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In Defiance of Boundaries

Anarchism in Latin American History

Geoffroy de Laforcade editor Kirwin R Shaffer editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of Florida

Published:30th Nov '17

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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.

A pioneering collection of essays on the world of anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian thinkers in Latin America."" - Barry Carr, coeditor of The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire
 
""An important contribution to a recent trend which sees anarchism not as derived from a European center but as a genuine Latin American phenomenon."" - Bert Altena, coeditor of Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies
 
""Thoughtful, well-researched, and well-written. As a collection, this goes a long way to furthering our understanding not just of anarchism in Latin America, but of anarchism more generally."" - Mark Leier, author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion.

ISBN: 9780813064543

Dimensions: 233mm x 155mm x 22mm

Weight: 580g

388 pages