf of our children, and our students; we call upon all of the people of the City of New York to join with us on behalf of all the children and all of the students of the City of New York, to resist this death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eA wildcat strike committee formed within Jordan’s union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), urging workers to reject tuition costs alongside an austerity job contract that the PSC leadership argued was the best it could do. As these union organizers feared, the Fall 1976 tuition policy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003ecoincided with almost 5,000 layoffs of faculty and staff (many of whom had helped to usher in Open Admissions, including all adjuncts), the erasure of recently won ethnic studies classes, and threats to close new CUNY colleges like Hostos and Medgar Evers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eJordan herself would be laid off from City College for one semester, and then return for a final year to mentor and teach poetry to future luminous writers like Sekou Sundiata. Even in this tumultuous period, Jordan nurtured living room with her students to create “useful, that is, the usable, criticism of poems” towards communal goals of creative expression. In contrast, these aggressive economic structural readjustments would pave the way for a significant reversal of 1960s-70s social movements’ aspirations. The subsequent “retrenchment period” at CUNY resulted in massive city and state budget cuts, skyrocketing tuition fees, and expanded adjunct faculty ratios whose exploitation was enshrined by multiple PSC-CUNY contract agreements. CUNY and New York City suffered economic shock therapy that would soon bend the nation’s cities and colleges towards privatization and sharpened inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41023319212125,"sku":"9781942173687","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/newyorkliberationschool9781942173687_FC.jpg?v=1682889935"},{"product_id":"sana-sana-latinx-pain-and-radical-visions-for-healing-and-justice","title":"Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice","description":"\u003cem\u003eSana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but for Queer BIPOC communities and, ultimately, for all people. \n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s vision and understanding of Latinidad is broad and expansive. It centers Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Latinidades. By advancing an unapologetically radical antiracist, anticapitalist, feminist, and queer politic \u003cem\u003eSana Sana\u003c\/em\u003e holds creative and defiant space for identifying economic, social, political, emotional, and spiritual strategies to forge individual and collective healing and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Praise forever to the warrior healers who transform the world by opening their hearts. This anthology models the self-compassion that we need to live as our complex evolving selves. These writers are now my teachers forever. May we understand our healing as creation, reclamation, and multi-generational love. This book is here to bless you in all directions.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/strong\u003e, PhD, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUndrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDub: Finding Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“With Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, editors David Luis Glisch-Sanchez and Nic Rodriguez Villafane have ushered forth a timely, biting anthology of Latinx perspectives on contemporary social and historical culture; as the social and the historical are framed by settler colonialism, capitalism, the violence of individual and collective trauma, antihuman phobias and other structures of dominance. The question raised here, grounded in Latinx, feminist and queer thought, in the idea that ‘healing requires witness,’ is, simply put, how can those of us who have been harmed intergenerationally and across worlds, across time, create and define what we mean by reparation(s). \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e arrives at a critical moment in twenty-first century abolitionist practice.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlexis De Veaux\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJesusDevil: The Parables\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Sana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e is a transformative anthology that mixes raw emotions, trauma, self-awareness, politics, spirituality, and sometimes even humor. Shared narratives of pain and collective transformation are expressed through poetry, storytelling, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etestimonios\u003c\/em\u003e, envisioning a different kind of world. It is a manual for Latinx hope.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLawrence La Fountain-Stokes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“First you have to name it. Say it. Unearth it. Then stomp it. And scream. Twirl it. Open to the Sky and howl it. Cry. Step into the Circle. It’s ritual. Sacred Openings that beckon us to dance and laugh and Love and feel and heal anyway. This is what \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana \u003c\/em\u003egives us. Mirrors. Pathways. Shimmering Light. All of this and so much more. Now is the perfect time to read Sana. And Receive.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSharon Bridgforth, \u003c\/strong\u003ewriter, performing artist, and author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebull-jean \u0026amp; dem\/dey back\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Without apology, the voices in this anthology reveal the complexities of living with pain while simultaneously pursuing healing and justice. Whether exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, or class, these works remind us that we are never alone in our pain and do not have to be alone in our healing. These stories are rooted in the power of community, connection—and ultimately love. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that we all have healing tools at our disposal whether that be music, prayer, Vicks VapoRub, sewing, or simply taking shots with a friend over Facetime. The poems and essays in this collection define the reclamation of our power to heal ourselves and our communities as holy work. This work is necessary, bold, unflinching, and a timely addition to contemporary Latinx literature.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElisabet Velasquez\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen We Make It:\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Nuyorican Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Luis Glisch-Sánchez\u003c\/strong\u003e (Editor) is a queer feminist antiracist healer, and is the founder of Soul Support Life Coaching, an individual and organizational coaching practice rooted in the queer Black and Latinx feminist tradition. They are also an interdisciplinary sociologist working in the areas of emotion, race, genders, and sexualities. They currently teach in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNic Rodriguez-Villafañe\u003c\/strong\u003e (Editor) is a non-binary transmasculine Boricua poet, writer, and DJ. They are currently an adjunct professor of American Studies and Writing Arts at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. They have been an organizer for over 15 years and are a researcher with the Philadelphia Participatory Research Collective (PPRC). Their poems have been described as an \"eclectic blend of spanglish hip hop rhythms and Puerto Rican jabería, born out of the southern swamps of Florida.\" Their writing has been featured in The Gordian Review, Philly Inquirer and N.A.S.W Journal. They are a 2012 Leeway Foundation Arts \u0026amp; Change grant recipient and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers Newark. Like most writers they have three jobs to pay bills and six side hustles to stay busy but their main love is always the poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristian A. Bracho\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of La Verne, and previously worked as a high school teacher and teacher trainer. His passions are teaching, learning, traveling, writing, exploring, and laughing. He dedicates his essay to his queridos papás, Leonor Gonzalez Bracho and Marco Antonio Bracho.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaude M Bonazzo-Romaguera \u003c\/strong\u003ereceived his B.S. in Applied Sociology at Southwest Texas State University in 2001 and his M.A. in Sociology at Texas State University in 2004. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Claude currently teaches as a senior lecturer at Texas State University and as an adjunct associate professor at Austin Community College. Most recently they were appointed Director of  the Latina\/o\/x Studies Minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmaris Castillo\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist, writer, and the creator of Bodega Stories, a series featuring real stories from the corner store. Her writing has appeared in La Galería Magazine, Spanglish Voces and PALABRITAS. Her short story, “El Don,” was shortlisted for the 2022 Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writers’ Prize by the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. Amaris lives in Florida with her family. You can read her stories from the colmado at bodegastories.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDr. Marcela Rodriguez-Campo\u003c\/strong\u003e is an interdisciplinary immigration and education community scholar. She is a formerly undocumented Colombian immigrant and first-generation college graduate. Her scholarship examines the relationship between Latinx immigrant experiences with family separation and their educational trajectories. Her work seeks to develop supportive school climates for students from historically marginalized communities. Her writings have been featured in Childhood Geographies, Latinx Talk, Latino Book Review, and Huizache. Marcela is a roller skater, gardener, and poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdyka Chilomé\u003c\/strong\u003e is a queer child of migrant activists from the occupied lands of the Zacateco (Mexico) and Lenca (El Salvador) people. She was raised in migrant justice movements grounded in the tradition of spiritual activism. You can find her in the u.s. and global South sitting at the feet of elders, recovering blood memories, and making way for a new world. Learn more about her work at Edykachilome.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaniel Shank Cruz\u003c\/strong\u003e (he\/they) is a queer disabled boricua who grew up in New York City and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College, CUNY. Cruz is the author of Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community (Penn State University Press, 2019). Their writing has also appeared in venues such as Crítica Hispánica, Modern Haiku, the New York Times, Your Impossible Voice, and numerous essay collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSinai Cota\u003c\/strong\u003e is the defiant daughter of Mexican immigrants, a first-generation college student and a Chicana poet who grew up in Barrio Logan (San Diego, CA). She has roots extending into Tijuana, Mexico where her family currently resides. Sinai is also author of: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePink Poems Tan Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePan Dulce for the Latinx Soul\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMujeres in Movement\u003c\/em\u003e- a series of colorful poems and bilingual short stories that promote healing and self-love through storytelling. Sinai is also an educator and doctoral student at UC San Diego, and plans to include and celebrate underrepresented student voices in higher education through her research. You can follow Sinai on Instagram @PinkChicanaPoet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLysz Flo\u003c\/strong\u003e is an AfroCaribbean Latine, polyglot, spoken word artist, indie author, member of The Estuary Collective, Creatively Exposed podcast host, Voodoonauts Summer 2020 Fellow and Obsidian Black Listening 2022 Fellow. She released her poetry novel Soliloquy of an Ice Queen, March 2020. Online Crystal and Spiritual wellness shop owner at Astrolyszics.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKate Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, writer, and proud Brooklyn native. She is of Puerto Rican and Salvadorian descent. Her work has been published in Region(es) Central magazine Vol. II 2020 issue. As well as in Harvard Palabritas Spring 2020 issue. Kate's poems explore themes of spirituality, self-discovery, local and international social issues and navigates through the waters of human emotion. Her latest work can be found in the forthcoming Alebrijes Review anthology, titled VOZ. She is also currently working on her debut collection of poetry and prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDr. Cynthia Estremera Gauthier\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, educator, humanist, expert facilitator, and equity practitioner. