Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-45451-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

Reihe: Middle East Today

This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism. Anarchism as prefigurative politics has influenced several generations of activists and has expressed the most profound libertarian desire of Southern Mediterranean societies. The emergence of anarchist and anti-authoritarian movements and collective actions from Morocco to Palestine, Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan has changed the focus of our attention in the last decade. How have these anarchist movements been formulated? What characteristics do they share with other libertarian experiences? Why are there hardly any studies on anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean? In turn, the book critically reviews the anti-authoritarian geographies in the South of the Mediterranean and reassesses the postcolonial status of these emancipatory projects. Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean invites us to revisit the necessity of decolonizing anarchism, which is enunciated, in many cases, from a privileged epistemic position reproducing neocolonial power relations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galián, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Towards a History of Southern Mediterranean Anarchism.- Chapter 2. Decolonizing Anarchism.- Chapter 3. Mediterranean Anarchist Meeting. The Unresolved Postcolonial Question.- Chapter 4. Al-Anarkiyya bel ‘Arabiyya. Arabic from theory to practice as the language of anarchism.- Chapter 5. Mapping the South of the Mediterranean.- Chapter 6. Anarchism is still pertinent.

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Galián is a Juan de la Cierva fellowship researcher at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. Her work has focused on decolonization theories and movements in the Middle East. She is part of the Horizon 2020 project RETOPEA: Religious Toleration and Peace, funded by the European Commission.