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/ .
Coöperism 2/13 | READINGS
Harcourt, Bernard E. Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Read Chapter 1 here. Avram Alpert, “Cooperative Ideals at the Heart of Everything: On Bernard Harcourt’s Cooperation,” Los Angeles Book Review, Sept. 7, 2023.
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
Coöperism 1/13 | READINGS
Primary Readings: Akbar, Amna. “The Fight Against Cop City.” Dissent (Spring 2023). https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fight-against-cop-city/. Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. 1985. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism. James, Joy, and Kalonji Jama Changa. “The Rubik’s Cube of Cop City.” Inquest, July 18, 2023.… Continue Reading
Coöperism 13/13 | BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adams, Herbert B., ed. History of Coöperation in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1888. Akuno, Kali. The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy. n.d. https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackson-KushPlan.pdf. Akuno, Kali, and Ajamu Nangwaya. Jackson Rising: The Struggle… Continue Reading
Introduction to Coöperism 13/13!
By Bernard E. Harcourt What are the most promising forms of cooperation that can be harnessed to build a more sustainable, equal, and just society? What can we learn from existing forms of cooperation—such as worker cooperatives, mutual aid, revolutionary… 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