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. from Penn State University and Villanova University both in English and a PhD.in English and Africana Studies from Lehigh University. Cynthia has authored pieces published in blogs, journals, and edited collections. Cynthia leads regional and national racial equity and community engagement work and remains a lifelong advocate for strategies of self-care to combat white supremacist systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJennifer Hernandez Lankford\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Alpha Latina seeking to spread radical self-love with her writing. After years of hiding from her true self she has chosen a journey to embrace the soul work to embody her inner Diosa. Jennifer’s uses her writing as a way to heal and influence other young BIPOC to do the same. As she transitions into writing more and worrying less, you can follow her on instagram @jennthewriter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDafne Faviola Luna\u003c\/strong\u003e is a fat brown queer from California. She is the eldest of a small Mexican-American border dwelling migrant farm worker family. After years of therapy, she has a lovely relationship with her a mom and brother rooted in body positivity and queer allyship. Her piece was written in 2017 and now in 2022 she’s made a career change and lives in Virginia with her dogs Molly and Sebastian. She’s a Capricorn, video gamer, and nerd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEsperanza Luz\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in the Chihuahuan Desert and raised by a small pack of undocumented coyotes. After living in Massachusetts, Brazil, Peru, and Colorado, she returned to southern New Mexico to reconnect to the place she calls home. Today, Esperanza grows flowers and vegetables on borrowed land, plays capoeira, and continues to write, sew and heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAja Y. Martinez\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at University of North Texas. Her scholarship, published nationally and internationally, makes a compelling case for counterstory as methodology through the well-established framework of critical race theory (CRT). She is the author of the award-winning book \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAna Miramontes\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico. She holds a double BA in Theatre Performance and Media Advertising from The University of Texas at El Paso and is currently pursuing an MFA in Acting from the University of Arkansas. She has participated in the New Play Lab at the William Inge Festival, the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheaterSquared, and the Process Series in North Carolina. Actors Equity Association (EMC). https:\/\/www.anamiramontes.com\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaisy Muñoz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Mexican writer and artist raised in Hawthorne, on the outskirts of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The eldest daughter of immigrant parents, she frequently addresses race, gender, mental health, and cultural identity in the U.S through her writing. Daisy graduated from UC Davis with B.A degree in History and Spanish. Her work has been featured in Raising Mothers and Hispanicdotes. She currently resides in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGabriella Navas\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Puerto Rican writer hailing from Jersey City, NJ. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], GASHER, and Storm Cellar. Gabriella is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at The Ohio State University. She is easily distracted, frequently smitten, and always willing to talk about the healing powers of Chavela Vargas’s discography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYulissa Emilia Nunez Severino\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Dominican-American high school English teacher and amateur writer. She believes everyone has a story to share and enjoys helping people strengthen their writer’s voice to do so. Yulissa also enjoys reading and holds a bachelor's degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross and a master's degree from the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English. She dreams of living and working in the Dominican Republic with her loving cat, Luna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusana Victoria Parras\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/her\/hers) is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, mother, friend, partner and a mental health therapist of color committed to generating healing, justice and care through non-carceral practices. Before she found ethnic studies, social justice, abolition and transformative justice she found safety, hope and guidance in imperfect, spacious and loving spaces and relationships. She currently provides anti-carceral mental health therapy through her practice Heal Together, building and growing Heal Together's Anti Carceral Care Collective and organizes with CAT 911 (Community Alternatives To\/Community Action Teams 911) in South Central Los Angeles where she also lives, loves, and works. Susana dedicates her life to healing as a central component for justice, resistance, and activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiany Pérez\u003c\/strong\u003e, (she\/they) is a Bronx-born Queer Black Dominican holistic psychotherapist, intuitive coach, brujx, writer, and proud parent of three. Biany works with high achievers and survivors, both individually and in groups, guiding them on their journey to overcome self-doubt, increase self-awareness, and reconnect to their inner wisdom so that they can thrive in love and life. Check them out at www.bianyperez.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSofia Quintero\u003c\/strong\u003e is a self-proclaimed Ivy League homegirl, GenX Afro-Latina author, screenwriter and hypnotherapist. To date she has published seven books including the critically acclaimed YA novels EFRAIN’S SECRET and SHOW AND PROVE (Knopf Books for Young Readers.) Her latest novel YA novel is inspired by #SayHerName will be published in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaquel Reichard\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/her\/ella) is a journalist and editor. Currently the Deputy Director of Somos, Refinery29's channel by and for Latines, her work has been published in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Vibe, and more. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from the University of Central Florida and a master's degree in Latine media studies from New York University. She currently lives in Puerto Rico's 79th municipality, Orlando, Fla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHector Luis Rivera\u003c\/strong\u003e has been performing poetry since 1990, inspired by the intersectional poetry, music, and political movements of the 1970s in NYC, where he grew up. You can hear Hector’s poetry and song in the first two Welfare Poets’ albums, Project Blues (2000) and Rhymes for Treason (2005), and in Bomba con Buya’s album “Southern Sessions”(2019). Hector is the founder of Peace Inside Out, personal and community transformation through Arts, Restoration, Community, and Health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrankie A. Soto\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 2x winner of the Multicultural Poet of the year award from the National Spoken Word Poetry Awards in Chicago. The New York Times called his Hispanic Heritage Month performance an absolute force. He’s been featured on ABC news and has traveled all across the country featuring at Universities, Colleges \u0026amp; high schools. His HIV poem Guessing Game was nominated \u0026amp; selected for A3C Atlanta Festival. His manuscript 'Petrichor' was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Hudson Prize with Black Lawrence Press \u0026amp; was a finalist for the 2022 Sexton Prize with Black Spring Press in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGisselle Yepes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Puerto Rican and Colombian storyteller from the Bronx. Currently, they are an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University. Gisselle is a Letras Boricuas 2022 Fellowship Recipient and a 2022 Tin House Scholar. Their nonfiction piece “On Her Waters Summoning Us to Drown” won December magazine’s 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction. They are an alum of Tin House Summer Workshop, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Anaphora Writing Residency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eQueridx:  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThank you for witnessing. As a sacred part of healing, witnessing allows us to see ourselves as whole and healthy–an act of pure rebellion in a world so titillated by our constant subjugation and conquest. We hope that you will find that this anthology listens as well as it poses questions and strives for answers, and just when we seem to find the rhythm of peace, something else arises. As we know, healing is not linear. Each voice in this anthology uses the pages to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edesahogar, \u003c\/em\u003ea direct translation says to vent, but the literal meaning is to undrown. Here in this anthology, you will find writers who release that which keeps their throats on fire. Letting go of secrets and burdens, unraveling our \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epapelitos guardados.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn1\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e May we no longer drown from the memories of pain left unsaid. As many have experienced trauma, our instinct is to silence ourselves, to swallow our pain. We know this is one way how generational legacies of trauma continue to exist. What if the one way to interrupt this legacy of pain, is to begin with the honest sharing of our stories?  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe idea for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana \u003c\/em\u003ewas birthed from the experiences that David (co-editor) had in interviewing queer and trans Latinxs about their encounters with social harm and learning the narratives they created and responded to around pain, trauma, and healing. In the dozens of hours of recorded conversations, it was clear: Latinx folx not only had a lot to say about pain and healing, but each, in their own way, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyearned \u003c\/em\u003eto talk about, share, and express these hard truths.  Although the method was collaborative, this initial project was singularly driven and conceived of by David. All the while the collective need that was expressed repeatedly in the process was simply that Latinx folx needed their own space where a multitude of voices, testimonios, and knowledges could be expressed, heard, and engaged. An anthology seemed like the most appropriate vehicle to hold and nurture this need. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eFrom the beginning, it was apparent that this effort required more than one pair of guiding hands:  enter Nic (coeditor). Nic’s experience as an organizer, gifts as a poet, calling as a healer, and depth as an intellectual made them an ideal and desired co-conspirator and collaborator.  Unbeknownst to David at the time, Nic was wrestling with some of the very same questions that would become the core of this anthology. It would seem the Universe had plans for us all along.  We share the genesis of this project, queridx reader, to articulate and underscore the fact that this anthology is more than just a book filled with pages of writing. Rather, it is best understood as ritual, ceremony, and technology, an invitation to enter your individual and our collective wounds communally and not alone. Through our writing and your reading, and the multitude of exchanges that undoubtedly will transpire, we catalyze our healing and call forth visions of and roadmaps for justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe project was introduced to the wider public via social media in January 2021, and within hours, hundreds of people had begun to share the call for submissions. During a time when collectively so many of us were in isolation (almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic) and hungry for connection, the call for this anthology served as a bridge for folks to share stories and histories, parts of their pain and healing, as a process of collective witness. In this age we find ourselves. So many are searching to find a true set of customs that belong rightfully to self. In this time of feeling lost in the braided storylines of conqueror and conquered, it might just be that participating together in the ritual of storytelling is the most fundamental act of living. In reclaiming this birthright, we take back our humanity. It is about saying and doing what we need\/want to imagine and heal. Each voice in this anthology offers a space to talk and feel pain, while also offering the hope of what it means to imagine, heal, and make promises to a more just world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWe take as our title, the beginning words of the popular Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin American children’s folk saying “Sana, sana colita de rana ponte buena para mañana…,” \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn2\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e a common refrain given to children when they get hurt. In fact, the opening words “Sana, sana” provide a calm but firm command to heal. The saying operates as an emotional and spiritual salve to reassure the hurt child that despite whatever pain they might be feeling and experiencing in that moment, healing is a technology and process that is open and available to them. In this same way, it is our intention that the anthology be a reminder to all people that healing is not a commodity for the few, but a resource for the many, and that justice is just another name for healing the collective body. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe anthology is divided into three general themes. It can be read from beginning to end, or as individual sections. As a reader you have the freedom to choose which section feels most aligned with your own present journey. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref1\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e We draw on the idea of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epapelitos guardados \u003c\/em\u003eas presented by The Latina Feminist Group in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTelling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios \u003c\/em\u003e(Duke University Press, 2001). They write, “\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePapelitos guardados \u003c\/em\u003eevokes a process by which we contemplate thoughts and feelings, often in isolation and through difficult times. We keep them in our memory, write them down, and store them in safe places waiting for the appropriate moment when we can return to them for review and analysis, or speak out and share them with others” (p. 1).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref2\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e The folk saying as written here is how it was communicated within David’s Cubanx familia. We recognize that each region, country, island, and family might have slight variations, but all begin with the  words “Sana, sana culito de rana…” whose intent and purpose is similar, if not identical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41053399122013,"sku":"9781942173786","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173786_FC.jpg?v=1695851303"},{"product_id":"an-encyclopedia-of-political-record-labels","title":"An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love letter to over 750 record labels which produced political music as a medium for improving our communities and world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Every entry [in \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia\u003c\/em\u003e] opens a window onto a different story of creativity and resistance … A totally mind-blowing accomplishment.