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Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
Amidst the flurry of recently published books on the dynamics of contemporary Latin American politics, Ben Dangl's Dancing with Dynamite stands out for his reporting on social and political change from the vantage point of social movements themselves. In this polemical book, Dangl studies subaltern struggles vis-à-vis states, drawing primarily from targeted interviews with social movement a...
Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces
One could, if one had confined one's horizon to North America in 2010, be forgiven for the (mistaken) impression that a serious project aimed at the concrete negation of the state was of little relevance in today's world-historical political conjecture - that the kinds of politics that describe themselves as anti-state or anarchist in, for instance the United State, are, at their best,...
Horizontalism
Horizontalism is not just the first English-language account of the most recent social movements in Argentina. It is also an in-depth exploration of the ideas—prefigurative politics and direct democracy—driving those movements. Editor Marina Sitrin, considers a variety of topics in turn, including horizontalism, autogestion and recuperated factories, autonomy, creation, power, feminism, a...
Teaching Rebellion
The popular rebellion that broke out in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the summer of 2006 caught the attention of people around the world even before the federal police moved in to crush it violently. For half a year, Oaxaca City and many of the surrounding towns were effectively self-organized through popular assemblies. A broad coalition of teachers, indigenous, students, artists,...
Price of Fire
Things across Latin America look like they've heating up in the last five years to the breaking point. After decades of military rule, right-wing forces, banana republics, and domination by foreign companies, governments in Latin America crushing left-wing movements and people fighting the old orders of extreme wealth and extreme poverty, it really looks like those days are through. Social...
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