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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Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice
This co-edited collection examines the entanglements of memory, place, and nature in the face of global socioecological transformation. Speaking from a range of disciplinary perspectives and drawing on different epistemological and methodological approaches, the chapters examine the plurality of climate change geographies.
“Beyond the Anthropocene Ark Ecology of Climate Havens and Spaceships”
This discussion of Malcom Ferdinand’s Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (2022) argues that Ferdinand maps the double fracture constituting modernity haunting its socioecologies—one fracture characterized by racialized social inequality, the other by intersecting ecological crises.
“Gender-Responsive Migration Governance? The Gendering of Migration and Border Control on an International Scale”
This paper analyzes the institutionalization of gender issues in the political field of migration and borders, reconstructing the production of an institutional framework, categories of intervention, and processes of subjectivation of refugee and migrant women. Through a documentary analysis of a set of reports, guides and memoirs produced in the context of global governance institutions between the 1980s and 1990s, it shows that the gender governance and migration governance have been intertwined into a novel form of control over populations in movement: the metabolization and instrumentalization of the “gender perspective” in migration and border control policies and practices.
“Critical Race Theory and Abolition as a Framework for Radical Analysis: Lessons from the No Police in Schools Campaign”
This article brings Critical Race Theory (CRT) and abolitionist theory into conversation, exploring their combined potential as an analytical framework for understanding reform, social change, and retrenchment. Using the Greater Manchester-based No Police in Schools campaign as a case study, I analyse Manchester City Council's reported decision to remove School-Based Police Officers – a move first celebrated by some as a victory but later found to be fraught with complexity.
“Urban Housing Provision in Peripheral Capitalism: The Future of the Past in Brazil”
Housing provision has been widely studied in Brazil since the mid-20th century. These studies have been part of a specific field as well as a more general discussion on urbanization and development on the periphery of capitalism, in a country that was able to industrialize without achieving international autonomy. This research contributes to this discussion by demonstrating the broad universe of house production and circulation that is still little understood by studies on Brazilian housing, as well as the relevance of this universe for enriching an analytical model on housing provision. In order to do this, I evaluate interpretations of housing in Brazil in consonance with the structure of housing finance, to verify that the sources of housing funding shed light on processes and markets that have not been explored much in national literature. The analysis of fiscal resources, through public spending on housing and urban services and infrastructures, support a better understanding of housing and cities in contemporary Brazil. This effort is also relevant because, by analyzing specific forms of housing provision through the production of space, one can explore particularities about the way in which housing is produced and circulated, thus supporting a broader understanding of the functioning of capitalism and some specific modes of capitalist accumulation. Current specific forms of housing provision can be seen in relation to the socio-spatial product of a Brazilian past, which is last century’s industrialization.
“Front Lines: Peter Weiss’s Literature of Revolt”
This review of the English translation of Weiss's modernist epic The Aesthetics of Resistance argues for its relevance for organizers thinking about the current crisis. Experimental and dialectical in form, the novel imagines the conversations of actual figures in the German anti-Nazi underground as they try to figure out what to do at each step in the catastrophe. Staging debates about politics, history, consciousness, works of art, and the functions of writing, the characters grapple with understanding each other’s motivation to act in order to orient themselves to move together politically.