Confronting Counterinsurgency - Cop Cities and Democracy''s Terrors

How do we struggle within the wreckage of democracy?

List of contents

Preface

Introduction (Joy James)

PART I. Carceral Cities and Civil/Human Rights

1. Atlanta's Black Community Says "Stop Cop Cities!" (Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore, interview by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report)

2. Resisting [Global] Cop Cities and the Militarization of Policing (Liliana, Joy James, Kalonji Jama Changa, interview by Chris Browne)

3. 1492: Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Self-Determination amid Repression (Mohamed Abdou, Ashanti Alston, interview by Kalonji Changa, Joy James)

PART II. Battling Colonialism

4. UN Special Committee on Decolonization: Puerto Rico (Benjamin Ramos Rosado)

5. Oxford Union Address on Genocide, Israel, Palestine (susan albuhawa)

6. Fighting for the Congo (Maurice Carney, Claude Gatebuke, Dr. Ikema Ojore, Brother Passy, Kwame Wilburg, interview by Kalonji Changa and Rev. Keyanna Jones Moore)

PART III. Counter Moves

7. Prisoner Human Rights Movement [PHRM]: 2025 Nobel Letter and the Agency of PHRM (Joy James with Silicon Valley De-Bug Organization)

8. The Abolition of Carceral Schooling (rosalind hampton)

9. Black (Brazilian) Futurity (Andréia Beatriz dos Santos, Hamilton Borges dos Santos, interview by joão costa vargas)

10. When Opportunity Knocks... by Galley of the Streets (kai barrow, Jazz Franklin, Kara Lynch)

Conclusion: Democracy's Terrors and our Endless Resistance (Joy James)

Contributors

About the author

Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes with Pluto include Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons and ENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, Afro-Indigenous Futures.

Product details

• Authors: Joy James
• Assisted by: James Joy (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9780745351544
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-5154-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political activism, Colonialism & imperialism, Social discrimination & inequality, Revolutionary groups & movements, United States of America, USA, Economic systems & structures, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Colonialism and imperialism, War Crimes, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Marxism & Communism, Revolutionary groups and movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice