Where are green anarchist and anti-civilization thoughts in academia? This article offers an encounter between green anarchism and decolonial theory to demonstrate its relevance as an action-oriented ...practice carried out across the world by groups or individuals rejecting domination and subjugation by state, capital, and other forms of power. This article begins with an anecdote to reveal weak points within academic decolonial theory, specifically readings of non-Western civilizations, political ambiguities, and corresponding engagements with the state-corporate nexus. Next, it revisits anti-civilizational anarchism, highlighting theoretical development, conflictive debates, and insights. The article concludes by encouraging anarchist decolonial perspectives that articulate permanent tensions against divisions of labour, hierarchies, statist-colonial organizational forms, and industrial/digital technologies. These mechanisms necessitate careful attention to avoid reproducing coloniality and extractivism under different names.
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Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their ...differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The book closes with a long epilogue, in which Ramet defends liberal democracy, highlighting its strengths and advantages. In this chapter, the author identifies five key choke points, which would-be authoritarians typically seek to control, subvert, or instrumentalize: electoral rules, the judiciary, the media, hate speech, and surveillance, and looks at the cases of Viktor Orbán's Hungary, Jaros?aw Kaczy?ski's Poland, and Donald Trump's United States.
Teresa Mané Miravent (Cubelles, 1865-Perpinyá, 1939) va veure en la pedagogia i l'educació un proces dinamic i transformador capaç de trencar amb les barreres imposades per la societat i obrir camí ...així a Pemancipació personal i col-lectiva. Al llarg d'aquest article, a l'entreacte dels segles xix i xx, es pretén observar i analitzar quina va ser la transcendencia i transnacionalització de les seves ¡dees, evidenciant com la mar es presenta com element clau en l'evolució i transformacjo ideológica, i en quelcom necessari per a entendre la seva trajectória vital. Perfer-ho, se situará com va arribar a convertir-se en un personatge cabdal i es presentará la seva rellevància a través de les dues etapes de La Revista Blanca (1898-1905 i 1923-1939). Com directora d'aquesta publicació, va afavorir ľintercanvi editorial entre diversos indrets del món, sobretot del Mediterran! i de l'Atlántic.
Neste trabalho, procuro aproximar a teoria dos sistemas sociais das discussões mais recentes para uma sociologia relacional, desencadeadas a partir do manifesto de Mustafa Emirbayer. Busco mostrar ...como a ideia de uma 'sociologia relacional' equivale a conceitos emergidos no seio do intento metateórico de Niklas Luhmann de uma teoria de três dimensões de formação sistêmica, a saber: sistemas sociais, interações e organizações. Darei atenção à interação e à dimensão relacional que lhe são constituintes. Busco evidenciar como o ímpeto antiessencialista da sociologia relacional ali se apresenta bem articulado por meio das ideias de sistema, fluxo, comunicação e copresença. Finalmente, discutirei como a diferenciação interação/sociedade pode contribuir para a superação de dilemas teóricos da sociologia relacional como liberdade e determinação, mudança e permanência.
This sympathetic critical analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin's thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new ...light on the nature of anarchist ideology.
This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form ...of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.
The anarchist movement had a crucial impact upon the Mexican working class between 1860 and 1931. John M. Hart destroys some old myths and brings new information to light as he explores anarchism's ...effect on the development of the Mexican urban working-class and agrarian movements. Hart shows how the ideas of European anarchist thinkers took root in Mexico, how they influenced revolutionary tendencies there, and why anarchism was ultimately unsuccessful in producing real social change in Mexico. He explains the role of the working classes during the Mexican Revolution, the conflict between urban revolutionary groups and peasants, and the ensuing confrontation between the new revolutionary elite and the urban working class. The anarchist tradition traced in this study is extremely complex. It involves various social classes, including intellectuals, artisans, and ordinary workers; changing social conditions; and political and revolutionary events which reshaped ideologies. During the nineteenth century the anarchists could be distinguished from their various working- class socialist and trade unionist counterparts by their singular opposition to government. In the twentieth century the lines became even clearer because of hardening anarchosyndicalist, anarchistcommunist, trade unionist, and Marxist doctrines. In charting the rise and fall of anarchism, Hart gives full credit to the roles of other forms of socialism and Marxism in Mexican working-class history. Mexican anarchists whose contributions are examined here include nineteenth-century leaders Plotino Rhodakanaty, Santiago Villanueva, Francisco Zalacosta, and José María Gonzales; the twentieth-century revolutionary precursor Ricardo Flores Magón; the Casa del Obrero founders Amadeo Ferrés, Juan Francisco Moncaleano, and Rafael Quintero; and the majority of the Centro Sindicalista Ubertario, leaders of the General Confederation of Workers. This work is based largely on primary sources, and the bibliography contains a definitive listing of anarchist and radical working-class newspapers for the period.
While moments of historic rupture do usher in radically new conditions for claiming urban space and power, the eras they cleave do not align neatly in the lives of the urban precariat. Rather, they ...overspill and interdigitate, saturating the present. This paper vivifies heterotemporality as an analytic, rather than descriptive, category for urban politics and scholarship. Drawing together Walter Benjamin's radical mode of historical and image‐centric inquiry with Mimi Nguyen's and Dai Jinhua's critiques of recombinant imperial formations, I seek to unsettle the uncritical chronopolitics of rupture that has practically and discursively undergirded dispossession in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Arguing against strategic representations of urban rupture as only a break from the past, I offer instead a dialectical conception of rupture as interacting movements of break and amplification of the past in the present. Advancing ‘archiveology’ as an urban research praxis that activates a heterotemporal, collective urban archive – composed of the built landscape, oral accounts, historical records and filmic representations – shocks the potential of what has been, constellating alternative politics of the present. I suggest that this theoretical‐methodological framework offers critical insights beyond Phnom Penh, especially for other historic‐geographies that have been strategically attenuated via categorical post‐s (e.g., post‐colonial, post‐socialist, post‐conflict).
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Arguing against strategic representations of urban rupture as only a break from the past, this paper offers instead a dialectical conception of rupture as interacting movements of break and amplification of the past in the present. Methodologically, the paper advances ‘archiveology’ as an urban research praxis that actives a heterotemporal, collective urban archive in order to shock the potential of ‘what has been’, for an alternative politics of the present.
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