Emergent Strategy & The Far Right
Channel: Firestorm Books
Date: 2023-10-31

Abolitionist Andrea J. Ritchie introduces her latest book "Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies" in conversation with author Shane Burley, touching on how fractal, decentralized, and prefigurative organizing is essential to the defeat of global fascisms.

In Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, Ritchie explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages of any kind, in which we collectively have everything we need to survive and thrive.

Books by Andrea Ritchie: https://firestorm.coop/catalog/author/12245-andrea-ritchie.html
Books by Shane Burley: https://firestorm.coop/catalog/author/7380-shane-burley.html

Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past four decades. She is co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization and the In Our Names Network, a network of over twenty organizations working to end police violence against Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people. In these capacities and through the Community Resource Hub, she works with dozens of groups across the country organizing to divest from policing and invest in strategies that will create safer communities. Ritchie is coauthor, with Mariame Kaba, of No More Police: A Case for Abolition. She is a nationally recognized researcher, policy analyst, and expert on policing and criminalization. Ritchie lives in Detroit, Michigan.

Shane Burley is an author based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), the editor of No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (AK Press, 2022), and has appeared in a number of other anthologies and journals.