No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries

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Was anarchism in areas outside of Europe an import and a script to be mimicked? Was it perpetually at odds with other currents of the Left? The authors in this collection take up these questions of geographical and political peripheries. Building on recent research that has emphasized the plural origins of anarchist thought and practice, they reflect on the histories and cultures of the antistatist mutual aid movements of the last century beyond the boundaries of an artificially coherent Europe. At the same time, they reexamine the historical relationships between anarchism and communism without starting from the position of sectarian difference (Marxism versus anarchism). Rather, they look at how anarchism and communism intersected; how the insurgent Left could appear—and in fact was—much more ecumenical, capacious, and eclectic than frequently portrayed; and reveal that such capaciousness is a hallmark of anarchist practice, which is prefigurative in its politics and antihierarchical and antidogmatic in its ethics.

Copublished the with Institute for Comparative Modernities, this collection includes contributions by Gavin Arnall, Mohammed Bamyeh, Bruno Bosteels, Raymond Craib, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Silvia Federici, Steven J. Hirsch, Adrienne Carey Hurley, Hilary Klein, Peter Linebaugh, Barry Maxwell, David Porter, Maia Ramnath, Penelope Rosemont, and Bahia Shehab.

Sujets

• Left-libertarianism
• Socialism
• Global
• International
• Intersection

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781629631394
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Praise for No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms
"Broad in scope, generously ecumenical in outlook, bold in its attempt to tease apart the many threads and tensions of anarchism, this collection defies borders and category. These illuminating explorations in pan-anarchism provide a much-needed antidote to the myopic characterizations that bedevil the red and black. As Trotsky should have said, you may not be interested in anarchism, but anarchism is interested in you."
Sasha Lilley, author of Capital and Its Discontents and Catastrophism
"This wonderful collection challenges the privileging of Europe as the original and natural laboratory in which anti-statist ideas developed as well as the belief that anarchism and communism could not intersect in fruitful ways. Drawing on non-Western locations (from Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia) its authors demonstrate how anti-authoritarian movements engaged with both local and global currents to construct a new emancipatory politics proving that anarchy and anarchism have always been global."
Barry Carr, La Trobe University
"Anarchism is back. This magnificent collection of essays coincides with an awakening of interest in global anarchism. No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries succeeds admirably in what it sets out to do, providing an important service to those interested in important but neglected anarchist contributions to politics, art, and theory. A quirky, exciting, and imaginative collection, No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries is bound to become a cornerstone of reference for activists and academics."
Andrej Grubačić, associate professor and department chair, Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies
"Ranging from Kabylie to Oakland, Cairo to Peru, and across the uneven span of a century and a half, these essays register an ongoing and collective effort to de-provincialise our image of anarchism a movement long buried in cliché and caricature by friends and enemies alike. In these pages, the reader will encounter some of the ways in which the dreams of the dead might dispel the nightmares that continue to plague the brains of the living."
Alberto Toscano, reader in critical theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms
Edited by Barry Maxwell and Raymond Craib
Copyright © 2015 PM Press
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Raymond Craib A Foreword
LEARNING FROM INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE: ANARCHISM AND INDIGENEITY
Is there a Native philosophical alternative? And what might one achieve by standing against the further entrenchment of institutions modeled on the state? Taiaiake Alfred
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui The Ch’ixi Identity of a Mestizo: Regarding an Anarchist Manifesto of 1929
Hilary Klein The Zapatista Movement: Blending Indigenous Traditions with Revolutionary Praxis
Maia Ramnath No Gods, No Masters, No Brahmins: An Anarchist Inquiry on Caste, Race, and Indigeneity in India
INTERVENTION Peter Linebaugh Ypsilanti Vampire May Day
A THOUSAND LINKS: TRANSNATIONAL LINES IN AN ANARCHIST AGE
We never live only by our own efforts, we never live only for ourselves; our most intimate, our most personal thinking is connected by a thousand links with that of the world. Victor Serge
Adrienne Hurley Let’s Ditch School and Be Unmanageable
David Porter Kabylia’s 2001 Horizontalist Insurrection
THE HORIZON AT THE CENTRE: NO PERIPHERIES
Social space… is the horizon at the centre of which they place themselves and in which they live. Henri Lefebvre
