{"product_id":"community-safety-in-the-fourth-world-war-notes-on-insurgent-conviviality","title":"Community Safety in the Fourth World War: Notes on Insurgent Conviviality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePluto Press, 2026, Paperback, 178 pages, 15 x 25 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are living through what the Zapatistas call the “Fourth World War\"—a war waged by the forces of colonialism and racial patriarchal capitalism—that insists we forget our victories, relinquish our practices of care, and abandon our struggle. For communities targeted and ravaged by policing and militarization, safety is a paramount concern. But where do we turn? To the state, with its warped ideas of security and all its attendant violences?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on more than a decade of “convivial research and insurgent learning,\" alongside struggles across the San Francisco Bay Area, and in dialogue with struggles across the Global South, the authors argue for self-organized, locally rooted insurgent conviviality. This book aims to re-enchant the world through a focus on life; to share and generate tools, strategies, and theorizations that build from below in order to cross-pollinate struggles everywhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eManuel Callahan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnnie Paradise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are part of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA), a small transterritorial collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. CCRA also facilitates Universidad de la Tierra, Califas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“An indispensable handbook for living in the dark times. Study it, engage with it, and most of all, live by it\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Nicholas Mirzoeff, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTo See In the Dark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A combative book aimed at disarming societal violence while weaving new fabrics of life\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Ana Esther CeceÒa, Institute for Economic Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A collective ethnography, a workbook, and a toolkit for convivial research that makes us want to study assembly and create the councils of care\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Gerald Raunig, Zurich University of the Arts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58421933801856,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/51uspMJ22ML._SL1269.jpg?v=1783683526","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/community-safety-in-the-fourth-world-war-notes-on-insurgent-conviviality","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}