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eGuy Picciotto, Fugazi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eA groundbreaking exploration of the parallel rise of social movements and the vinyl record as the dominant form of music distribution in the second half of the twentieth century, alongside a compendium of over 750 record labels that propelled political music and resistance on an international scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels\u003c\/em\u003e is a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. Focusing on vinyl records and the labels that released them, this groundbreaking book traces the parallel rise of social movements in the second half of the twentieth century and the vinyl record as the dominant form of music distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eJust as the Civil Rights Movement leaps onto mainstream headlines in the early 1960s, the 33rpm “Long Player” and 45rpm single invade people’s stereos. All the major Civil Rights organizations release vinyl records of speeches, movement songs, and field recordings—setting the pace for the intertwining of social movements and easily distributed sound recordings. 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Truly international in scope, over two dozen countries and territories are represented, as well as a myriad of musical styles and forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eJosh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/interferencearchive.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eInterferenceArchive.org\u003c\/a\u003e). MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including \u003cem\u003eSigns of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSignal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. 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A new foreword makes clear Dalla Costa’s importance to understanding the functioning of social reproduction in a world ravaged by COVID-19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-fd9326aa0e3885d77acb\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1632930671608_40866\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa \u003c\/strong\u003eis an influential feminist author and activist, whose seminal book \u003cem\u003eThe Power of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Women and the Subversion of the Community\"\u003eWomen and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, coauthored with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/selma-james\" title=\"Selma James\"\u003eSelma James\u003c\/a\u003e, is a keystone of social reproductive theory and the Wages for Housework campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(Preface)\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero \u003c\/em\u003eand editor of \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation \u003c\/em\u003eamong other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiz Mason-Deese \u003c\/strong\u003e(Foreword)\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis an editor at \u003cem\u003eViewpoint Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a member of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. 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So too have they expressed the joy of reclaiming collective life and a different way of composing a common world. At the root of these rebellious moments lies thresholds—the spaces to be crossed from cities of domination and exploitation to a common world of liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTowards the City of Thresholds\u003c\/em\u003e is a pioneering and ingenious study of these new forms of socialization and uses of space—self-managed and communal—that passionately reveals cities as the sites of manifest social antagonism as well as spatialities of emancipation. Activist and architect Stavros Stavrides describes the powerful reinvention of politics and social relations stirring everywhere in our urban world and analyzes the theoretical underpinnings present in these metropolitan spaces and how they might be bridged to expand the commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWhat is the emancipatory potential of the city in a time of crisis? What thresholds must be crossed for us to realize this potential? To answer these questions, Stavrides draws penetrating insight from the critical philosophies of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, and Henri Lefebvre—among others—to challenge the despotism of the political and urban crises of our times and reveal the heterotopias immanent within them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eStavros Stavrides is an architect and professor teaching at the National Technical University of Athens on housing and public space design as well as on the meaning of metropolitan experience. Stavrides’s work on political autonomy in contemporary crises-governed cities provides timely urban theory to theorize forms of emancipating spatial practices and urban commoning, illuminated by an experience and knowledge of protest and rebellion in Athens since 2008. In addition to \u003cem\u003eTowards the City of Thresholds\u003c\/em\u003e, he has published six books and numerous articles. His recent books include: \u003cem\u003eThe Symbolic Relation to Space\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAdvertising and the Meaning of Space\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Texture of Things\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrom the City-as-Screen to the City-as-Stage\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSuspended Spaces of Alterity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCommon Space: The City as Commons\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eCommon Spaces of Urban Emancipation\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141351350365,"sku":"9781942173090","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/Screen_Shot_2019-03-15_at_9.48.58_PM.png?v=1694110872"},{"product_id":"the-self-devouring-society-capitalism-narcissism-and-self-destruction","title":"The Self-Devouring Society: Capitalism, Narcissism, and Self-Destruction","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenowned theorist Anselm Jappe explains how contemporary capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe Greek myth of Erysichthon describes the fate of a king whose hunger drove him to eat until the only thing left to devour was himself. This image—of a society spiraling inexorably in a self-destructive dynamic—forms the starting point of Anselm Jappe’s investigation into the relationship between contemporary capitalism and subjectivity, or our personal experience of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn a work that unites the critique of political economy and the psychoanalytic tradition, Jappe explores the dynamics of contemporary capitalism and explains how internalizing them creates a specific kind of person—a narcissist, someone who can only interact with the world by consuming it and who cannot conceive of limits to this consumption. In conversation with Marx as well as Freud, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Christopher Lasch, Jappe probes the ways in which the churning of the capitalist machine, ceaseless and yet devoid of real purpose, creates an endless hunger that increasingly ends in spectacular violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eEveryone can feel that the world is getting angrier. \u003cem\u003eThe Self-Devouring Society\u003c\/em\u003e provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e About the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnselm Jappe\u003c\/strong\u003e is a philosopher and social critic who explores the intersection between contemporary capitalism, art, and subjectivity. He currently teaches aesthetics at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Rome. His books have been translated into several languages. Books in English include \u003cem\u003eGuy Debord\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press\/PM Press) and \u003cem\u003eThe Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics\u003c\/em\u003e (Zero Books). In 2015, \u003cem\u003eLe Magazine Littéraire\u003c\/em\u003e listed Jappe as one of “Thirty Names in French Thought to Watch Out For.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric-John Russell\u003c\/strong\u003e (Translator) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSpectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything Is as it Seems\u003c\/em\u003e and an editor of \u003cem\u003eCured Quail\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Anselm Jappe has written a most insightful book. It is about the critique of value as a social practice of reified individuals. He develops narcissism as a subjective form of social indifference, cruelty, and violence. Disenchanted by its own madness, it runs amok in late capitalism.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Werner Bonefeld, author of \u003cem\u003eA Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“An absolutely remarkable essay on the links between narcissism and ultra-capitalism. It should be read with a solid reserve of coffee and silence at your disposal: its analysis is as fascinating as it is sharp.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMaïa Mazaurette, \u003cem\u003eGQ France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e “Anselm Jappe describes the slow development of capitalism through the growing narcissism of the subject. The indifference and cruelty of capitalism, obsessed with quantitative value...is mirrored in the narcissist's indifference and cruelty to others.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Romaric Godin, \u003cem\u003eMediapart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“...Capitalism creates a profound anthropological mutation, according to the author, by destroying all the symbolic and material limits to its expansion.... The globalization of capitalism being practically complete today, the modern subject ends up internalizing the ‘“death drive’” of this fetishized world, the crucible for the outbursts of extreme violence that strike at the very heart of the most developed countries.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMehdi Benallal, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for previous work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“A clear-headed account … far and away the best we have so far.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be unreservedly recommended. … particularly useful for its extensive treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”—\u003cstrong\u003eKen Knabb, editor of \u003cem\u003eSituationist International Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon in order to understand it.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo or Die\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian. Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject, above all, because it reads Debord, and helps us read him, with that future in mind.”—\u003cstrong\u003eT.J. Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrologue: A King Who Devoured Himself\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: On the Fetishism That Rules This World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eLessons from the Critique of Value · A Bad Subject · It’s Descartes’ Fault · Excursus: Descartes the Musicologist and the Acceleration of History · Kant, a Theorist of Freedom? · The Marquis de Sade and the Moral Law · Enough Philosophy, Time for Action · Narcissism as a Consolation for Impotence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Narcissism and Capitalism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWhat is Narcissism? · Narcissism and Fear of Separation · Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse · Christopher Lasch: Narcissism as a Critical Category · A Short History of Narcissism · The Fetishist-Narcissist Paradigm · Return to Nature, Conquer Nature, or Overcome Capitalist Regression?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: Contemporary Thought in the Face of Fetishism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eA Loss of Limits? · Evoking Authority to Escape the Market? · On Idealism and Materialism · New Forms, Old Woes? · New Discourse on the Miseries of Our Time · A Transformation Older Than Digital Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: The Crisis of the Subject-Form\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe Death Drive of Capitalism · \u003cem\u003eRunning Amok\u003c\/em\u003e and Jihad · Understanding \u003cem\u003eRunning Amok\u003c\/em\u003e · No Reason to Be Found · Capitalism and Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue: What Is to Be Done with This Bad Subject?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix: Some Essential Points of the Critique of Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Chapter 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eOur approach is to think together the concepts of “narcissism” and “commodity fetishism” and to indicate their simultaneous development; or, more precisely, to demonstrate that they are two sides of the same social form. As we will see in more detail in the next chapter, the narcissist, following Freud, is essentially a person who remains, despite appearances, at a primitive stage of their psychic development: they perceive, like the newborn, the whole world as an extension of their own ego. Or, to put it better, narcissists do not conceive of a separation between the self and the world—since they cannot accept the original separation from the maternal figure. In order to “magically” deny this painful separation, and the feelings of impotence and distress it entails, the narcissist experiences the entire world, including their fellow human beings, as an extension of their ego. Obviously, this is accomplished unconsciously. Behind an appearance of normality, the adult narcissist hides the inability of recognizing “objects,” in the broadest sense, in their autonomy and accepting their separation. The egocentrism of the narcissist—its most visible aspect—is only a consequence of this process. The external world is perceived as a \u003cem\u003eprojection\u003c\/em\u003e: objects and people are not perceived for what they are, but as extensions of the subject’s inner world. Faced with the feeling of omnipotence of the narcissistic ego—which resorts, if necessary, at least in the case of a small child, to forms of hallucinatory satisfaction of its desires—the world is only an object to be manipulated, or even an obstacle for the effective realization of desires so easily to satisfied within the sphere of the imagination. The physical body of the narcissistic subject is also part of this potentially hostile and refractory external world. In the division between the narcissistic self and the world, the boundaries of the external world begin with one’s own body. The latter can resist the self and painfully remind it of its limits, as well as the irreducibility of the external world to its desires. As for the ego, it does not immediately identify with the body and its sensations, but only with the inner world and the subject’s impulses—what Freud called the “primary process.