# Community Safety in the Fourth World War

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- Authors: [Manuel Callahan](https://www.bookquiver.com/manuel-callahan)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-07-20
- Genres: Social welfare, social policy and social services, Social work, Business and Management

## Description

We are living through what the Zapatistas call the 'Fourth World War'-a war waged by the forces of colonialism and racial 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? Drawing 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, they claim, can be observed through a community safety with five critical elements: community self-defense; fierce care; assembly; knowledge production and self-representation; and autonomous justice. Advancing conviviality as a praxis, as a counterforce to racial patriarchal capital, 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.

## Editions

### Community Safety in the Fourth World War

- Publisher: Pluto Press
- ISBN: 978-07-4535-151-3
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2026-07-20
- Language: en_US