Tell us about your new book. What is its central project?

To think about riots as a form of class struggle, racialized in the present, and in turn to understand the fall and rise of this particular form of struggle as an opportunity to reflect on the historical developments of capital and class in the overdeveloped world.

What got you started thinking about this set of problems in this way?

The dramatic series of riots that runs from France 2005 to Tottenham 2011 to Ferguson in 2014, not failing to pass through Oakland once or twice.

If you could pair your book with one other text, what would you recommend? Why?

Golden Gulag, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a book about the California prison system and particularly about the hyperincarceration of black people since the 70s as a way of managing surplus populations, which coincide with surplus capital and surplus capacity.

Riot. Strike. Riot was published by Verso. You can find it here.