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eOf course, the narcissism referred to here does not consist merely in an excess of self-love, vanity, and the cult of the body, nor even in the cult of the ego or in egoism, as the more common use of the term suggests. Narcissism, in the psychoanalytic sense, is on the contrary a weakness of the ego: the individual remains confined to a primitive phase of psychic development. It does not even reach the stage of Oedipal conflict, which gives access to “object relations.” It is the opposite of a strong and glorified self: impoverished and empty because it is unable to flourish in true relations with external objects and people. It limits itself to reliving the same primitive impulses over and over again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41230775779421,"sku":"9781942173793","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/712V4ykGBfL._SL1000.jpg?v=1697653928"},{"product_id":"defend-defund-a-visual-history-of-organizing-against-the-police","title":"Defend\/Defund: A Visual History of Organizing Against the Police","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"block-c156e044f1f19a71a895\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions, and narrative.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1688606756167_47858\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn the summer of 2020, the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade ignited a movement that led to the largest street protests in American history. Abolitionist grassroots organizers around the country unified around a clear demand: defund the police and refund our communities. While the majority of the country supported the call to reform the police, what followed was a backlash from mainstream politicians and the press, all but defeating the movement to end the continued violence against Black Americans. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDefend \/ Defund\u003c\/em\u003e examines the history of how communities have responded to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the United States and asks what lessons the modern abolitionist movement can draw from this past. Organized in a series of thematic sections from the use of self-defense by Black organizers, to queer resistance in urban spaces, the narrative is accompanied by over one hundred full-color images including archival materials produced by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Young Lords in the 1960s and 70s, CopWatch and the Stolen Lives Project in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary material from the Movement for Black Lives, Project NIA, and INCITE!, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDefend \/ Defund\u003c\/em\u003e shows how deep the struggles for abolition go and how urgent they remain.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn addition to full-color reproduction of archival materials, the narrative includes transcripts of interviews with activists, scholars, and artists such as \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" title=\"Mariame Kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, Dread Scott, Dennis Flores, Dr. Joshua Myers, Jawanza Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals), \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCheryl Rivera\u003c\/strong\u003e (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition Action), and \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBianca Cunningham\u003c\/strong\u003e (Free Black Radicals). Each conversation dives into the history of specific struggles with, and organizing against, police and police brutality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn total, the publication shows how the modern Defund movement builds on powerful Black feminist and abolitionist movements past and imagines alternatives to policing for community safety for our present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInterference Archive\u003c\/strong\u003e is a community-supported archive of material from social movements around the world, created with a mission to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrooke Darrah Shuman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a video producer at \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMore Perfect Union\u003c\/em\u003e covering labor and workers' rights. Her video and writing has appeared in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHuffPost, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouthern Foodways Alliance\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a volunteer at Interference Archive, an open stacks archive of political movement material, where she has worked on exhibitions on antifascism in the United States and disability\/crip activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJen Hoyer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Social Movement Archive\u003c\/em\u003e (Litwin Books, 2021) and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom\u003c\/em\u003e (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJosh MacPhee\u003c\/strong\u003e has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the author\/editor of multiple books including \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCelebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels\u003c\/em\u003e (Common Notions, 2019), and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGraphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements\u003c\/em\u003e (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition We Want Everything was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder of Project NIA, and has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2019 Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice, 2019 Visionary Voice Award, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEssence Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e 2018 #Woke100; an acknowledged expert on the topic of youth incarceration she’s had appearances on \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNBC News, the Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDread Scott\u003c\/strong\u003e is a visual artist who makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2020 United States Artists Fellow, whose work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Gallery MOMO in South Africa. It is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e selected his art as one of The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e and on \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCNN\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDennis Flores\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Nuyorican multimedia artist, activist and educator born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He is the cofounder of El Grito de Sunset Park, a grassroots community-based organization that advocates around issues of discriminatory policing and housing rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDr. Joshua Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University. He is the author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOf\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack Study, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJawanza Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e has won awards including Citizen Action of New York 2019 Everyday Hero Award and 2020 Village Independent Democrats Honor for Progressive Activism. He has been featured in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times, The Nation, Slate Magazine, NBC News\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCheryl Rivera\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Brooklyn-based organizer with NYC-DSA and Abolition Action and an editor of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLux\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBianca Cunningham\u003c\/strong\u003e is a DSA member in Brooklyn and chair of the NYC DSA Labor Branch. She led her coworkers to join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1109 in 2014, becoming the first-ever Verizon Wireless retail workers to unionize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIntroduction Legacies of Violence \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelf Defense\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiving Under Disinvestment \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhose Streets? Our Streets!  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCivilian Watch Groups \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Conversation with Mariame Kaba\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAttempts at Reform   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCivilian Complaint Review Board   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDiversifying The Force   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEyes on the State \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCopwatch   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStolen Lives Project   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCopaganda  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Conversation with Dread Scott \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Conversation with Dennis Flores\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNaming the Problem: Pig Nation   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Black Worker and Police Brutality \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRiot!  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Resistance \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFighting for Demilitarization \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCultural Organizing \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Conversation with Joshua Myers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImagining An Abolitionist Future \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Conversation with Occupy City Hall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41242191724637,"sku":"9781942173885","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173885_FC.jpg?v=1697999884"},{"product_id":"new-bones-abolitionism-and-the-captive-maternal","title":"New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the Afterlife of Erica Garner","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1678236733748_5544\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition \u003c\/em\u003eaddresses “those of us broken enough to grow new bones” in order to stabilize our political traditions that renew freedom struggles.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eReflecting on police violence, political movements, Black feminism, Erica Garner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, caretakers and compradors, Joy James analyzes the “Captive Maternal,” which emerges from legacies of colonialism, chattel slavery and predatory policing, to explore the stages of resistance and communal rebellion that manifest through war resistance. She recognizes a long line of gendered and ungendered freedom fighters, who, within a racialized and economically-stratified democracy, transform from coerced or conflicted caretakers into builders of movements, who realize the necessity of maroon spaces, and ultimately the inevitability of becoming war resisters that mobilize against genocide and state violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e weaves a narrative of a historically complex and engaged people seeking to quell state violence. James discusses the contributions of the mother Mamie Till-Mobley who held a 1955 open-casket funeral for her fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, murdered by white nationalists; the 1971 rebels at Attica prison; the resilience of political prisoners despite the surplus torture they endured; the emergence of Black feminists as political theorists; human rights advocates seeking abolition; and the radical intellectualism of Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner slain in 2014 by the NYPD. James positions the Captive Maternal within the evolution of contemporary abolition. Her meditation on, and theorizing of, Black radicals and revolutionaries works to honor Agape-driven communities and organizers that deter state\/police predatory violence through love, caretaking, protest, movements, marronage, and war resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eRead an interview with Joy James about the book at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/bar-book-forum-joy-james-book-new-bones-abolition\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Agenda Report\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuthor revenues contributed to books for incarcerated\/under-resourced communities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoy James\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of \u003cem\u003eResisting State Violence; Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth; Seeking the Beloved Community; \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love\u003c\/em\u003e. James’s numerous political theory articles on policing, prisons, abolitions, feminisms; and anti-Black racism include “The Womb of Western Theory,” an exploration of the Captive Maternal. James is editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Abolitionists; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader;\u003c\/em\u003e and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Feminist Reader.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-bf473169487e7207848e\" data-block-type=\"47\" class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-99381f34f86e3628ef2e\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition \u003c\/em\u003eis a reminder that state repression is indiscriminate when it comes to gender—or generation. The NYPD strangled Eric Garner but his daughter Erica refused to accept defeat. Thank you Dr. Joy James for making sure that the flood lights of history will be aimed in the proper direction.”—Kalonji Jama Changa, cofounder of Black Power Media, organizer and founder of FTP Movement, and coproducer of \u003cem\u003eOrganizing is the New Cool\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a series of dialectical engagements with the captive conditions of a racist society alongside an incisive assessment of movement gains, losses, and betrayals. Utilizing the Captive Maternal analytic, Joy James brilliantly maps the continuum from coerced or conflicted caregiving to war resistance against the physical, emotional, and psychological outcomes that are produced under a predatory democracy. We must grow new bones to recoup our generative and reproductive labor from those who enslave and imprison us—new bones that move beyond the rhetorical to materially confront imperialist violence and premature death. James’ thoughtful and urgent work leaves us with a renewed commitment to the unfinished struggle for Black liberation.”—Jalessah T. Jackson, founder of the Decolonial Feminist Collective and Access Reproductive Care Southeast Interim Executive Director\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“From caretaking for those on the frontlines to war resistance against deathly policing and imperialism, Joy James details the myriad forms in which a ‘new bones’ abolition might learn from the life of Erica Garner and others. A beautiful love letter to those radicalized by trauma, and a clarion call to join them in the struggle for our collective liberation, \u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition \u003c\/em\u003ehonors the ancestors of centuries-long and present-day freedom movements and grounds their legacies as inheritances for the rebels and war resisters among us who are fighting for a future without police and state violence.” —Charmaine Chua, University of California, Santa Barbara, Global Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“It is impossible to read more than several pages of \u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition \u003c\/em\u003ewithout confronting the long historical terror that saturates the present. This book is animated by the militancy of the Captive Maternal as a vessel of Black radical care and insurgent community, demystifying the liberal\/nonprofit hijacking of ‘abolition’ while illuminating collective experiments in liberation that obliterate and make obsolete the anti-Black state—in and beyond the United States. Joy James identifies and dismantles the backdoor liberalism that endorses fraudulent ‘radical’ identities, organizations, and movements, offering a framework for collective study that builds liberationist analyses in the context of an increasingly multilayered, ‘progressive’ and reactionary counterinsurgency. I am grateful for this work.”—Dylan Rodríguez, author of \u003cem\u003eWhite Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide, \u003c\/em\u003eUniversity of California, Riverside, Department of Black Study and Department of Media and Cultural Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A much needed reflection from the Black radical tradition on the second wave of Black Lives Matter protests following the murders of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. By focusing on caregivers in the movement Joy James not only defines new modes of analysis for our movement, but extends much needed recognition of the crucial role that Black women and other caregivers play in the struggle for Black liberation. Above all, this book is a testament to the power and brilliance of our warrior-sister Erica Garner.” —Michael Bento\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e#NYCShutItDown and contributor to \u003cem\u003eNo Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Joy James\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTranscending the Talented Tenth\u003c\/em\u003e proposes original analyses of historical portrayals of the African American intelligentsia as a way of understanding the contested terrain on which contemporary black intellectuals work . . . . Joy James’ work is a pioneering intervention.”—Angela Y. Davis, author of \u003cem\u003eAre Prisons Obsolete?,\u003c\/em\u003e University of California, \u003cbr\u003e Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“James reveals a radical tradition [in \u003cem\u003eShadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics\u003c\/em\u003e] that could free us all.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“In this extraordinary volume, James brings together the powerful voices of prison resistance, past and present, providing the intellectual foundations for a comparative approach to our understanding of criminal justice as a tool for political repression. \u003cem\u003eImprisoned Intellectuals\u003c\/em\u003e creates a critical scholarly resource for interpreting criminal justice and its impact on race, gender, and class hierarchies of power.”—Manning Marable, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Capitalism Underveloped Black America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Americans have a hard time thinking about race, gender, and class at the same time, especially when intellectuals are in question. But not Joy James. Her refreshing discussion of Black thought refuses to stop with men or the highly educated. This [\u003cem\u003eTranscending the Talented Tenth\u003c\/em\u003e] is what African-American Studies is about in the best sense of the phrase.”—Nell Irvin Painter, author of \u003cem\u003eSojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“A superb collection, both instructive and inspiring. Joy James is to be complimented for \u003cem\u003eImprisoned Intellectuals \u003c\/em\u003eand for her thoughtful introductory essay.”—Dennis Brutus, poet and former political prisoner of South African apartheid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This Joy James reader [\u003cem\u003eSeeking the Beloved Community\u003c\/em\u003e] is at its core a portrait of ‘the making of a dissident voice’. . . . What we most desperately need in a world that fears and silences opposition—or worse—are revolutionaries who speak truth to power and beckon us to stand with them in solidarity. \u003cem\u003eA luta continua\u003c\/em\u003e.”—Beverly Guy-Sheftall, author of \u003cem\u003eAlice Walker: Beauty in Truth, \u003c\/em\u003eWomen’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“These broad-ranging essays in \u003cem\u003eSeeking the Beloved Community \u003c\/em\u003ecircle around the topic of building community under siege. Communities can be ‘thorny ties,’ as Joy James notes, yet are vital for developing a critical consciousness of one’s society. James also provides an astute analysis of the antirevolutionary trends in social theory today. Herein one will find the voice of a dissident humanist in full flower.”—Linda Martín Alcoff, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eConstructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eImprisoned Intellectuals\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique and very significant contribution.”—Bettina Aptheker, author of \u003cem\u003eCommunists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1693914826104_22156\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“new bones” by Lucille Clifton \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eBlack Feminisms and Captive Maternal Agency \u003cbr\u003eOld\/New Bones Abolition: Academic Conferences and Communal Gatherings \u003cbr\u003eMovement Capture and Monetized Black Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe Killing and Dishonor of Eric Garner \u003cbr\u003eMother-Daughter Doula \u003cbr\u003eCampaigning for Bernie and Against the DNC \u003cbr\u003eCaptive (After)Lives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003ePolice Violence and the Limits of Legalism \u003cbr\u003eInternational Alliances for Human Rights \u003cbr\u003eWar Resistance: \u003cem\u003eWe Charge Genocide\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eReturn to the Source \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eConclusion: Prioritizing Care and Ancestors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eFurther Resources \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41270231498845,"sku":"9781942173748","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173748_fc.jpg?v=1698951559"},{"product_id":"graphic-liberation-perspectives-on-image-making-and-political-movements","title":"Graphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the fight against the AIDS crisis to the struggle for Black liberation and international solidarity, Graphic Liberation! digs deep into the history, present, and future of revolutionary political image making.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is the role of image and aesthetic in revolution? Through a series of interviews with some of the most accomplished designers, Josh MacPhee charts the importance of revolutionary aesthetics from the struggle for abolition by Black Panthers, the agitation during the AIDS crisis from ACT-UP, the fight against apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, as well as everyday organizing against nuclear power, for housing, and international solidarity in Germany, Japan, China, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn twelve interviews, political designer and street artist Josh MacPhee talks to decorated graphic designers such as Avram Finkelstein, Emory Douglas, and more, focussing on each of their contributions to the field of political graphics, their relationships to social movements and political organizing, the history of political image making, and issues arising from reproduction and copyright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosh MacPhee\u003c\/strong\u003e has created a composite work life that merges elements of designer, artist, author, historian, and archivist. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative (Justseeds.org), the author of \u003cem\u003eAn Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels\u003c\/em\u003e, and coeditor of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He cofounded and helps run Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements (InterferenceArchive.org). He regularly works with community and social justice organizations building agit-prop and consulting on cultural strategy. work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterviewees\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvram Finkelstein\u003c\/strong\u003e is a US designer from Silence=Death Project, Gran Fury, ACT UP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Alder\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Australia-based printmaker, member of Redback Grafix, and founder of Megalo print studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmory Douglas\u003c\/strong\u003e is former revolutionary artist and designer for the Black Panther Party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMelanie Cervantes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Chicanx printmaker in the Bay Area, member of Dignidad Rebelde with Jesus Barraza, and a member of Justseeds Artists Cooperative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJesus Barraza\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Chicanx printmaker in the Bay Area, member of Dignidad Rebelde with Melanie Cervantes, and a member of Justseeds Artists Cooperative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Drennan ElAwar\u003c\/strong\u003e is founder of Jamaa Al-Yad graphics collective in Beirut, Lebanon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTomie Arai\u003c\/strong\u003e is an early member of Basement Workshop, the first political cultural space in NYC Chinatown in the 1970s, and a member of Godzilla, Asian-American arts collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSandy Kaltenborn\u003c\/strong\u003e is cofounder of Kotti \u0026amp; Co. housing initiative in Berlin and image-shift studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudy Seidman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a longtime South African arts organizer, activist, and member of Medu Arts Ensemble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA3BC Collective\u003c\/strong\u003e is an antinuclear-antimilitarist block making collective in Tokyo, Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTings Chak\u003c\/strong\u003e is based in China and is the art director of the new Tricontinental.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41430540484701,"sku":"9781942173878","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173878_FC.jpg?v=1704137046"},{"product_id":"storming-bedlam-madness-utopia-and-revolt","title":"Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-d9133e279bbbf251dd05\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines mental health care and its radical possibilities in the context of its global development under capitalism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1688608279054_15847\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe contemporary world is oversaturated with new psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of \"crises\" in mental health care. When they fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e, Sasha Warren suggests that the intense contradictions that animate psychiatric care can only be conceptualized by situating its technical composition in its actual social, political, and economic conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry, \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e emphasizes the utopian origins of the psychiatric revolution and its roots in the political and economic revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Warren traces a double movement in the global development of mental health services from its origins through the 20th century: a radical current pushing totalizing and idealistic visions of care to their practical limits and a reactionary one content with managing or eliminating chronically idle surplus populations. In an original and compelling account of radical experimentation in psychiatry, moral treatment is read in the light of the utopian socialist movement; the theory of communication in the French Institutional Psychotherapy of Félix Guattari is put into conversation with the Brazilian art therapy of Nise da Silveira; the Mexican anti-psychiatry movement’s reflections on violence are thought together with theories of violence developed in Argentinian psychoanalysis and Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial therapeutic practice; while the social form of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry and Brazilian anti-institutional movements are contrasted with the anti-psychiatry factions of the 1960s–70s North American counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eChronicling and comparing these movements, \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e argues that long standing divisions between social and biological approaches or between psychiatry and anti-psychiatry as discrete positions are tenuous and circular. Instead of avoiding these binaries, Warren travels through them, using their own internal logics to expose their hidden presuppositions in search of an approach to mental health care grounded in common struggles against conditions of scarcity, poverty, isolation, and exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSasha Durakov Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer based in Minneapolis. His experiences within the psychiatric system and commitment to radical politics led him to cofound the group Hearing Voices Twin Cities, which provides an alternative social space for individuals to discuss often stigmatized extreme experiences and network with one-another. 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As Nancy grows into adulthood, she pieces together what happened to her father and devises a bold plan to avenge his disappearance.