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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Anarchism
In this groundbreaking collection of essays, anarchism in Latin
America becomes much more than a prelude to populist and socialist
movements. The contributors illustrate a much more vast,
differentiated, and active anarchist presence in the region that
evolved on simultaneous-transnational, national, regional, and
local-fronts. Representing a new wave of transnational scholarship,
these essays examine urban and rural movements, indigenous
resistance, race, gender, sexuality, and social and educational
experimentation. They offer a variety of perspectives on
anarchism's role in shaping ideas about nationalism, identity,
organized labor, and counterculture across a wide swath of Latin
America.
The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and
principles that connect with the 'soul' of left-libertarianism,
although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist
tradition. From practices of mapping and land-use planning to local
protests and transnational social movements, this book explores a
variety of case studies that trace the influences of, and
affinities between, anarchist and geographic practice. The chapters
explore the vast possibilities of inventive, exploratory
libertarian practices from contemporary and historic contexts
around the globe. They examine the ways in which various spatial
practices have been compatible with left-libertarian principles,
and explore the extent to which anarchists, neo-anarchists and
libertarian autonomists have animated these waves of protest and
forms of resistance. In an age that is desperately in need of
critical new directions, this volume shows that a serious (re)turn
toward anarchist thought and practice can challenge and inspire
geographers to travel beyond their traditional frontiers of
geographical praxis.
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