September/October 2016 cover

The force of land defenders

How does suburban sprawl affect geographies of protest and dissent? Practising transformative justice in Black communities. Knowledge building is driven by the struggles of ordinary people. The force of land defenders in Nicaragua. Can visionary fiction build a future of justice? Food sovereignty on the land. Review of Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Angela Davis) and Keywords for Radicals (ed. Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor, A.K. Thompson).

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    If Black Women Were Free: Part 2

    Accounting for the history of transformative justice and determining how it can best be put into practice in non-Black spaces.

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    Extractive Logics

    The capitalist extractive industrial logic sees water and land as collateral. In social justice logic, water and land are life.

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    Visions of the Future

    At the heart of all social movements is imagination. Can the genre of visionary fiction be a conduit for organizing and radically re-envisioning a just future?

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    Of Miners and Land Defenders

    When the Canadian mining corporation B2Gold set up shop in a small Nicaraguan town with the government’s blessing, a local group of land defenders began to organize.

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    If Black Women Were Free: Part 1

    What is transformative justice, and how can it be used in organizing spaces to respond to sexual violence?

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    Politics in Suburbia

    How does suburban sprawl alter geographies of protest and dissent?

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    The Intellectual Labour of Social Movements

    While the intellectual processes of movement building are often associated with charismatic leaders and catchy sloganeering, the knowledge building that changes our social world is driven by the struggles of ordinary people.

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    Land and the Food that Grows On It

    Out of a history of colonial food weaponization emerges a thriving movement of Indigenous food sovereignty.

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    Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle

    In the tradition of word projects, Keywords for Radicals engages with the ways in which language interacts with struggle.

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    Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

    Davis calls for this generation to fight for full substantive freedoms, so that future generations will not be left addressing the same issues.