Name: Confronting Counterinsurgency: Rebel Chores, Religion, Revolutionary Love
Start: 2025-07-05T15:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-05T16:30:00-0500

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

W190 B

What are the “rebel chores,” the everyday educational, political, and spiritual commitments, that make revolutionary lovers? Often dismissed, what is the right relationship between spirituality and liberatory struggle? Can one be revolutionary without being religious? Concentrating on her upcoming book, Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy’s Terrors, as well as many of her other recent works, political theorist Joy James engages these and other questions in dialogue with the Highlander Center’s faith-based educator and researcher Adam Vander Tuig.

Speakers

Adam Vander Tuig

Adam Vander Tuig was born and raised in rural Nebraska and currently works as the Faith-Based Educator and Researcher at the Highlander Center in New Market, TN. A recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (PhD), he organizes with Christians for a Free... Read More →

Joy James

Joy James is a political philosopher who works with organizers. Her books include In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner; and Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon. Her edited volumes... Read More →

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