Without borders or limits : an interdisciplinary approach to anarchist studies

324 Pages·2013·2.89 MB·English

by  Jorell A. Melendez Badillo

Without Borders or Limits

Without Borders or Limits:
An Interdisciplinary Approach
to Anarchist Studies
Edited by
Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo and Nathan J. Jun
Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies,
Edited by Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo and Nathan J. Jun
This book first published 2013
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-4768-2, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4768-1
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................... ix
Preface ........................................................................................................ xi
Anarchist Studies After NAASN-III: Where Are We Going?
Jesse Cohn
Introduction ............................................................................................. xvii
Nathan Jun and Jorell Meléndez
Part One: Theory and Philosophy
Chapter One ................................................................................................. 3
A Society in Revolt or Under Analysis? Investigating the Dialogue
between Nineteenth-Century Anarchists and Sociologists
Dana Williams
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 37
Kropotkin: Mutual Aid, Sustainability, and the Prospects of Freedom
Jon Bekken
Part Two: Historical Analyses, Methodologies, and Perspectives
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 45
‘We’ is for Anarchism: Construction and Use of Collective Identity
in the Anarchist Press of Fin-de-Siécle Switzerland
Nino Kühnis
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 57
Interpreting, De-constructing, and Deciphering Ideograms of Rebellion:
An Approach to the History of Reading Inside Anarchist Groups in Puerto
Rico at the Start of the Twentieth Century
Jorell Meléndez
vi Contents(cid:3)
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 75
Methods for Tracing Radical Networks: Mapping the Print Culture
and Propagandists of the Sovversivi
Andrew Hoyt

Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 107
Anarchist Culture on the Cusp of the Twentieth Century
Dana Ward
Part Three: Anarchist Manifestations in the Arts, Media, and Culture
Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 125
Guerrilla Communications: Poster Response to the Coup of 1936
Hillary Gordon
Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 141
Across Cardew/Caliban: Towards an Anarchic Assembling
of Revolutionary Phenomena
Eduardo Rosario
Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 153
Anarchist Media and the Crisis of Communication
Jon Bekken
Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 161
Copyrights Must Be Amended
Brett Díaz
Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 165
From Potsherds to Smartphones: Anarchism, Archeology,
and the Material World
James Birmingham
Part Four: Religion, Ethics, and Spirituality
Chapter Twelve ........................................................................................ 177
Luisa Capetillo, Anarchist and Spiritualist: A Synthesis
of the Irreconcilable
Carmen Romeu-Toro
Without Borders or Limits vii
Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 185
Anarchism and Christianity
Abner Roldán
Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 189
Anarchism and Spiritualist Philosophy in Puerto Rico
Daniel Márquez
Chapter Fifteen ........................................................................................ 191
Ethics as an Anarcho-Social Practice
Reynaldo Padilla Teruel
Part Five: Praxis and Contemporary Struggles
Chapter Sixteen ....................................................................................... 197
Bullhorns, Balaclavas, and… Negotiations with Vivisectors?
It’s Just Anarchists in Neoliberal Drag
Jennifer D. Grubbs
Chapter Seventeen ................................................................................... 209
Anthropocentric Tyranny
Gazir Sued
Chapter Eighteen ..................................................................................... 213
Queering (Animal) Liberation and (Queers) Victimhood:
The Reappropiation of Intersectionality and Violence
Michael Loadenthal
Chapter Nineteen ..................................................................................... 241
Dawn of the Dead: A Student Narrative on Collective Classrooms
Fernando Janer
Chapter Twenty ........................................................................................ 259
Utopia is Possible: The Presence of the Libertarian Ideal
in the Revolutionary Theory of the Movimiento Socialista
de Trabajadores (MST)
Raúl Báez
viii Contents(cid:3)
Chapter Twenty One ................................................................................ 275
Anti-colonial Anarchism, Or Anarchistic Anti-Colonialism:
The Similarities in the Revolutionary Theories of Frantz Fanon
and Mikhail Bakunin
Ryan Knight
Editors ..................................................................................................... 285
Contributors ............................................................................................. 287
Index ........................................................................................................ 293
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The essays in this volume are adapted from papers presented at the Third
Annual North American Anarchist Studies Conference (San Juan, Puerto
Rico, January 2012). The editors are grateful to those who organized and
participated in this conference. We are also grateful to Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, and especially our editor, Carol Koulikourdi, for helping to
make this volume possible. Chapter 1 was originally published in Critical
Sociology 39:2 (2012) and is reprinted here with permission. Chapters 3, 4,
7, 10, 19, and 21 were originally published in Theory in Action 5:4 (October
2012) and are reprinted here with permission. Chapter 18 was originally
published in the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Inquiries and
Interventions: Queer Theory and Anti-Speciesist Praxis 10:3 (2012) under
the title “Operation Splash Back!: Queering Animal Liberation Through
the Contributions of Neo-Insurrectionist Queers.” It is reprinted here with
permission.