The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America
The Art of Organising Hope
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXVI, 282 pages
978-1-349-32298-5 (ISBN)
Description
The author contests older concepts of autonomy as either revolutionary or ineffective vis-à-vis the state. Looking at four prominent Latin American movements, she defines autonomy as 'the art of organising hope': a tool for indigenous and non-indigenous movements to prefigure alternative realities at a time when utopia can be no longer objected.
Reviews / Votes
"The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America offers an invaluable starting point for thinking about these challenges and for confronting the limitations of fatalist critiques or naïve optimism that too often pervade debates on autonomy. More than that, it offers an open blueprint for thinking about and acting upon the idea that, within a concrete reality that continues to be overwritten by the hopelessness of neoliberalism, the seeds of hope still remain." (Adam Fishwick, AntipodeFoundation.org, October, 2016)
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Series
Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XXVI, 282 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-32298-5 (9781349322985)
DOI
10.1057/9781137316011
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€85.59
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Person
Ana C. Dinerstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, UK. She has published extensively on Argentine and Latin American politics, autonomy, subjectivity, labour, social and indigenous movements, emancipatory struggles and the politics of policy. Her main publications include
The Labour Debate
(2002),
La Ruta de los Piqueteros. Luchas y Legados
(2010) and
La política de la Esperanza en America Latina
(2013).
Content
1. Embracing the Other Side: An introduction PART I: THEORISING AUTONOMY 2. Meanings of Autonomy: Trajectories, Modes, Differences 3. Autonomy in the Key of Hope: Understanding Prefiguration PART II: NAVIGATING AUTONOMY 4. Organising Negation: Neoliberal Hopelessness, Insurgent Hope (Mexico) 5. Shaping Concrete Utopias: Urban Experiments (Argentina) 6. Resisting Translation: Indigenous-Popular Resistance (Bolivia) 7. Venturing Beyond the Wire: The Sem Terra's Dream (Brazil) PART III: RETHINKING AUTONOMY 8. Confronting Value with Hope. A Prefigurative Critique of Political Economy 9. Living in Blochian Times: Opening Remarks