“You Can’t Reform Away a War: On Creative Aggression”

In this chapter, Craig Gilmore and Ruth Wilson Gilmore consider the broader global context of attempts to build “cop cities” the world over. The wide-ranging conversation touches on the relationships between forms of repression, lawfare and criminalization, crises of accumulation and legitimation, the politics of critical analysis, and adaptive and inventive simultaneous struggles across space over land access and use.