Community Safety in the Fourth World War: Notes on Insurgent Conviviality (Vagabonds) - Softcover

Callahan, Manuel; Paradise, Annie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745351514 ISBN 13: 9780745351513

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

We are living through what the Zapatistas call the 'Fourth World War'-a war waged by the forces of colonialism and racial capitalism-that insists we forget our victories, relinquish our practices of care, and abandon our struggle. For communities targeted and ravaged by policing and militarization, safety is a paramount concern. But where do we turn? To the state, with its warped ideas of security and all its attendant violences?

Drawing on more than a decade of 'convivial research' and 'insurgent learning', alongside struggles across the San Francisco Bay Area, and in dialogue with struggles across the Global South, the authors argue for self-organized, locally rooted insurgent conviviality. This, they claim, can be observed through a community safety with five critical elements: community self-defense; fierce care; assembly; knowledge production and self-representation; and autonomous justice.

Advancing conviviality as a praxis, as a counterforce to racial patriarchal capital, this book aims to re-enchant the world through a focus on life; to share and generate tools, strategies, and theorizations that build from below in order to cross-pollinate struggles everywhere.

 

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Manuel Callahan is the co-founder of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA), a transterritorial research collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area with connections to struggles across Southern Mexico. Since 2003, he has facilitated the Universidad de la Tierra, Califas. For over three decades, he has been a primary activator of Acción Zapatista, including work with the Zapatista Autonomy Project. He is both a researcher and co-convener of the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0745351514
• ISBN 13: 9780745351513
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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