Reading hospitality mutually Ince, Anthony; Bryant, Helen
Environment and planning. D, Society & space,
04/2019, Volume:
37, Issue:
2
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This article addresses debates in geography regarding the nature and significance of hospitality. Despite increasingly inhospitable policy landscapes across the Global North, grassroots hospitality ...initiatives persist, including various global travel-based initiatives and networks. Drawing from research with these travel networks, we argue that hospitality is fundamentally based on a pervasive, mutualistic sociality in a multitude of forms. Such initiatives, and hospitality more generally, can be better understood in terms of their relationship to these wider mutualities. we therefore use Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist-geographic concept of mutual aid – in conversation with Jacques Derrida and other thinkers – to reimagine hospitality as ‘mutual hospitableness’; systemic, spatio-temporally expansive and underpinned by a conception of self that is constituted through, and gains its vitality from, intertwinement with the other.
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Max Weber y el anarquismo Lowy, Michael; Varikas, Eleni
Estudios sociológicos (Mexico City, Mexico),
01/2024, Volume:
42
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En este artículo serán discutidos cuatro aspectos de la compleja relación de Max Weber con el anarquismo: 1) el profundo interés que manifiesta por algunas ideas y autores anarquistas; 2) el respeto ...que le inspira la Gesinnungsethik o "ética de la convicción" anarquista, a pesar de rechazarla políticamente; 3) el sentimiento profundamente antiautoritario de Weber, que surge y se relaciona con el conflicto personal que mantiene con el patriarcado, y 4) la crítica a los poderes de la burocracia y el capitalismo modernos, que tiene afinidades electivas con la crítica anarquista.
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Aporte a la discusión sobre las formas de gobierno comunales desplegadas en América Latina, específicamente en la comunidad campesina de Catatumbo, Colombia. Bajo el concepto de habilidades comunales ...de gobierno se analizan las formas de trabajo comunitario y gobierno comunal surgidas en medio de las disputas capitalistas por la región y sus recursos en un ambiente de violencia estructural e histórica. También se plantea repensar lo comunal, su relación con el Estado y su autodeterminación.
The paper opens with an introduction of the Chinese anarchist movement, which emerged at the dawn of the 20th century and spanned three different anarchist groups. The author presents its historical ...development and points to the reasons for its impact upon the formation of the Chinese communist movement in the first half of the 20th century. She analyzes the main causes for the movement's later gradual weakening and its subsequent collapse, which took place parallel to the establishment and increasingly wide influence of the Communist Party of China. The article also presents the main reasons for the immense impact of anarchist theories upon the Chinese socialist revolution and shows that anarchist ideational systems, which were widely spread among Chinese students in the beginning of the 20th century, contained a huge number of notions, ideas and concepts that later formed the central elements of Chinese communism. In this context, the author points to the fact that the majority of Western revolutionary theories were first translated into Chinese in the scope of the Chinese anarchist movement. In doing so, the author exposes the notions, ideas and concepts that have later become famous as 'specifically Chinese' elements of Chinese communism.
The Kurdish-led project of democratic confederalism in Rojava (north and north-east Syria) has emerged as an unprecedented experience in eco-feminist and anti-capitalist direct democracy with global ...significance and regional ramifications. There is however virtually no critical engagement with the project's intellectual foundations in the works of Abdullah Öcalan. This paper seeks to address this gap through a sympathetic critique of Öcalan's historical sociology of the formation and dissolution of the state. It argues that there is a theoretical tension in Öcalan's argument. His account of the originary rise of the Sumerian state is 'internalist' while his analysis of subsequent state-formation processes is 'interactive', which highlights the crucial role of external factors and hence implicitly the decisive significance of the condition of 'societal multiplicity'. The paper then draws on Kojin Karatani's 'modes of exchange' based world history to argue that Sumerian state-formation was also fundamentally interactive occurring within and through societal multiplicity. It therefore demonstrates the need for the incorporation of societal multiplicity in the conceptualisation of democratic confederalism and the analyses of its prospects as a non-statist political community. In so doing, the paper also contributes to critical geopolitics and anarchist international theory through underlining the social history of the rise of the state and the international nature of its dissolution.