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eUnraveling an international web of deceit in order to find her father will take time and patience; and becoming a cold-blooded assassin takes commitment to a life at odds with everything she knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Salaita\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning scholar, writer, and activist. 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I could see only shades of beige in every direction. No trees. No grass. No shrubbery. I had been dropped into an ecosystem of microbes and subterranean animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            Two concave wounds on my right cheek festered in the midday heat. My abdomen throbbed beneath fractured ribs. I sat in a drift of sand near the top of a dune, battered, pathetic, exhausted. Dehydration pushed my brain against the inside of my skull. I scanned the cloudless sky. No hope of curing the condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            I took off my shirt and wrapped it around my scalp, trying to cover my shoulders and arms with the remaining fabric. My boxer-briefs were useless but for the slim hope that I would encounter another person. No leg bones were broken. My bare feet were an advantage in the sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            The soldiers concealed my vision on the drive over. Once the sounds of civilization had disappeared, we were on a paved road for a long time, but I had no sense of scope or distance. We pulled off and then drove across unstable terrain for another long time. I figured I wasn’t terribly far from a road, which would eventually lead to a curbside stall or a village. A battered man in underwear wouldn’t entice any drivers to stop, but one of them might recognize my dire condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            I stayed in place while considering my options. There really was no choice but to follow the tire tracks before the wind blew them away. They could lead me further into the desert, but I didn’t imagine my captors to be so clever or patient. They would have wanted to get home and eat dinner. These were men guided not by method, but appetite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            The sun was high overhead. It scorched my wounds and gave my skin a papery texture. Nightfall would bring relief and a new set of problems. I always heard that stargazing from the desert is remarkable, that without light pollution the entire sky looks different, brighter, busier, but I’d never done it. Here I was in the desert and still wouldn’t get the chance. I doubted I’d be alive by twilight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            I considered dying where I sat—it wouldn’t take long—but I wasn’t ready to give up the prospect of impossibility. 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I’ll never know for sure, which I suppose is a way of saying he’s dead even if he’s physically alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            I remember knowing something was wrong well before my mom confessed that he was missing. For weeks she was tense and temperamental, yelling on the phone and entertaining a parade of visitors who never smiled. A bunch of cameramen showed up at our house one morning. I came downstairs to find the living room crammed with soundboards and cameras, mom off to the side whispering to some man with a fancy black suit and perfect hair. Teachers started being extra-gentle, to the point of annoyance. Friends no longer wanted to play with me. I felt dangerous, grotesque, like I had something contagious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e            When she sat me down to explain that dad might not be coming home for a while, I didn’t cry or ask questions. I’d noticed his absence among the crowds glumly cluttering our space. I didn’t know why he was gone, only that he traveled a lot and always came home, usually with a box of candy or a stuffed animal (which I figured out later in life he bought at the airport). I was concerned and all but it was almost a casual worry because I assumed he’d eventually show up. 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Written from a perspective of open and honest sympathy with the governments of Morales and his successor, Luis Arce, Hardt and Mezzadra are nonetheless attentive to a number of the limits and contradictions faced by these administrations, not least because the authors have spent time with clear-eyed Bolivian social movement activists and intellectuals on the ground. Perhaps the most important contribution of their intervention is that it reveals, once again, how the last two decades of concrete and particular social struggles in a landlocked Andean-Amazonian country are of pivotal and universal significance to the anticapitalist international left.” Jeffery R. Webber, coauthor of \u003cem\u003e The Impasse of the Latin American Left \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism Party (MAS) has been a leading force in the struggle to build socialism, break the chains of imperialism, and dismantle racism. This timely book analyzes many of MAS’s most important achievements, while also addressing impediments it has faced, including the 2019 coup d’état. In their analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing MAS and Bolivia’s progressive social movements in the current conjuncture, Hardt and Mezzadra bring much-needed nuance to key debates around development, extractivism, and the relationship between movements and parties. They point to promising paths for development that could further challenge the international division of labor and advance the project of a just transition to sustainable energy.” Jennifer S. Ponce de León, author of \u003cem\u003e Another Aesthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion  in the Fourth World War \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The Bolivian crucible, heated by revolution and counter- revolution alike, has much to teach us about the accomplishments and limitations of the first Pink Tide, and more importantly, about the prospects of a second. Bolivia beyond the Impasse gives us exactly what we need: a concise and even-handed analysis of what has happened, what is happening, and what radical possibilities can be glimpsed on the horizon.” Geo Maher, author of \u003cem\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/em\u003e  and \u003cem\u003eBuilding the Commun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Hardt teaches political theory in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is coauthor of several books with Antonio Negri, including \u003cem\u003e Empire \u003c\/em\u003e . His most recent book is \u003cem\u003e The Subversive Seventies \u003c\/em\u003e . Together with Sandro Mezzadra, he hosts The Social Movements Lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSandro Mezzadra teaches political theory at the University of Bologna, Department of Arts. He is the author of \u003cem\u003e In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects \u003c\/em\u003e and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eBorder as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labo\u003c\/em\u003er and \u003cem\u003e The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBolivia’s political, social, and economic achievements since Evo Morales took office in 2006, and since the Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) has been the predominant force in national politics, are indicative of the accomplishments of the entire cycle of Latin American progressive governments (also known as the “pink tide”) that began in the 2000s. Although small in geographical terms compared to many of its neighbors, Bolivia provided a privileged position for understanding the potential and results of progressive continental developments. Today, however, the political conjuncture in Latin America has changed. The socialist projects are constantly threatened by the aggressive and often violent oligarchic and right-wing forces, but they also face internal obstacles. There is widespread recognition, in particular, that, although they made great accomplishments, the dynamic of progressive policies that animated the left for over a decade has now been exhausted. Bolivia and the MAS are faced with an impasse, and therefore with the need to break with the policies of the long first phase and launch a new political, social, and economic project. In all these respects, Bolivia once again serves as bell weather for gauging the obstacles and potential for further developments across the continent as a whole. The impasse in Bolivia, in fact, is symptomatic of not only the exhaustion of the first wave of progressive governments in Latin America which began in the early 2000s but also the challenges that must be overcome today in order to realize a second wave across the continent. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42007869456477,"sku":"9781942173977","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173977_FC.jpg?v=1713553595"},{"product_id":"lend-and-rule-fighting-the-shadow-financialization-of-public-universities","title":"Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' id=\"block-d83cc406c869939e9713\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublic higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLend and Rule\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the “shadow governance” of debt and credit in the United States higher education system. With sharp and hard-hitting insight, the Coalition Against Campus Debt exposes how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAddressing how our lives are entangled in a debt economy, they develop the analysis necessary to transform higher education in today’s neoliberal racial capitalist political economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003ePart theoretical analysis, part toolbox for organizers in higher education, \u003cem\u003eLend and Rule\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable resource for anyone engaged in debt abolition struggles or looking to acquire a critical and transformative vision of higher education today.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoalition Against Campus Debt\u003c\/strong\u003e is a collective of educators and organizers active in higher education struggles as well as the debt abolition movement more widely for over a decade. Members include Jason Wozniak, Eleni Schirmer, Dana Morrison, Joanna Gonsalves, Richard Levy, Maria del Mar Rosa Rodriguez, Sofya Aptekar, Tracy Berger, and Barbara Madeloni.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e* * * \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSofya Aptekar \u003c\/strong\u003eis an associate professor of urban studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eGreen Card Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e (MIT, 2023) and a delegate of the Professional Staff Congress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracy Berger \u003c\/strong\u003eis a mom of two, member of United Campus Workers Colorado, and staff organizer with Higher Education Labor United (HELU). She previously worked as staff at the University of Colorado Boulder and Front Range Community College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaría del Mar Rosa-Rodríguez\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, and the president of the faculty union of the UPR, Asociación Puertorriqueña de Profesores Universitarios (APPU). She is also the cofounder of the Junte de Mujeres Sindicalistas, bringing together feminism and syndicalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoanna Gonsalves \u003c\/strong\u003eis a psychology professor at Salem State University and president of the Massachusetts State College Association faculty union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRich Levy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of Political Science emeritus at Salem State University and a member of Educators for a Democratic Union. He and Joanna Gonsalves are coordinators of the Massachusetts Campus Debt Reveal and the Massachusetts Anti-Privatization Project, both funded by the Massachusetts Teachers Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Madeloni\u003c\/strong\u003e is an organizer and writer for \u003cem\u003eLabor Notes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDana Morrison \u003c\/strong\u003eis an associate professor in the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and chapter secretary of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleni Schirmer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer living in Montréal. She organizes with the Debt Collective. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Thomas Wozniak\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor in the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department, Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change Program, and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES) at West Chester University. He is also a long-term organizer with Debt Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1720648912879_3188\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This outstanding book is a crystal-clear analysis of how and why higher education got captured by the finance industry. It's also the definitive guide for those who want to free themselves and their institutions from the sticky trap set by Wall Street.” Andrew Ross, author of \u003cem\u003eCreditocracy: And the Case for Debt Refusal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“Institutional debt is used to push the rising cost of public college education onto students and their families—predominantly Black, Brown, and white working class—while enriching Wall Street and the wealthy. The result is ever increasing student loan debt ($1.7 trillion as of 2023) as college graduates struggle to pay off their student debt and make a living. It’s a textbook case of racialized austerity imposed on an increasingly diverse student population, the effect of which is public colleges and universities that are beholden to bondholders and credit rating agencies, not to the public. It does not have to be this way. In \u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule\u003c\/em\u003e, the Coalition Against Campus Debt takes on the corporatization of higher ed and makes a definitive case for the urgent role of public higher ed workers’ unions to lead—and win. It is a call for action for workers, students, and the public to fight against racial capitalism and for free public higher education for all.” Rotua Lumbantobing, Professor of Economics at Western Connecticut State University and Vice President of American Association of University Professors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule\u003c\/em\u003e is the book that university students and workers have been waiting for. It offers a cutting analysis of how institutional debt makes campus jobs worse and how debt erodes the public mission of education by filling the pockets of financiers with tuition dollars from the nation’s most exploited students. More than