Jordan T. Camp
Jordan T. Camp is Co-Director of the Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016); co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016); co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of the late Clyde Woods’ book, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2017); and co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond (Freedom Now Books, 2012). His work appears in venues such as American Quarterly; Antipode, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Eurozine; Kalfou; Race & Class; Social Justice; In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, ed. Clyde Woods (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010); Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime, eds. Paula Chakravartty and Denise da Silva (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013); and Futures of Black Radicalism, edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Verso, in 2017). He is currently co-editing David Harvey’s, The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles (with Chris Caruso), completing the monograph, The Long Vendetta: Counterinsurgency and the Survival of Capitalism, among other new projects.
Collected Work
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It’s a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to deadly effect. With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and Law Professor Justin Hansford, Director of New York–based Communities United for Police Reform Joo-Hyun Kang, poet Martín Espada, and journalist Anjali Kamat, as well as articles from leading scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and more, Policing the Planet describes ongoing struggles from New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles, London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond.