CES Volume 8, Issue 2 (Fall 2023)

CES Volume 8, Issue 2 critically examines the entrenched relationship between ethnic studies and militarization. Consisting of four articles, a syllabus, an interview, a book forum, a political document, and a translation project, the rich contributions of this issue engage the ways that militarization is enabled by the voracious hunger of racial capitalism, carceral violence, and settler colonial occupation. They also provide antiracist, antimilitarist, and feminist interventions that demonstrate radical forms of solidarity, and that move us toward a demilitarized future. As shared in the introduction, this volume draws inspiration from established bodies of scholarship that have long articulated the structural relations between militarization and racial capitalism, though not always framed as such—including the writing of Raymond Williams and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Lastly, given the moment and time of CES 8.2’s publication, the co-editors dedicate this special issue to the Palestinian people: their unity, their dignity, and their struggle for freedom.