Raymond Craib Anarchism and Alterity: The Expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile in 1920
Geoffroy de Laforcade The Ghosts of Insurgencies Past: Waterfront Labor, Working-Class Memory, and the Contentious Emergence of the National-Popular State in Argentina
Steven J. Hirsch Anarchism, the Subaltern, and Repertoires of Resistance in Northern Peru, 1898–1922
INTERVENTION Bahia Shehab Spraying NO
THE BLACK MIRROR: ANARCHISM, SURREALISM, AND THE SITUATIONISTS
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognized itself. André Breton
Penelope Rosemont Surrealism and Situationism: An attempt at a comparison and critique by an Admirer and Participant, including a brief look at a seemingly faraway place in space and time; or, King Kong meets Godzilla … How New Thoughts are let loose in the World
Barry Maxwell Blackened Syllabus: Will Alexander’s Figure of the King
Gavin Arnall Masters without Slaves: Raoul Vaneigem’s Détournement of Nietzsche
BLACK, RED, AND GREY: ANARCHISM, COMMUNISM, AND POLITICAL THEORY
All theory is grey. the Devil
Mohammed A. Bamyeh Anarchist Method, Liberal Intention, Authoritarian Lesson: The Arab Spring between Three Enlightenments
Bruno Bosteels Neither Proletarian nor Vanguard: On a Certain Underground Current of Anarchist Socialism in Mexico
Silvia Federici Global Anarchism: Provocations
Barry Maxwell Afterword, Beginning with "A"
Notes on Contributors
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We deeply thank all of the contributors to this volume, who collectively and patiently bore the long process of getting this book together.
And we thank these folks, too:
All of the speakers at the September 2012 ICM conference "No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries," and the conference presenters not included in this book: Banu Bargu, Iain Boal, Glen Coulthard, Andrej Grubačić, and Jolene Rickard. The conference website can be found at http://www.icm.arts.cornell.edu/conference_2012/index.html . Audio and video recordings of the conference sessions are available at http://www.icm.arts.cornell.edu/video_archive_conference_2012.html .
The array of cosponsors at Cornell who helped the conference happen (a deep breath): the Africana Studies and Research Center, the American Indian Program, the American Studies Program, the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Development Sociology, the Department of English, the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, the Department of Government, the Department of History, the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, the Institute for German Cultural Studies, the Latin American Studies Program, the Latino Studies Program, the Near Eastern Studies Program, the Department of Romance Studies, the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, and the Society for the Humanities.
Those who contributed new work to this volume: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Barry Maxwell.
G. Peter Jemison (Heron Clan, Seneca Nation) for the prayer that began the conference.
All of the people who attended the conference, some from faraway places. We should have argued more, no?
The chairs of the conference panels: Barry Carr, Eric Cheyfitz, Sasha Lilley, Barry Maxwell, Satya Mohanty, and Mechthild Nagel.
Jolene Rickard, for permission to use an image from her installation "Fight for the Line" (2012).
Ramez Elias, for the proverb quoted in the Afterword, and for the conference website and poster design.
Molly Kerker, former ICM program coordinator, for helping to organize every aspect of the conference, including a large, loud dinner for the hungry, thirsty thinkers.
Mary Anne Grady Flores and the crew at La Cocina Latina for great food.
Alexis Boyce, ICM program coordinator, for scrupulous and knowledgeable editing of the entire manuscript, for hitting just the right notes of encouragement as we moved toward final assembly, and for corresponding with the contributors, some of whom, like the editors, benefitted from well-timed reminders. What a pleasure it has been to work with Alexis.
All of the members of the ICM: Iftikhar Dadi, Salah Hassan, Fouad Makki, Natalie Melas, Viranjini Munasinghe, and Sunn Shelley Wong (particular thanks to Shelley for the cover photograph the "light writing").
Barry Carr, Andrej Grubačić, Sasha Lilley, and Alberto Toscano for some good words at the right time.
And last but definitely not least, Ramsey "Rock on" Kanaan and everyone at PM Press, as well as John Yates at Stealworks for the great cover.
A FOREWORD
Raymond Craib
There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present.
Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
Collectively, the essays in this volume are undisciplined, exploratory, and wide-ranging. * It is, in one sense then, a collection in the subjunctive purposely so. Neither this volume, nor the gathering out of which it derives, were designed to make declarations or establish orthodoxies but instead to explore across geographic, temporal, and disciplinary limits the pasts, presents, and futures of anarchism. This volume arose from a gathering held on Cayuga Nation land in upstate New York currently occupied by Cornell University. The people who assembled came together to present work, discuss, and argue about anarchism, the Left, and the wo