The War on the Social Factory: The Struggle for Community Safety in the Silicon Valley

Author:   Annie Paradise
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
ISBN:  

9780810146655


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   15 April 2024
Format:   Hardback
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The War on the Social Factory: The Struggle for Community Safety in the Silicon Valley


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A toolkit for grassroots opposition to militarization, policing, and ongoing conditions of war in the current conjuncture of racial patriarchal capitalism. A collective ethnography of the mothers and community matriarchs whose children have been murdered by police as they develop and practice autonomous, creative forms of resistance.

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Author:   Annie Paradise
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780810146655


ISBN 10:   0810146657
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   15 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: war on the social factory Part I 1. Mesha and Idriss: Security, Care, and Insurgent Knowledges 2. Oscar and Lovell: The Battle for Fourteenth and Broadway Part II 3. Derrick Gaines: Community Policing and Countercartographies 4. Kayla Moore: Gaia, Escraches, and Direct Action 5. Alex Nieto: Disinformation and the Domestication of War 6. Asa Sullivan: Social Death and the Prose of Counterinsurgency Part III 7. Justice Campaigns 8. Spaces of Encounter A Note on Methodology: Convivial Research, Collective Ethnography, Insurgent Learning

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“Far from utopian, a world without policing is being made every day in the community struggles for care recounted here with such urgency and insight. The War on the Social Factory is an exemplary model of collaborative research grounded in the life-affirming battles against the death-dealing system of the carceral state.” —Dan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey “A powerful indictment of the direct and manufactured forms of state violence that threaten the lives of many Black and brown people in the San Francisco Bay Area, Annie Paradise’s compelling ethnography is also a testament to the critical insights and perseverance of the women activists—mothers and others—who bear witness to it and pursue alternative visions of justice and community safety.” —Eric Porter, author of A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport “As state violence in service of racial patriarchal capitalism escalates—seemingly unabated—The War on the Social Factory offers crucial insights into community resistance. This collective ethnography draws on a rich history of struggle and strategizing toward new horizons of community safety. A must-read for our times.” —Nancy A. Heitzeg, coauthor of Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform


“Far from utopian, a world without policing is being made every day in the community struggles for care recounted here with such urgency and insight. The War on the Social Factory is an exemplary model of collaborative research grounded in the life-affirming battles against the death-dealing system of the carceral state.” —Dan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey  “A powerful indictment of the direct and manufactured forms of state violence that threaten the lives of many Black and brown people in the San Francisco Bay Area, Annie Paradise’s compelling ethnography is also a testament to the critical insights and perseverance of the women activists—mothers and others—who bear witness to it and pursue alternative visions of justice and community safety.” —Eric Porter, author of A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport “As state violence in service of racial patriarchal capitalism escalates—seemingly unabated—The War on the Social Factory offers crucial insights into community resistance. This collective ethnography draws on a rich history of struggle and strategizing toward new horizons of community safety. A must-read for our times.” —Nancy A. Heitzeg, coauthor of Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform 


"""A powerful indictment of the direct and manufactured forms of state violence that threaten the lives of many Black and brown people in the San Francisco Bay Area, Annie Paradise's compelling ethnography is also a testament to the critical insights and perseverance of the women activists--mothers and others--who bear witness to it and pursue alternative visions of justice and community safety."" --Eric Porter, author of A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport ""As state violence in service of racial patriarchal capitalism escalates--seemingly unabated--The War on the Social Factory offers crucial insights into community resistance. This collective ethnography draws on a rich history of struggle and strategizing toward new horizons of community safety. A must-read for our times."" --Nancy A. Heitzeg, coauthor of Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform ""Far from utopian, a world without policing is being made every day in the community struggles for care recounted here with such urgency and insight. The War on the Social Factory is an exemplary model of collaborative research grounded in the life-affirming battles against the death-dealing system of the carceral state."" --Dan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family's Journey"


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Annie Paradise is a member of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, a transterritorial research collective, and a collaborator with the Universidad de la Tierra Califas, an autonomous learning initiative, both based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a researcher with the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab.

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