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Since February 24, 2022, new oppositional groups—Feminist Antiwar Resistance (FAR), Stop the Wagons, Combat Organization of Anarcho‐Communists (BOAK), the Russian Freedom Legion, and others—have ...emerged in Russia. Politically, they range from socialist and anarchist to nationalist or fascist, and in their visual media present a range of anonymous protest subjectivities, from the young feminist female artist to the Molotov cocktail‐throwing anarchist to the army defector. Differences notwithstanding, antiwar groups resemble one another in their use of anonymity and sabotage, departing from the culture of the prewar Russian opposition to Putin. The new antiwar groups seek to demonstrate the existence of a broad decentralized movement, but one that continues, rather than disrupts, historical narratives. This article pays special attention to narratives produced by “railway partisans” currently operating in Russia and Belarus, analyzing how they challenge, through tactic as well as rhetoric, their regimes’ uses of World War II history for state‐building myths. I find that antiwar activists claim that sabotage, vandalism, and other forms of material damage represent continuity—rather than break or rupture—with historic forms of grassroots resistance.
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Soon after its inception in the mid-1970s punk became a global cultural phenomenon, with scenes emerging in places far removed from its points of origin in the US and UK. Today, Indonesia is home to ...some of the largest punk scenes in the world. Scholarship on punk in Indonesia has noted the scenes' international connections but often positions them at the margins of the global punk cultural economy. Utilising ethnographic research conducted with an anarcho-punk collective in the city of Bandung, this article demonstrates that scenes in Indonesia are at the centre of contemporary global punk. Punks create worlds through global connections that transcend and resist the conditions imposed by pervasive power dynamics. This article introduces the concept of 'punk worlding' as a framework for engaging with global punk scenes in ways that privilege insider epistemologies and ethics.
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Selfishness Need Not Be Bad Wu, Zijun; Mohring, Rolf H; Chen, Yanyan ...
Operations research,
03/2021, Volume:
69, Issue:
2
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The price of anarchy (PoA) is a standard measure for the inefficiency of selfish routing in the static Wardrop traffic model. Empirical studies and a recent analysis reveal a surprising property that ...the PoA tends to one when the total demand
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gets large. These results are extended by a new framework for the limit analysis of the PoA in arbitrary nonatomic congestion games that apply to arbitrary growth patterns of
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and all regularly varying cost functions. For routing games with Bureau of Public Road (BPR) cost functions, the convergence follows a power law determined by the degree of the BPR functions, and a related conjecture need not hold. These findings are confirmed by an empirical analysis of traffic in Beijing.
We investigate the price of anarchy (PoA) in nonatomic congestion games when the total demand
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gets very large. First results in this direction have recently been obtained by Colini-Baldeschi et al. (2016, 2017, 2020) for routing games and show that the PoA converges to one when the growth of the total demand
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satisfies certain regularity conditions. We extend their results by developing a new framework for the limit analysis of the PoA that offers strong techniques such as the limit of games and applies to arbitrary growth patterns of
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. We show that the PoA converges to one in the limit game regardless of the type of growth of
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for a large class of cost functions that contains all polynomials and all regularly varying functions. For routing games with Bureau of Public Road (BPR) cost functions, we show in addition that socially optimal strategy profiles converge to equilibria in the limit game and that the PoA converges to one at a power law with exponent
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, where
β
>
0
is the degree of the BPR functions. However, the precise convergence rate depends crucially on the the growth of
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, which shows that a conjecture proposed by O’Hare et al. (2016) need not hold.
In the historical struggle between Marxism and anarchism, Lenin played an important role. In "Anarchism and Socialism," written in 1901, Lenin denounced anarchism as a petty bourgeois ideology. Lenin ...defended this view over the next twenty years, as he fought for Bolshevik hegemony in Russia. This article argues that Lenin's struggle against anarchism was significant for several reasons. First, it clarified the fundamental differences between anarchism and Marxism. Second, Lenin contributed to the victory of Marxism over anarchism, initially, in revolutionary Russia, and after that, within the Soviet era communist movement. Third, Lenin's struggle offers original insights. For one thing, Lenin delineated the revolutionary limitations of anarchism. He identified the circumstances in which anarchism can empower or weaken the working class. Lenin also established the organisation, struggle, and leading role of the vanguard working class party as an independent distinction between Marxism and anarchism, a distinction that needs resurrecting today.
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This article aim discuss the critical to school Geography performed by two important theoretical Russians: Lev Tolstoy and Piotr Kropotkin. Kropotkin, anarchist and humanist recognized sought to ...point out the deficiencies that geography had in regard to its application in elementary school, for his mnemonic or emphasize nationalism and submission to "inferior races". Where Tolstoy, we consider their experience in school project held in his hometown as well as the criticism that the great Russian writer will held Geography textbooks found in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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