that, \u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule\u003c\/em\u003e offers a positive vision of how to organize against this status quo and make necessary change towards a truly democratic higher education system.” Andy Hines, author of \u003cem\u003eOutside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University\u003c\/em\u003e and the editor of \u003cem\u003eUniversity Keywords\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule\u003c\/em\u003e is a shocking exposé of the debt crisis no one is talking about. Our colleges and universities are buried in institutional debt, with dire consequences for all of us. This dynamite book shows how to look under the financial hood so we can build well-informed movements with the power to win real change. A must read for everyone who cares about higher education.” Astra Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“As a teacher and union leader that bargains with the third largest school district on behalf of half a million students and thirty thousand educators, I know first hand how big banks manipulate school budgets to gain profits at the expense of our students and classrooms. In \u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule\u003c\/em\u003e, we hear from visionaries in our movement who show us that a different system is possible, one that allows us to grow and develop ourselves and our communities in ways that won’t result in the immiseration of the many for the benefit of the few. The book also shows how debt is weaponized and racialized to harm the most marginalized in our society, but when we come together to tax the rich and collectivize our institutions, we can provide the public services and accommodations that we all deserve—for free.” Jackson Potter, Chicago Teachers’ Union\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule\u003c\/em\u003e provides labor organizers, workers, and students in higher education the theoretical analysis and organizing tools we need to transform our public higher education system. Revealing how the ‘shadow governance’ of financial capitalism works, this book opens up new terrains of struggle for education justice.” Todd Wolfson, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University and President of American Association of University Professors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLend \u0026amp; Rule \u003c\/em\u003eis simultaneously a fantastic deep dive into a core truth—private finance, free markets, and market competition are incapable of providing a basic public good—and an organizing manual for those committed to protecting and expanding access to higher education.” Donald Cohen, Executive Director of In the Public Interest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688408617053,"sku":"9781945335129","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781945335129_FC.jpg?v=1725898087"},{"product_id":"lend-and-rule-fighting-the-shadow-financialization-of-public-universities-copy","title":"Rojava: A Novel of Kurdish Freedom","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-d83cc406c869939e9713\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1720648912879_3188\" data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA young Kurdish woman discovers a commitment to liberation, both personal and collective, through a harrowing journey to Rojava and the heart of armed struggle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eJînçin is a young professor living in Berlin, born to a Yezedi father who years earlier was shunned and exiled for marrying outside his community, and who late in life makes the surprising and fateful decision to return to his homeland to join the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) in their fight against the Islamic State.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eSearching for answers as to why the father she adored would give his life for such a cause, Jînçin embarks on a clandestine journey through various autonomous territories of embattled Kurdistan—from Başûr [northern Iraq, southern Kurdistan] to Bakûr [southeast Turkey, northern Kurdistan], to the remote mountains of Rojava [western Kurdistan] in northeastern Syria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWith little training and without warning, she is plunged into the freedom struggle as she confronts the extremist threat that faces the Kurds, from bloody skirmishes with ISIS to drone strikes and the clandestine operations and brutal human rights abuses of the Turkish military. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eHer new life as a guerrilla is a bitter and arduous one, but also one of rich discovery. Over months of mournful, intimate, and often-times playful conversations with her comrades, as well  as remarkable acts of resistance and narrow escapes from grave danger, Jînçin finally grasps her place and purpose in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eUltimately, \u003cem\u003eRojava\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of people living and fighting shoulder-to-shoulder who have decided, regardless of the present world order and in spite of the odds stacked against them, to build a society free from discrimination, based on shared dignity and collective autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Form Lu Hsun, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ghassan Kanafani, Mulk Raj Anand, Munshi Prem Chand, national liberation struggles have always been a wellspring of stories and a source of inspiration for storytellers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRojava\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is no exception. Gathered from the font of the Kurdish liberation struggles, Sharam Qawami weaves stories of real people engaged in real struggles into a story of the indefatigable human spirit. Far from refusing to succumb and let their humanity unravel in the face of fascism, militarism, patriarchy, ecological destruction, as well as the breakdown of comradeship and social relationships, the humanity of these characters resurface precisely in moments between despair and determination. Qawami lets the characters tell the story of a century-old struggle with all its contradictions, tensions, and dissensions in the past and present, and through the burning human desire for freedom and justice that holds them together. Whatever the twists and turns in the Kurdish liberation struggle, Rojava will continue to educate and inspire.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRadha D'Souza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and professor of law at the University of Westminster, London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Sharam Qawami has packed much of the history of the Kurdish movement as a whole and of Rojava in particular into this highly readable and inspiring novel. In turns suspenseful, introspective, and even humorous, Quawami leaves plenty of room for nuance and the manifold stories of characters in their multiple dimension and complexity, while avoiding the pitfalls of romanticizing or heroising the history and ongoing struggle of guerilla fighters who dare to imagine and win freedom—all of which makes the novel immensely gripping and worth reading.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThomas Schmidinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and associate professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSharam Qawami\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an Iranian-Kurdish writer and literary critic, born in Sine (Sanandaj), Iran, in 1974. He was expelled from the university for political reasons. Qawami has been actively writing short stories, poetry, novels, and literary critiques for many years, navigating state censors and political exile. He is the author of several books and whose work holds a special place among Kurdistan’s literary class.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis first collection of short stories is entitled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Mother's Most Historical Wound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In 2003, the license for his first novel,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSoveyla\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was rejected by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which he published in Iraq. His second novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBirba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was deemed too radical, and led to his arrest and imprisonment at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Sanandaj Intelligence Prison. In 2007, he published a book of literary criticism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe City of Groups and Bands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in Iran. In 2008, he published his third novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLong Overcoat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Iranian security forces prevented the Persian translation. In 2010, he published a collection of poems entitled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe Are Just Getting Old and Lonely\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e without permission.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSharam Qawami settled in Frankfurt, Germany after being forced to leave Iran in 2010 where he resides to this day. In 2017, he published his first novel written in German, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBrücke des Tanzes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was subsequently published in Kurdish. Sharam Qawami's latest work of fiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRojava\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was written in both Kurdish and German simultaneously. The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran refused publishing permission for the Kurdish and Farsi manuscripts due to their breach of Iranian laws. Quwami decided to publish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRojava\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ein both Kurdish and Farsi without permission. The book is now available in both languages within Iran. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRojava\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his first work to be published in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKiyoumars Zamani\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e(Translator) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a translator of Kurdish and Farsi literature and labor activist born in Sanandaj, Iran, 1977. He has written and translated from English into Farsi widely on topics including financialization, illiberal hegemony, revolution and counterrevolution in Syria, Marx’s materialist conception of history, as well as articles on Rojava, Russia and Ukraine-NATO war, feminist, popular, and working class uprisings in Iran (Jin-Jiyan-Azadi), and Kurdish politics.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePatrick Germain (Editor)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lives in Philadelphia, by way of a small town in Connecticut, Montreal, New York, and Taipei. He graduated from McGill University with a bachelors in Philosophy and East Asian Studies, the latter focusing on Chinese language. An autodidact trained in several languages, including Kurdish, his study of philosophy, cultures, languages, and history is motivated by those bright flashes in time when people transcend the current system and find ways to live more freely and cooperatively.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688408911965,"sku":"9781945335105","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781945335105_FC.jpg?v=1725898196"},{"product_id":"how-to-break-an-addiction-a-method-in-a-manifesto-for-quitting-capitalism","title":"How to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-excerpt\" data-content-field=\"excerpt\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1731333331239_135\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life—and how we free ourselves from it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Break An Addiction\u003c\/em\u003e paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant ‘progressive’ presumption of the need to reform (or ‘save’) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Break An Addiction \u003c\/em\u003erenders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addiction—in capital’s image—and against life and well-being. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the so-called ‘epidemic’ of pain at its root; for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision. We must innovate a new way of being human together in the here and now. Spencer’s first-person narration anchors rigorous and far-reaching research and theory, making for an original and impactful tour through capital’s addiction to crisis and our ability—and need—to break from it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Annie Spencer’s bravery to speak the truth offers us a model and path forward, away from both the ‘suffering addict’ and victim-blaming discourses that surround the opioid crisis, and reminds us that there is so much more behind the death and destruction of illicit opioid use and accidental overdose in the United States. Weaving together personal experiences, socioeconomic analysis, and historical insight, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites us to look at this whole mess differently and reframes addiction and chaotic substance use as a consequence of systemic, calculated, and intentional choices. I hope every classroom across the country reads this book and I hope every harm reductionist embraces it. With its publication, we finally have a book that represents us degenerates, drug users, sex workers, queer people in a way that honors our experiences and celebrates our wisdom.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eZoe Odlin-Platz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Director of Operations, Church of Safe Injection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is brilliant, gutting, miraculous, uncategorizable. It will crowbar-open neglected parts of your brain and set your heart on fire. It is not so much a book about addiction or the opioid crisis, as a book about our pain under capitalism and what it means to be an Earthling. Annie Spencer guides us gently through the centuries, the science, the Marxist theory, the contours of the precipice otherwise known as our times in poetic prose that is easy to understand, that sings, that transports, that reminds us about the best aspects of ourselves, that we have purpose and we have possibility.