Coöperism 5/13 | READINGS
Balibar, Étienne. “The Expropriators and Expropriated.” Abolition Democracy 13/13, November 27, 2020. https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/abolition1313/etienne-balibar-the-expropriators-are-expropriated/ .
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Coöperism 3/13 | READINGS
Jocelyn Simonson, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (New York: New Press, 2023). Published excerpts of the book can be found here: Essay in Inquest, focusing on being radicalized through collective care; Excerpt in The Nation,… Continue Reading
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chairs The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization(W.W.Norton 2007),… Continue Reading
Étienne Balibar
Étienne Balibar is a French philosopher and a professor at Columbia University. His publications in English include: Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser and al., Verso, 1965); Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Verso, 1988); We, The People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton University Press,… Continue Reading
Derecka Purnell
Derecka Purnell is a lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of forthcoming Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and trainings in community based organizations through an abolitionist… Continue Reading
Omavi Shukur
Omavi Shukur is a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought’s Initiative for a Just Society. He also holds an appointment as an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law. Omavi conducts research at the intersection of criminal law,… Continue Reading
Che Gossett
Che Gossett is a Black non binary femme writer and critical theorist specializing in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought and black study. They received their doctorate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in May 2021. They received a… Continue Reading
Jocelyn Simonson
Jocelyn Simonson is a professor at Brooklyn Law School and the author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Incarceration (the New Press 2023). Professor Simonson writes and teaches about criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and social change. Her scholarship… Continue Reading
André Pettman
André Pettman is a PhD candidate in French at Columbia University, specializing in contemporary French literature. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from the University of Arizona in 2016 with BAs in Psychology and French and with an MA… Continue Reading
Kamau Franklin
Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years, beginning in New York City and now based in Atlanta. For 18 of those years, Kamau was a leading… Continue Reading