Collected Work

For over 25 years, the CPCP has convened scholars and organizers committed to producing knowledge for collective liberation. The writings collected here showcase the breadth, rigor, and political imagination of CPCP fellows’ work, from critical analysis to strategies for social change.

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The State. Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois? See All

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle Mobility: Transit and Transformation Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism The State. Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois? Revolutionary Arts Agrarian Questions, Urban Connections, and Planetary Possibilities: Fire, Water, Earth and Air The Agrarian Question Today Mobilizations and Migrations Insurgent Solidarities Consciousness and Revolution II Consciousness and Revolution Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence After Debt: New Forms of Dependency, Obligation, Risk, and Credit Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture Labor/Crisis/Protest

Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia

Anthony Dest More

In 2016, the peace accords between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC–EP) and the Colombian government promised to bring an end to over fifty years of armed conflict. Yet, despite widespread international acclaim and heavy investments in the peace process, war continued. Dissident Peace provides a rigorous reassessment of the terms of peacebuilding through an ethnography of ongoing struggles for autonomy, based on over fifteen years of research and activism in Colombia.

“Indigenous Geopolitics: Creating Indigenous Spaces of Community Self-Protection and Peace Amid Violent Conflict”

Nerve V. Macaspac More

This article examines the social and spatial dimensions of civilian agency amid violent conflicts, specifically focusing on the daily work required from indigenous community members in the upkeep of a peace zone as a space of peace and self-protection amid insurgency and counterinsurgency. Using the concept of indigenous geopolitics as an analytical framework, it argues that indigenous spaces of self-protection require the simultaneous processes of collective refusal of state or non-state violence toward indigenous peoples and the re-inscription of indigenous sovereignty within the nation-state.

“A Defence of the Concept of the Landowning Class as the Third Class: Towards a Logic of Landownership”

FTC Manning More

Although Marx dubbed landowners one of the “three great classes” of modern society, the most prominent Marxian and socialist thinkers of capitalism and land over the past century—from Lefebvre to Massey to Harvey—have implicitly or explicitly argued that landowners are not capitalism’s ‘third class’, and that the social relations of land are marginal or contingent to the mode of production as a whole. Through assessing the work of Marxist geographers, political economists, value-form theorists, and others who have dismissed the class-status of landowners and blurred the line between ground rent and interest, this article argues that the theory of the landowning class is fundamental to the understanding of the totality of capitalist social relations, as well as to developing more incisive analyses of struggles around housing, land, and movement today.