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOwen Toews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland Falls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An essential corrective to overdetermined narratives of addiction that locate the opioid crisis in either the damaged brains of users or in the unscrupulous hands of doctors, dealers, and pharma reps, Annie Spencer centers a capitalist logic that alienates us from forms of solidarity and violently clears ground for extractive profit. Clear-eyed in their outrage and grief, Spencer promiscuously moves between form, discipline and context in this essential indictment of a global system that keeps us in pain in order to sell us the fix.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBenjamin Haber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“As a mutual aid and harm reduction project committed to sharing resources and redistributing wealth throughout the Kensington community, we think \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break An Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essential reading for anyone involved in similar work. This book humanizes our community members through its analysis, compellingly arguing that addiction is not a moral failing but a failure of a society reliant on capitalism. Dr. Spencer expertly identifies the pernicious ways the capitalist mode of production accumulates wealth through dispossession, especially for those that capital must fail in order to grow.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCommunity Action Relief Project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a mutual aid organization in Philadelphia, PA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Annie Xibos Spencer, whose prose indicates that she could have just as likely been a rapper than a geographer, gives us a scholarly and accessible map of the people, policies, and corporations behind the opioid epidemic as well as our collective social pain. Our space-age materialist tour guide reveals the economic causes of chronic pain and morbidity and reveals that our recovery is predicated on a revolution that is more powerful than the chemicals. Substance users of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chronic existential and physical pain!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCassie Thornton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “This beautiful, forcefully argued book wrestles our understanding of addiction away from pathology and punishment, placing it exactly where it must be: in a history of capital, an extractive economic system which is fundamentally against life. Across these pages, Spencer argues that if our social movements strive, on the other hand, to be for life, then we must without question be on the side of those who have been treated as disposable and discarded as ‘addicts.’ Far from a call to rescue people from drug use, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow To Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals that understanding the political economy of the opioid epidemic’s devastation is a necessary step to saving ourselves from the death-making and deadening forces of capitalism today.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCraig Willse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Value of Homelessness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stellar analysis on the unavoidable poisons in the framework of survival. The wiring of our consciousness, our access to wellness, and our cognitive ability to separate truth from trauma, deteriorates under capitalism, destroying our voice and our purpose. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, studying the opioid epidemic becomes the axis between surviving systemic abuse and accessing self-care.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI3Mjk0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cristy-c-road\" title=\"Cristy Road Carrera\"\u003eCristy Road Carrera\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author, artist; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNext World Tarot, Spit \u0026amp; Passion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “We know that capitalism is about the reign of abstractions, of surplus value over life, of abstract labor over the laboring body. These abstractions are codified and reified in the discipline of economics, which abstract itself from the lives that are wrecked in the wake of the pursuit of profit. What would it mean to think concretely? How can we locate thought in our bodies, in our struggle, and this moment? Annie Xibos Spencer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not just a book on the opioid epidemic and its situation with late-capitalist strategies of exploitation and extraction, but a demonstration of how one can think in-and-through the specificity of one’s situation, one’s struggles, and even one’s pain to produce a common strategy for struggle and liberation.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJason Read\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “This book isn’t just a story about the so-called ‘addict,’ the demon drug of OxyContin, or, even, the most evil people in the pharmaceutical industry (meet the Sacklers!). It is, at its core, a crime story about capitalism: how capitalism makes addicts of all of us but how the true addict is capital itself; how this dead but dominant paradigm destroys personal lives, but also planetary life. Damning as it is, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also deeply funny, generous, personal, moving—and, dare I say, healing! In short: this is the book about the opioid epidemic you want to hold in your hand to make sense of the world and the book you want holding your hand too as you break free.” Mikkel Frantzen, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGoing Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Spencer’s work is a tour de force that effortlessly moves between the personal and the structural and thereby evokes the best of critical theory while at the same time producing an altogether novel approach to the most pressing societal issues of our time.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBjörn Karlsson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, organizer and scholar activist, IT University of Copenhagen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “The ongoing opioid ‘epidemic’ is a racialized class war. It is capitalism feeding on the misery it has created, presenting a gory scene full of murderous contradictions. What would an epic detective story read like if the victim were a whole society, if the killer were a system, and if the sleuth was not a cop but a comrade? This remarkable book offers us a model. It moves with precision, grace, and compassion between theory, testimony, political economy, history, biography, science, and vision. File it under a radical forensics, but rippling with a quiet, queer hope. It not only shows us the bodies, the motive, and the method of this monumental crime. Like the best of such stories, this one invites us to see the glint of solidarity in the grit and darkness, and by that light to find our way through the long night back to day.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMax Haiven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRevenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnnie Xibos Spencer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in North Philadelphia and grew up in Venice, Florida. They studied economics and international studies at New College of Florida and Latin American political economy at La Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Their undergraduate honors thesis on the role of the IMF in the Argentine Peso Crisis earned them a job at the World Bank Institute where they worked as a writer and program evaluator while obtaining a MA in International Trade and Investment Policy at George Washington University. Spencer spent two summers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a fellowship where she studied Bengali language and culture at the Independent University of Bangladesh and learned from feminist-Marxist agrarian movement, Naya Krishi Andolon. Spencer was an active participant in Occupy Wall Street and a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and STRIKE Debt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpencer has worked extensively in mutual-aid harm reduction and organized on the opioid epidemic and against state abandonment of people who use drugs in Maine. In 2020 they completed a PhD in human geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, where they won the 2017 Provost’s Award for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the 2016 Revolutionizing American Studies dissertation award. Spencer was a doctoral fellow with the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change. They have taught economic geography, economics and cultural studies at Hunter College CUNY, the University of Southern Maine, and Bates College. They live in Sweden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42865988010077,"sku":"9781945335198","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781945335198_FC.jpg?v=1731334556"},{"product_id":"revolution-in-these-times-black-panther-party-veteran-dhoruba-bin-wahad-on-antifascism-black-liberation-and-a-culture-of-resistance","title":"Revolution In These Times: Black Panther Party Veteran Dhoruba Bin Wahad on Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLessons for the antifascist fight now and to come rooted in well-learned lessons from Black liberation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolution In These Times\u003c\/em\u003e delivers veteran Black Panther Party member, Black Liberation Army leader, and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad direct in his own words to offer us an analysis of how today's resurgent right-wing agenda is an outgrowth of the ongoing and historical political struggle between the oppressed masses and settler-colonialism of America and Europe. Bin Wahad not only explores how white supremacist politics have recaptured the American imagination but also prescribes a radical grassroots response to counter this ideology and supplant the violent state repression that keeps it in power. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBin Wahad pieces together fight-back strategies against the police and the state through a process of mobilizing in the streets, on the block, and in our communities, while gathering mass through antifascist coalition-building in a manner unrealized since the 1960s and 1970s. In this series of interviews, Bin Wahad grounds us in the now, seamlessly weaving together firsthand accounts of his own and other’s revolutionary past in the history of struggle, alongside lessons for today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDhoruba Bin Wahad \u003c\/strong\u003ewas a leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. Arrested in June 1971, he was framed as part of the illegal FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and subjected to unfair treatment and torture during his nineteen years in prison. During Dhoruba’s incarceration, litigation on his behalf produced over 300,000 pages of COINTELPRO documentation, and upon release in 1990 he was able to bring a successful lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections for their criminal activities. Living in both Ghana and the U.S., Dhoruba continues to write and work promoting Pan Africanism, an uncompromising critique of imperialism and capitalism, and freedom for all political prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKalonji Jama Changa (editor)\u003c\/strong\u003e, an organizer and founder of the FTP Movement, is author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Build a People’s Army\u003c\/em\u003e and co-producer of the documentary\u003cem\u003e Organizing Is the New Cool.\u003c\/em\u003e Cofounder of Black Power Media, Changa serves as cochair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoy James (Foreword)\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of \u003cem\u003eNew Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the After(life) of Erica Garner,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn Pursuit of Revolutionary Love\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the author or editor of numerous other books and articles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Power Media \u003c\/strong\u003eis a Black-radical independent media project that challenges the narrative about Black politics and the Black condition. Renegade Culture, iMiXWHATiLiKE!, RemiX Morning Show, and future programming will deliver the news and information our community and others need to break through today's mainstream propaganda machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eForeword: \u003cstrong\u003eRemember the Panther Resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoy James\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIntroduction: \u003cstrong\u003eThe Storm and the Whirlwind\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKalonji Jama Changa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e1. \u003cstrong\u003eLessons from the Black liberation tradition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack leadership, state repression, and self-defense\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e2. \u003cstrong\u003eTo be Black is necessary, but it ain’t sufficient\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Black encapsulation and appropriation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e3. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Unstoppable power of self-determination\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom “Power to the People” to the Congressional Black Caucus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e4. \u003cstrong\u003eRecollections of a Black revolutionary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, and COINTELPRO\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e5. \u003cstrong\u003eYou cannot reform the police in a police state\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntifascist organizing and community control of police\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e6. \u003cstrong\u003eThe limitations of a hashtag movement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeadership by victimhood and organizing for power\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e7. \u003cstrong\u003eSoldiers’ stories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA conversation with BLA veterans Sekou Odinga, Thomas “Blood” McCreary, and Dhoruba Bin Wahad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAfterword: \u003cstrong\u003eOde to Dhoruba Bin Wahad\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBibi Olugbala Angola\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43009514995805,"sku":"9781945335136","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781945335136_FC_6e46d551-5a3a-4de1-84c6-910e7d07051f.jpg?v=1736645596"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/collections\/common-notions.png?v=1663286887","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/common-notions\/cheryl-rivera.oembed","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}