Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail

＂Replace the State brings new hope for social justice movements by looking to progressive campaigns that have found success by occupying contested sites and taking over the day-to-day governance of threatened places. From resisting environmental abuse to reasserting Indigenous sovereignty, these activist movements demonstrate how people can collectively wrest control over their communities from oppressive governments and manage them with a more egalitarian ethics of care＂-- Provided by publisher.

Sasha Davis is an activist and professor in the Department of Environmental and Sustainability Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire. He is author of Islands and Oceans: Reimagining Sovereignty and Social Change and The Empires’ Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific.