For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis - Paperback

by Alyosha Goldstein (Editor), Simón Ventura Trujillo (Editor)

A collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.

We must, as For Antifascist Futures urges, take antifascism as a major imperative of movements for social change. But we must not limit our analysis or historical understanding of the rise of the right-wing authoritarianism in our times by rooting it in mid-20th century Europe.

For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis takes seriously what is new in this moment of politics, exploring what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the twenty-first century authoritarian convergence by centering the material and speculative labor of antifascist and antiracist social movement coalitions. By focusing on the long history of BIPOC antifascist resistance that has been overlooked in both recent conversations about racial justice as well as antifascist resistance, the essays, interviews, and documents included here make clear how racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule.

By linking a deep engagement, both scholarly and practical, of racial justice movements with an antifascist frame, and a global analysis of capitalism the contributors have assembled a powerful toolbox for our struggles. The editors, widely recognized ethnic and American studies scholars, offer a groundbreaking collection with contributions from Johanna Fernandez, Manu Karuka, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Zoé Samudzi, and Macarena Gomez-Barris, among others.

Author Biography

About the Contributors

Alyosha Goldstein (Author/Editor) is a Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Simón Ventura Trujillo (Author/Editor) is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at NYU..

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, and Chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University..

Kate Boyd is an anti-fascist and antiracist cultural organizer, educator, and public humanities scholar.

Charisse Burden-Stelly , Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology.

Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker. Since 2011, she has been researching the origins of the cinema of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea Bissau as a collective laboratory of decolonizing epistemologies. The resulting body of work comprises films, archival practices, seminars, screenings, publications and ongoing collaborations with artists, theorists and activists.

Subin Dennis is a researcher with the New Delhi office of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and a former journalist.

Daniel Denvir is a Visiting Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University's Watson Institute, a writer in residence at The Appeal, and the host of The Dig podcast on Jacobin Radio.

Johanna Fernández is Associate Professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY) and the host of A New Day, WBAI's morning show in New York.

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and author who works at the intersections of authoritarianism, the visual arts, extractivism, and the environmental and decolonial humanities.

Elspeth Iralu (Angami Naga) is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research and teaching interests include Indigenous geographies and methodologies, visual culture, critical surveillance studies, and planning for decolonial futures. She has worked on community projects for environment, health, and sovereignty with Indigenous nations in India and the US.

Manu Karuka is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, and affiliated faculty with Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. He teaches courses on the political economy of racism, U.S. imperialism and radical internationalism, Indigenous critiques of political economy, and liberation.

Dolly Kikon is a Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology and Development Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, a SRA at the Australia India Institute, and the host of the Melbourne Researchers in Focus Conversation series. Her research focuses on resource extraction, militarization, development, human rights, migration, gender, and political economy.

Léopold Lambert is a trained architect living in Paris. He is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a bimestrial print and online magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies.

Joe Lowndes is a professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and a scholar of race, populism, and right-wing politics.

Allan E. S. Lumba is an assistant professor of History at Virginia Tech. His research explores the historical entanglements between racial capitalism and U.S. colonialisms in the Philippines and more broadly the Pacific from the late 19th century to the present.

Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She centers her work on the effect/affect of racial capitalism/settler colonialism on Indigenous family and community health in North America informed by two generations of Indigenous Feminist scholarship and activism. She seeks to illuminate the ways in which Indigenous life reorganizes and resurges, making intentional life and kin in the face of colonial violence.

Nicole Nguyen is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is focused on race, gender and politics in the Americas, urban geography and questions of citizenship, intellectual history and disciplinary formation, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy and political engagement.

Vaughn Rasberry is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University, where he teaches and researches literature of the African Diaspora.

Zoé Samudzi is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Inquiry, Verso, The New Republic, Daily Beast, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and other outlets. She is a contributing writer at Jewish Currents

Nikhil Pal Singh , a historian of race, empire, and culture in the 20th-century US, is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at NYU, and Founding Faculty Director of the NYU Prison Education Program.

Anne Spice (she/they) is a Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Ryerson University, and an Associate Fellow at the Yellowhead Institute. They have been actively supporting Indigenous land re-occupations since 2015, and their work dwells in the intersection of Indigenous geographies, histories and futures of Indigenous resistance, poetry and art.

Cristien Storm is an anti-fascist and antiracist cultural organizer, writer, and politicized healer.

Alberto Toscano is Professor in Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Visiting Faculty at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She received her PhD in History of Education from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Yazan Zahzah is a community-based researcher and organizer from Southern California. They hold an MA in Gender Studies from San Diego State University and currently work as a lecturer for the California State University system. Yazan's research examines the relationship between war, migration, surveillance, and social welfare programming. In particular, their work dissects the use of progressive rhetoric to further political violence, like with Countering Violent Extremism. Yazan is the Community Organizer at Vigilant Love in Los Angeles, CA. They are a longtime member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, a grassroots organization dedicated to the self-determination of the Palestinian People.